After earthquake and tsunami in Japan, anyone for shopping?

Five days after the earthquake, the Tokyo area is having a power crises and blackouts are looming. Which brand name stores choose to close to conserve energy, and which ones stay open to try to hock their goods? Ian goes to Ginza to find out.

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News & Politics

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• Tokyo
• Japan
• earthquake
• tsunami
• Ginza
• luxury
• goods
• brand names
• documentingian
• subway
• power outages
• blackouts
• consumer electronics
• ian thomas ash

[BizBony]

What kind of camera do u use?

[DocumentingIan]

@BizBony Thanks for watching. We use a variety of cameras, depending on the situation. When I filming myself (like in this video) I use a small SONY handicam with a wide lens on it. When I am working with my camerman, we usually use a SONY Z1. I also have some smaller cameras like the SAL by Amadana that are easy to use.

[ilovemovie1968]

your conclusion is great

[DocumentingIan]

@ilovemovie1968, I was a bit worried about being on a soapbox too much, but I was just upset that we all have the heating off in our houses and some of those stores had the heating on and the doors open- unbelievable!

[timerty]

This is the type of videos I am interested to see in Tokyo right now regarding the crisis, like the videos showing food supply in supermarkets. But no video has yet to show the restock of rice or bread!

[DocumentingIan]

@timerty Thanks for your comments. I actually went out yesterday and was going to film the supermarkets for you, but as the woman in my video ("Despite nuclear fears, we can still smile") says, we aren't fully restocked yet. I will do that as soon as they are.

[BizBony]

@DocumentingIan Thanks for reply! And BIG thanks for sharing these videos with us

[buckace77]

HELLO IAN. YOUR VIDS ARE GREAT AND SO INFORMATIVE. YOU NOT ONLY GIVE YOUR OPINION BUT TRY TO GET PEOPLE TO TALK AND EXPRESS THEIR THOUGHTS ON CAM. MOST OF ALL YOU ARE VERY POLITE IN TALKING TO THEM. I HOPE TO WATCH MORE OF YOUR DOCUMENTARIES. PEOPLE NEED TO SEE THIS.

[ilovemovie1968]

Media in HK said most large Int'l corp expatriate executives from japan are here in HK now, they came to stay at our 5-6 star hotels after they heard Japan may not be able to overcome the crises (both earthquake and radidation), these large corp. just use other cities as their earning machine providing peole with their branded appearls, however once they found out this may not be working now, then they just left. Have they ever thought about how to reciprocal to the people in Japan?

[timerty]

The store have got to lend a hand and support the economy. And beautiful goods can't sparkle without good lighting. With so many people leaving Tokyo, food and power will not be so scarce.