On Sun Jun 15  1:25 , ''CuSO4' Yung' <cuso4@cuso4.com> sent:
>In her blog, Momoi said since she spent many hours in Akiba in her
>early part of the live (read : not lately), she went to offer flowers
>in front of SoftMap.

Haruko?

>When she was offering flowers and praying for the dead, many media
>people took photos/videos of her.  She asked them not to do that
>several times, but the media kept pressing, and asked if she was the
>victim's family or friend.  She had to run away from the scene, and
>some of the media still chased her for a couple of blocks.
>
>IMHO, I think the media will not keep pressing her with questions if
>she did not ask them not to photographing/videoing her.......

Still, with the laws and rules about privacy for celebrities, that sort of 
thing
is inexcusable, even if she had been a family member. I'm guessing we're ta
lking
about the tabloid press.

>PS. Tokyo government is considering to close the Sunday walker's
>paradise for good.  Police has announced this Sunday's one is
>definitely not happening.

I read that it'll be closed until end of July at least.

>PS2. During this morning's Iwate-Miyagi Inland M7.2 Earthquake,
>Stephen and I was in Hyogo-prefecture, and we did not feel anything.
>We only knew what had just been happened when all TV stations
>immediately switched to live broadcast of the earthquake.

And it seems the early warning systems actually worked. Interesting to see 
the
popups on TV warning of an imminent earthquake.