April 9, 2012
The Fukushima crisis “could have been prevented” if TEPCO had carried out simple preventive measures [EPA] Tokyo, Japan - The discovery of radioactive contamination in “shiitake” mushrooms grown in Manazuru town, Kanagawa prefecture, some 300 km away from the crippled Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant, has raised public clamour for compensation. Soon after the discovery, on [...]
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March 13, 2012
A year on, frustration dominates in Fukushima Those living closest to damaged nuclear plant deal with daily uncertainty, a year on from the earthquake and tsunami. D. Parvaz Last Modified: 11 Mar 2012 14:36 Email Print Share Send Feedback Fukushima City, Japan - In Fukushima Prefecture, home to the nuclear plant damaged in the March [...]
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February 28, 2012
Japan leaders ‘played down nuclear crisis‘ Investigation reports that government covered-up true scale of Fukushima disaster, and considered Tokyo evacuation. Japanese leaders did not know the extent of the damage in the wake of the nuclear crisis after the massive quake and tsunami hit the Pacific nation even as they tried [...]
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January 25, 2012
Experts say Japan’s tsunami disaster increased reliance on fuel imports due to the loss of nuclear power [Reuters] Tokyo has reported its first trade deficit in more than three decades, explaining the downturn as the result of last year’s devastating earthquake and tsunami that caused an energy crisis, and weak global demand for Japanese exports. The $32bn [...]
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January 24, 2012
Japanese Delegation Wants the U.S. Out of Okinawa By David Swanson http://warisacrime.org/content/japanese-delegation-wants-us-out-okinawa A 24-member delegation from Japan is in Washington, D.C., this week opposing the presence and new construction of U.S. military bases in Okinawa. Participating are members of the Japanese House of Councilors, of the Okinawa Prefectural Assembly, and [...]
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January 14, 2012
Fukushima Fallout: Thousands Protest Against Nuclear Power in Japan – Common Dreams staff Thousands of demonstrators hit the streets of Yokohama, Japan on Saturday afternoon calling for an end to nuclear energy in Japan after the Fukushima March 11, 2011 disaster that sparked the planet’s worst atomic crisis since Chernobyl. The protest began a [...]
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January 6, 2012
Japanese investigators have been exploring the extent of the accounting irregularities [Reuters] Whistleblower Michael Woodford has said that he will sue Olympus over his sacking as its chief executive after a “depressing” lack of support from Japanese institutional shareholders scuppered a bid to get his old job back. Woodford said on Friday that he was ditching his campaign [...]
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January 4, 2012
“Fukushima,” writes Wasserman, “has taught us that as long as reactors operate, the apocalyptic clock is ticking.” 2012 Is the Year to Finally Bury Nuke Power by Harvey Wasserman The year 2012 has opened with news that Fukushima’s radioactive cloud may already have killed some 14,000 Americans, according to a major study just published [...]
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December 26, 2011
Cordula Meyer/ DER SPIEGEL For months, the 21,000 residents of Namie have lived in trailers and shelters across Japan. By abandoning their homes, they unwittingly fled directly into the path of Fukushima’s radiation cloud. As worried and angry as they may be, most just want to return home. Tamotsu Baba is mayor of [...]
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December 23, 2011
Fukushima Nuclear Crisis Far from Resolved Japan Times Editorial Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda on Dec. 16 declared that the stricken reactors at Tokyo Electric Power Co.’s Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant have entered the state of “cold shutdown” and that it has been confirmed that the nuclear crisis has “been resolved”(Shusoku [...]
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December 22, 2011
Published on Thursday, December 22, 2011 by Inter Press Service Mothers Rise Against Nuclear Power in Japan by Suvendrini Kakuchi TOKYO – Japan’s nuclear power industry, which once ignored opposition, now finds its existence threatened by women angered by official opaqueness on radiation from the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant after it was struck by an [...]
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December 22, 2011
Not waiting for government help, locals make their own Geiger counters and decontaminate soil [D. Parvaz] Nine months after the worst earthquake and tsunami to ever hit Japan, the rubble is still being cleared, but the issue of nuclear contamination will take decades to deal with. Japan’s government on Wednesday announced that decommissioning the damaged and leaking Fukushima [...]
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December 9, 2011
Returnees fear Fukushima’s invisible touch By Donald KirkMINAMISOMA, Japan – The lugubrious notes of Silent Nightwafted from an outdoor sound system on the near-empty main street to the station of this coastal city on the northern edge of the 20-kilometer “exclusion zone” around the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant. The doleful refrain set the tone [...]
