Play For Japan: The Album helps rebuild Japan, available now

@Altair619 crap music? these guys are the biggest names in video game music and are well loved by millions of people. GG

@Frostblade10 Europe isn't covering Japan much either. It's old news now, not that this is a bad thing (no more disasters and mass deaths to report, just slow but steady rebuilding).

@Frostblade10
The news what current and popular. People just don't care much about it anymore. The incident won't disappear, however, and many lives were changed. Honestly, Haiti needs help too and nobody cares about Haiti anymore. It sounds cruel, how people care like it's a fad. ...but it's life.

@Hank Hill

Nonetheless, not enough reporting is being done about this catastrophe. There's thousands of tons of sea water that is incredibly radioactive and needs to be disposed of somehow.

Even worse, now very high levels of radiation are in the air because when they stupidly spray water on to the melted-down fuel cores and reactors, it creates radioactive steam which becomes air born.

I'm disgusted at how our government has done nothing to prepare us for radioactive winds barreling towards the West coast of the United States.

They haven't even done much to prepare us for possible radioactive fish.

"We have 20 nuclear cores exposed, the fuel pools have several cores each, that is 20 times the potential to be released than Chernobyl..."
http://paulflynnmp.typepad.com/my_weblog/2011/06/hidden-fukushima-news.html

"... 45 percent of children in Fukushima Prefecture checked by the prefectural and central governments in late March experienced thyroid exposure to radiation..."
http://search.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/nn20110705x2.html

"...experts estimate the coastal areas hit by the massive wave account for about a fifth of Japan's annual catch."
http://www.king5.com/news/environment/Fish-with-radioactive-levels-caught--119297564.html

Our government is deciding for us that we can't handle this kind of news. They are putting us in a huge amount of danger by not telling us what we need to know and how we can prepare. This problem won't just go away and everything will not be just grand.

@The Only Girl Good comment, see how there is no coverage on Haiti anymore? The news is like fads, things come and go extremely quickly, also like multiplayer communities for lots of games.

@Hank Hill not old anymore...another quake just hit today with more tsunami warnings

@Frostblade10 You're cropping out more important details to make it worse than it seems. Example...."Around 45 percent of children in Fukushima Prefecture checked by the prefectural and central governments in late March experienced thyroid exposure to radiation, although in all cases in trace amounts that didn't warrant further examination,"

In other words, it's nothing to worry about. That's just one example, read the articles more than just one sentence. At least you liked sources though.

@Frostblade10 ... because the media, as much as they love fearmongering anything, can only scare most people so long over something that hasn't even killed anyone. It is a long-term issue for Japan, that along with the more significant actual physical damage from the quake/tsunami, will take a while to rebuild. So yeah, buy this album.

Parts of Japan remain contaminated by Fukushima (namely, parts of Fukushima Prefecture), which while not killing anyone outright, means people have to stay away generally until cleanup or enough time for the radioisotopes to decay / disperse (people do live in Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Everything changes and dies, including radioisotopes.)

This negatively impacts the Japanese economy, which in turn negatively impacts our economy. So yes, it is still an issue and affects Americans, but isn't terribly dramatic and exciting compared to a hot chick on trial for murder in front of an incredibly dumb jury or something, or complaining about how NASA and Obama were stealing all of the nice rich people's money for some science fiction scam.

@Dao Jones
iTunes exclusive tracks are a standard in the music industry. It happens with many albums, especially collectors editions or greatest hits compilations or live albums. It's not exclusive to this one CD, I assure you ;)

@B0HICAH
Which I understand but for a charity album? All proceeds go to charity so the bonus of going to i... Nevermind. It's so silly I just give up.

@Cobra4455
Your post was oddly constructed but I think I got the message. "This type of charity which helps society is better than giving hospitalized kids video games." Your heart's in the right place.

@The Only Girl

Ya, I got to stay off the comment section when on my phone I tend to rant incoherently.

@(Unverified)
Because Yoshitaka Amano.