So-Young Park Blog #5

The article that I chose is titled “ Japan’s Economic aftershock”, published by John Berthslsen. The article narrates that after two nuclear power plant were broken, the after effects not only rise the issue of global warming and earth pollution, but also both economically and financially affect people in the world. John labeled that as the aftershock of the accident, the industry of Japan has dropped drastically as in 1960s, the period when Japan experienced financial or economic panic resulting people to lose their jobs and suffer from. John adds numeral quotations such as “The hollowing out of Japanese industry was launched 15 years ago,” and “The recession has continued for 15 years and with the bad effect of the strong yen for these years. But, the earthquake was one of the triggers for Japanese companies to invest overseas. I expect that more companies will go out of Japan in the next three years.” from experts to support the phenomenon. However, although the author contributes several quotations from other sources to clarify Japan’s aftershock has affected the world, still, the sources John applies to strength the article is not valid. He doesn’t insert charts or graphs and put experiments, which evidently explain the influences of the disaster, happened in Japan, to clearly show the differences. Thus, the article shows that it possesses less power to convince the audience or the readers.