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December 7, 2011
Scientists say radiation continues to leak from Japan’s Fukushima nuclear plant even after the March earthquake A major Japanese food manufacturer is recalling 400,000 cans of powdered milk for infants after traces of radiation from Japan’s damaged nuclear plant were detected in the formula. Meiji said on Wednesday it did not know how many of the cans [...]
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December 3, 2011
An article by a political analyst that starts with an unusual question. But if you read the rest it does not seem to be so unusual. Democracy is a hated creature as far as the elite is concerned. At their most charitable the elites see it as only a once every so many years marking [...]
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November 29, 2011
The Fukushima Daiichi plant as the tsunami approached. Seawater flooded power lines, causing a meltdown in three of the six reactors. Photograph: Reuters Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant operator ‘ignored tsunami warning’ Tokyo Electric Power rejected report warning the nuclear plant could be at risk from 10-metre high tsunami, media claim reddit this Justin McCurry [...]
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November 20, 2011
Workers arrive at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power station in Okuma, Japan. Local elections are being remotely held for the area, although it remains largely deserted. Photograph: David Guttenfelder/AP Japan’s nuclear disaster towns hold remote local elections Evacuated residents from Okuma and Futaba in Fukushima plant exclusion zone ballot for regional assemblies from afar reddit [...]
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October 31, 2011
Younng protesters in Japan are upset with the “hopeless” employment situation [REUTERS] Inspired by the ongoing Occupy Wall Street demonstrations in the United States, thousands of Japanese youth and workers, dissatisfied with growing unemployment and harsh working conditions in the world’s third largest economy, have taken to the streets to demand stable jobs and government [...]
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September 27, 2011
Two ‘systematic’ acts of brutality and coverup By HIROAKI SATO NEW YORK — When Mark Hatfield, who had served as a U.S. Senator from Oregon for three decades, died in early August, obituaries noted that he was one of the first U.S. soldiers to visit Hiroshima not long after the atomic bombing of the city, [...]
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September 19, 2011
Fukushima protesters urge Japan to abandon nuclear power Protesters gathered in Tokyo to call on the government to abandon nuclear energy following the Fukushima disaster. Photograph: Koji Sasahara/AP Tens of thousands join Fukushima protest march in Tokyo amid continuing fears over radiation reddit this Comments (0) Justin McCurry in Tokyo guardian.co.uk, Monday 19 September [...]
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August 24, 2011
Japan credit rating downgraded over ballooning deficit Japanese Finance Minister Yoshihiko Noda announces a $100bn facility to help ease the impact of the strong yen. Photograph: Yoshikazu Tsuno/AFP/Getty Images Japan has the highest debt-to-GDP ratio of any country in the world, with its borrowings estimated to hit 233% of annual economic output in 2011 [...]
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August 23, 2011
Why did Japan surrender? (Keystone/Getty Images)General Douglas MacArthur, as Supreme Commander of the Allied Forces, accepted the unconditional surrender document signed by the Japanese. Sixty-six years ago, we dropped a nuclear bomb on Hiroshima. Now, some historians say that’s not what ended the war. By Gareth CookAugust 7, 2011 E-mail| Print| Reprints| Comments (275) Text size – + [...]
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August 23, 2011
Kan’s ratings fell steeply, following the prolonged nuclear crisis, triggered by a tsunami in March [REUTERS] Japan‘s under-fire prime minister is expected to offer to resign later this month amid criticism over this handling of the country’s nuclear crisis and recovery from a devastating earthquake and tsunami that left thousands dead. Naoto Kan, who has [...]
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August 22, 2011
Residents from a village near the Fukushima nuclear plant are checked for radiation exposure after returning briefly to their homes to collect belongings. Photograph: Koichi Kamoshida/EPA Residents who lived close to the damaged Fukushima nuclear plant are to be told their homes may be uninhabitable for decades, according to Japanese media reports. The Japanese prime [...]
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August 6, 2011
The video can be seen at http://english.aljazeera.net/video/asia-pacific/2011/08/20118693514112266.html Anti-nuclear campaigners in Japan are using the 66th anniversary of the atomic bomb in Hiroshima to push the government to abandon nuclear power. The United States dropped an atomic bomb on the city in August, 1945, near the end of the Second World War. By the end of the year, [...]
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July 13, 2011
The cleanup operation continues four months after an earthquake and tsunami damaged the nuclear plant [Reuters] Japan‘s prime minister says he wants the country to learn from its ongoing crisis and become less reliant on nuclear energy. Naoto Kan told a news conference on Wednesday the risk of nuclear energy is too high and he wants to [...]
