Former Japanese prime minister Naoto Kan at a parliamentary commission in Tokyo. Photograph: Yoshikazu Tsuno/AFP/Getty Images Fukushima inquiry: I felt helpless, says former PM Naoto Kan urges Japan to abandon nuclear power, as the industry attempts to bring closed reactors back into operation Japan‘s prime minister at the height of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear crisis has admitted [...]
An anti-nuclear protester takes part in a rally in front of Tokyo Electric Power Co’s headquarters in Tokyo. Calls for Nuclear Compensation Grow in Japan Radioactive contamination in shiitake mushrooms has raised public clamour for compensation by Suvendrini Kakuchi TOKYO – The discovery of radioactive contamination in ‘shiitake’ mushrooms grown in Manazuru town, Kanagawa prefecture, [...]
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 [...]
Who Can Help The Homeless Everyone can help the homeless. Seriously, anyone with the desire to help the homeless can do so – regardless what others might say. As with any endeavor, a person’s ability to help is limited only by their knowledge of the subject and their desire to do [...]
Mystery of lost Fukushima radiation emails ‘a major cover-up’ Published: 23 March, 2012, 17:19 Tokyo Electric Power Co (TEPCO) workers stand before stricken Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant at Okuma town in Fukushima prefecture, northern Japan (AFP Photo / Yoshikazu Tsuno) (35.5Mb)embed video TRENDS:Earthquake in Japan TAGS: Health, Natural disasters, Nuclear,Accident, Japan link http://www.rt.com/news/japan-fukushima-email-deleted-285/ The Fukushima Prefecture government apparently deleted [...]
It will not take long before the elites behind nuclear power are doing everything to get up and going again at full speed. After all profit is the only game to them. You may have noticed that there seems to be a call for more debate on nuclear power safety. What that means [...]
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 [...]
Fukushima City, Japan - In Fukushima Prefecture, home to the nuclear plant damaged in the March 11 earthquake and tsunami, spirits are low a year after the disasters struck. “People aren’t genki,” said Jun Kitsunai, a community volunteer, using a Japanese term for being happy or upbeat. The 30-year-old who owns [...]
SPIEGEL ONLINE A Lonely Missionary in the Radiation Zone By Heike Sonnberger in Tamura, Japan After the Fukushima disaster, residents fled from the village of Katsurao, located just outside the 20-kilometer exclusion zone. Now living in temporary emergency housing, many exist in an overwhelming state of doubt. But one man hopes to help them return to more [...]
Fukushima reactor facility fires A Meltdown in Communication: Nuclear Disaster and Corporate Accountability by Maria Tomchick A new report released by The Rebuild Japan Initiative Foundation questions the safety of nuclear power, especially in the hands of private companies. A team of 30 lawyers, university professors, and journalists interviewed several hundred people involved with [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Japan nuclear operator scraps plan to dump contaminated water in sea Tepco, operator of the Fukushima nuclear plant, forced to back down after fierce protests from fishing groups A Fukushima water purification building: the company had wanted to release water treated for radioactive contamination into the sea. Photograph: AP http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/dec/09/japan-nuclear-operator-scraps-plans Tepco, the operator of Japan‘s Fukushima nuclear [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
The company‘s president says the matter will be handled by an independent panel [Reuters] Olympus, the Tokyo-based camera and medical supplies giant, has admitted to using a series of corporate acquisitions to hide huge losses, after earlier denying any allegations of wrongdoing. In what has become one of the largest accounting frauds in Japanese history, the company has been hit [...]
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 [...]
‘Occupy’: A catalyst for change? As , Inside Story examines the movement’s goals and its impact. The ‘Occupy’ movement is holding gatherings around the world as protesters meet in the financial centres of several cities. The movement’s central site, United for Global Change, says 951 cities in 82 countries will participate in rallies. Dozens of protesters [...]
Yoshihiko Noda is elected new leader of the Democratic party of Japan in Tokyo, paving the way for him to be the next prime minister. Photograph: Shizuo Kambayashi/AP Yoshihiko Noda, Japan‘s finance minister, is almost certain to become the country’s seventh prime minister in six years on Tuesday after winning the race to succeed Naoto Kan [...]
The clean-up process after the nuclear crisis has contributed directly to the losses incurred by TEPCO [EPA] Tokyo Electric Power Co, the operator of Fukushima nuclear plant, has announced a $7.4bn quarterly loss mostly due to a massive provision to compensate victims of this year’s meltdown. The March disaster at the Fukushima complex in northeast Japan spawned the [...]
If you have been watching the endless debate about nuclear power you may be interested in this video report about the possibility of contaminated beef after Fukushima in Japan. It is interesting because the numbers are, as far as disasters are concerned quite small. So why beat up this type of matter. Whether or not nuclear power [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
‘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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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’ [...]
