breakwater – SoraNews24 —Japan News— https://soranews24.com Bringing you yesterday's news from Japan and Asia, today. Mon, 03 Oct 2016 14:01:01 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1.4 https://soranews24.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/3/2020/05/en_rocket_1024.png?w=32 breakwater – SoraNews24 —Japan News— https://soranews24.com 32 32 176746664 Four junior high school boys admit to pushing two people fishing off of a breakwater in Osaka https://soranews24.com/2016/10/03/four-junior-high-school-boys-admit-to-pushing-two-people-fishing-off-of-a-breakwater-in-osaka/ https://soranews24.com/2016/10/03/four-junior-high-school-boys-admit-to-pushing-two-people-fishing-off-of-a-breakwater-in-osaka/#comments Mon, 03 Oct 2016 14:00:58 +0000 http://en.rocketnews24.com/?p=348395

“We wanted to enjoy watching their drowning faces” was part of their motive.

Between 6 – 7 a.m. on September 19, four 12- and 13-year-old male junior high school students shoved two people who were fishing, one after the other, from a breakwater located in Osaka Prefecture’s Mokuzai district of Kishiwada City and Tadaoka into the sea. Both victims were also natives of Osaka; the first was a 13-year-old male student from Izumi City, and the second was a 56-year-old company employee from Yao City. While the two of them were able to climb back onto the breakwater by themselves, the latter sustained a lower back injury which took two weeks to completely heal.

On the 30th, prefectural police reported that they had taken the boys into protective custody and sent three of them to a child consultation center. Their acts of assault was caught on a local convenience store security camera and all of them have admitted their roles in the crime, testifying, “We wanted to enjoy watching the moment they fell into the sea and their surprised and drowning faces.”

Sources: Sankei West via Hamusoku
Top image: Flickr/chuo_i ci

]]> https://soranews24.com/2016/10/03/four-junior-high-school-boys-admit-to-pushing-two-people-fishing-off-of-a-breakwater-in-osaka/feed/ 0 348395 2171902248_32ebedaf85_b 2171902248_32ebedaf85_b Japan Set to Erect 7.5 Meter Middle Finger Salute to Incoming Tsunamis https://soranews24.com/2012/09/04/japan-set-to-erect-7-5-meter-middle-finger-salutes-to-incoming-tsunamis/ https://soranews24.com/2012/09/04/japan-set-to-erect-7-5-meter-middle-finger-salutes-to-incoming-tsunamis/#comments Tue, 04 Sep 2012 11:24:52 +0000 http://en.rocketnews24.com/?p=17192 Needless to say, Japan has had their fill of Tsunamis.  After the devastation of the 11 March Tohoku earth quake, the nation would like to give a huge FU to any future tsunami coming our way.

And so, three huge Japanese contractors are working on a special surprise for the next tsunami that tries to hit the shores of Wakayama prefecture in the form of a gigantic steel column. If successful it would be so poetically beautiful… if the Japanese only knew the beauty of the middle finger.

First let’s get through the technical details. Starting from Shimotsu Port in Kainan City, Wakayama, a revolutionary wave breaking system will be implemented this October by Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Obayashi Corp, and Toa Corp.  A 10 meter section of breakwaters will be built by next February in the first stage of a 230 meter defense perimeter around the Wakayama peninsula, a high risk area for tsunamis.

The problem with traditional breakwaters is that they get in the way of shipping routes and are generally pretty ugly.  But these breakwaters are telescoping steel pipes that lie nestled under the ocean floor. When a tsunami warning is raised these columns can pneumatically spring up to 7.5 meters above sea level within 10 minutes.

That sounds good, but there is one problem with this project. Its 730,000,000 yen (US$9.3M) price tag and 2020 completion date aren’t so bad considering the scope of it. It’s just, well, from the looks of their plan the pipes will come out simultaneously.

That’s great, but… ah shucks, I’d like to humbly ask these companies that the pipes rise up from the center out, creating a middle finger orientation.  It shouldn’t be such a logistical problem, just a matter of timing.  Unfortunately in Japan the middle finger has no special meaning.

I can’t help but remember the photos of that tsunami hitting shore last year.  So, the thought of a photo of a human engineered wave breaker in the shape of a defiant steel middle finger in front of that tsunami would be one hell of a satisfying image.

Source: Mitsubishi Press Release via Asahi Shinbun (Japanese)

▼Diagram of a single pipe

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