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July 5, 2011
The damaged units of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant. Photograph: AIR PHOTO SERVICE / HO/EPA How did the thinking go? Well he does seems to have been anti-nuclear, with good reason BUT why the change in opinion and then this? The answer is quite simple, at least for me, but trust me that [...]
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July 5, 2011
Editor’s Note: Australian participant on the Freedom Flotilla to Gaza Michael Coleman has been arrested by Greek Police for attempting to block their pursuit of the Canadian boat the “Tahrir” as it left port. Michael and Soha, another Canadian Flotilla team member, were in two kayaks beside the “Tahrir”. As soon as the boat’s [...]
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June 30, 2011
Japan‘s desperate ‘nuclear gypsies’ Rights groups say country’s poorest people are being exploited to repair Fukushima plant. Last Modified: 30 Jun 2011 20 Economic downturn has forced many of Japan’s poorest people to work at the damaged Fukushima nuclear plant, risking exposure to dangerous levels of radiation. The growing number of so-called nuclear gypsies, who come [...]
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June 30, 2011
Demonstrators pass the headquarters of Tokyo Electric Power Co, the operator of tsunami-hit Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant, during an anti-nuclear power protest in Tokyo on Thursday. Photograph: Shizuo Kambayashi/AP Trace amounts of radioactive substances have been found in urine samples taken from children from Fukushima city, raising concerns that residents have been exposed internally [...]
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June 21, 2011
UK government‘s Fukushima crisis plan based on bigger leak than Chernobyl As Japan’s nuclear emergency unfolded, scientists devised a worst case scenario involving issuing iodine pills to Britons The earthquake and tsunami-damaged Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant from the air on 14 March 2011, following a second explosion. Photograph: AFP/Getty Images The British government made [...]
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June 19, 2011
Japanese nuclear regulators failed to review and approve steps taken after 2002 to protect against tsunamis at the Fukushima plant and these proved insufficient to prevent the disaster three months ago, a UN report showed. A detailed assessment by an expert team from the International Atomic Energy Agency – the first outside review of Japan’s nuclear [...]
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June 18, 2011
Radiation spike halts Fukushima clean-up Operator of Japan’s stricken nuclear power unable to remove pools of radioactive water at risk of spilling into the sea. Last Modified: 18 Jun 2011 04:53 Email Print The operator of Japan’s stricken Fukushima nuclear power plant has suspended an operation to clean up radioactive water only hours after it had [...]
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June 10, 2011
JUAN GONZALEZ: Almost three months after the earthquake and tsunami that triggered a nuclear disaster in Japan, government officials say they may evacuate more towns affected by radiation. New monitoring data shows “hot spots” of elevated contamination farther away from the stricken Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant. The new hot spots were announced after authorities [...]
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June 8, 2011
Fukushima nuclear plant may have suffered ‘melt-through’, Japan admits Fuel rods have probably breached containment vessels – a more serious scenario than core meltdown – according to report Share100 Justin McCurry in Tokyo guardian.co.uk, Wednesday 8 June 2011 07.39 BST Article history Japan’s prime minister, Naoto Kan, said transparency about Fukushima was essential to [...]
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June 7, 2011
Japan pledges fresh nuclear safety measures Japan says it was unprepared for nuclear disaster in report due to be submitted to UN’s atomic agency. Last Modified: 07 Jun 2011 16:38 Email Print Share Send Feedback Japan has admitted it was unprepared for a disaster on the scale of the Fukushima nuclear crisis in a report [...]
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June 1, 2011
Fukushima effect: Japan schools take health precautions in radiation zone Schools located near the nuclear plant have removed and buried the topsoil from playgrounds amid concern over the risk to pupils Share10 Justin McCurry in Otama guardian.co.uk, Wednesday 1 June 2011 18.48 BST Article history Children walk across the playground at Oyama primary school, which [...]
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May 13, 2011
There is a video Euronews piece on the latest leaks at Fukushima power plant in Japan You can go to the video presentation which is quite short at http://therealnews.com/t2/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=31&Itemid=74&jumival=6769 Related articles Fukushima reactor water leak risks delaying crisis plan – Reuters (news.google.com) REMEMBER FUKUSHIMA? Workers Discover Exposed Rods, And Damage Worse Than Thought (businessinsider.com) TEPCO now [...]
