and do what we can, airlines are cashing in. How utterly sick and disgusting is that! What about all those desperate Japanese who don't have homes to go to. It's so awful and heart wrenching.

Fares have not gone up, Talula. The airline companies cannot operate aircraft without incurring some cost; why do you begrudge them a perfectly legitimate income? They are not trawling for customers; customers are coming to them. More than can be handled, in fact, although certain airlines have doubled the usual number of flights. Don't forget that the Japanese government -- which has not been honest with respect to the true extent of the damage and the true nature of the risk -- does control the number of flights that are permitted to enter Japanese airspace. The Japanese would not have a single problem curtailing the number of flights in and out if it would minimize the risk of panic among its citizens who may not have the option of leaving. What a swell bunch!

Your evident hatred of the Japanese is palpable! The ordinary Japanese people have the admiration of the world for the way they are reacting to one of the worst catastrophes the world has seen. You are one of the very few who deride them. There are men who are risking their lives heroically working on ways to quell the situation at the crippled power stations and your reaction is that Japan should be tried for war crimes. What on earth is wrong with you? Any US help would be appreciated as is the help from many countries already and currently given but it is less than certain US help would result in a better outcome than the efforts expended by the Japanese. There would be very few countries whose people would react to this catastrophe as Japan. One only has to hark back to the behaviour of New Orleans residents after hurricane Katrina to compare the human qualities of the two peoples.