So the missiles (or “satellites” or “debris” or just whatever that they’re calling them right now) have put the scare into some Japanese people, as they’re calling about and some even buying bomb shelters now.
Hmmm. Imagine that.
Once bitten, twice shy? No more messing around is more like it, now that North Korea is sending up god-knows-what over there. Osaka-based Shelter Co (awesome name, by the way-it gets right to the point about what is sold) said that they received 12 orders for “household nuclear shelters” shelters lately. That may not sound like much, but company president Seiichiro Nishimoto is pretty impressed, saying that this number is a record for the 30 years he has been in business. On top of that, he says that he’s received about 150 inquiries on shelters.
“Japanese want to be prepared. I expect the number of orders to increase,” said Nishimoto.
The Daily Telegraph says that most of the orders for the 2.8 million yen shelters have come from Akita and Iwate prefectures, both of which sit right under the missile path. Better safe than sorry, right guys? Still, if 12 orders is a record for your business of 30 years, isn’t that considered a failure?
History teaches us all something very important: monsters are out there and they will kill you. Wait, wasn’t it history that said there were dragons flying around and sea monsters at the ends of the Earth?