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May 12, 2011
Tomgram: William Astore, A New Age of “Enlightened” War Posted by William Astore at 10:00am, May 12, 2011. In case you hadn’t noticed, they are — no kidding around — absolutely the niftiest non-humans on Earth. I’m speaking about the special operations force of Navy SEALs that took out Osama bin Laden. They and their special ops [...]
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May 9, 2011
After bin Laden Hit, U.S. Aides Raise Dubious Hopes for Peace by Gareth Porter, May 09, 2011 Email This | Print This | Share This | Antiwar Forum Barack Obama and top administration officials have taken advantage of the killing of Osama bin Laden to establish a new narrative suggesting the event will pave the way for negotiations [...]
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May 9, 2011
‘Do not cry’: a nurse‘s blog brings comfort to Japan’s tsunami survivors An anonymous blog written by a Japanese nurse as she cared for victims of the tsunami has given strength to survivors and fellow relief workers Share149 Comments (5) Justin McCurry guardian.co.uk, Sunday 8 May 2011 20.29 BST Article history A tsunami survivor is [...]
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May 8, 2011
Tomgram: Andy Kroll, Welcome to the McJobs Recovery Posted by Andy Kroll at 5:50pm, May 8, 2011. [Note for TomDispatch Readers: For those of you who created a wavelet of contributions in response to our offer on Tuesday of a personalized, signed copy of Adam Hochschild’s remarkable new history of World War I, To End All Wars: [...]
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May 8, 2011
An email from Noam Chomsky Noam Chomsky University of Leeds (UCU) – Blog, November 30, 2009 I had a startling experience a few weeks ago. I travelled to Mexico City for talks at the National University, an enormous and very impressive institution with high standards of achievement and scholarship. Entrance is selective, but the university [...]
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May 8, 2011
In a recent video interview at the Real News site there is some very interesting information. The whole interview should be watched. You can do that at http://therealnews.com/t2/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=31&Itemid=74&jumival=6731. It starts with the news that S & P has said a few things about the US economy. The witch doctors of financial boogie fever have spoken But they seem to [...]
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May 8, 2011
While the establishment media was busy parroting President Obama’s announcement of Osama bin Laden’s supposed assassination, reporting the unsubstantiated claims as if they were unquestionable facts, much of the so-called “alternative” press was far morecautious — and accurate, it turns out. But more importantly, with the new official storyline indicating that bin Laden was in fact unarmed, bigger and [...]
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May 7, 2011
Apparently there is a Japanese MP who has effectively asked for all the details of what was done at Fukushima. Nothing more would be expected to follow but it seems this has not been the case. This is a detailed interview that covers all aspects of the post earthquake position with the nuclear reactors. If [...]
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May 5, 2011
This is an oldie but a goodie from the Guardian.! George Ikners ikners.com a WordPress site Japanese nuclear workers enter Fukushima reactor Ventilation equipment being connected to try to absorb radiation in Japanese power plant damaged by earthquake and tsunami Share8 Associated Press guardian.co.uk, Thursday 5 May 2011 08.37 BST Article history Fukushima nuclear [...]
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May 3, 2011
Fukushima parents dish the dirt in protest over radiation levels Furious Fukushima parents dump school playground earth that may have radiation levels well above the old safety level Share592 Jonathan Watts in Tokyo guardian.co.uk, Monday 2 May 2011 16.43 BST Article history Parents in Fukushima are angry over rule changes which mean that school [...]
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April 17, 2011
Japan nuclear firm aims to end crisis within nine months Tepco reveals two-stage process to bring Fukushima plant under control but declines to say when evacuees can return home Share69 Justin McCurry in Tokyo guardian.co.uk, Sunday 17 April 2011 12.01 BST Article history Chair of Japan nuclear operator Tepco, Tsunehisa Katsumata, announces the ‘cold shutdown’ [...]
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April 14, 2011
AMY GOODMAN: Japanese Prime Minister Naoto Kan tried Tuesday to calm fears about radiation levels and food safety in the region around the heavily damaged Fukushima nuclear power plant. His comments came after Japan raised the severity rating of its nuclear crisis to the highest possible level, heightening concerns about the magnitude of the disaster. [...]
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Been waiting a long time for this. But not surprised. Are you? Think first a Monbiot point of view
The damaged units of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant. Photograph: AIR PHOTO SERVICE / HO/EPA How did the thinking go? Well he does seems to have been anti-nuclear, with good reason BUT why the change in opinion and then this? The answer is quite simple, at least for me, but trust me that [...]
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