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March 11 marks 12 years since the 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake, tsunami devastated northeastern Japan, and the Fukushima nuclear disaster of Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO). The 2011 Fukushima nuclear disaster which released radioactive caesium-137 equal to that of 168 Hiroshima bombs. (…)
Plans to dump more than 1 million tonnes of treated fluid from destroyed nuclear plant in sea has caused an outcry in both China and South Korea, and greater transparency is called for.
People rally in front of the prime minister’s office in Tokyo this month against the Japanese government’s (…)
Bern After Reading : Sanders and Socialist Strategy [[https://newpol.org/bern-after-reading-sanders-and-socialist-strategy] (love the title) by Andrew Sernatinger reminds those of us active in DSA and movement work to think about how we can elevate movements behind the “Not me. Us !” of the (…)
Two veterans go to Japan to discuss the horrors of Hiroshima and Nagasaki and the urgent need for nuclear disarmament.
In 2018, the average age of a Hibakusha (被爆者) — the Japanese word for a survivor of the atomic blasts at Hiroshima and Nagasaki — is eighty-one. When you speak with these (…)
Seventy years ago, the United States committed one of the most horrific atrocities in military history. Why?
Seventy years ago today, the United States detonated a plutonium implosion-type atomic bomb over the Japanese city of Nagasaki, killing between 40,000 and 80,000 people.
It was only (…)
69 years ago today the US dropped a nuclear bomb on the Japanese city of Nagasaki. 40,000 people were killed instantly, and many others died soon after. Three days earlier they had also bombed Hiroshima. Colin Wilson remembers meeting a survivor of that bombing.
The Atomic Bomb Dome, (…)
32,000 join anti-nuclear power rally in Tokyo: organizers
Massive anti-nuclear power demonstrations drew tens of thousands of people near the Diet building and other locations in central Tokyo on March 9, with participants protesting against reactor restarts ahead of the third anniversary of (…)
TOKYO – Banging on drums and waving “Sayonara nukes” signs, thousands of people rallied in a Tokyo park and marched to Parliament Sunday to demand an end to nuclear power ahead of the third anniversary of the Fukushima disaster.
Participants at the demonstration, one of several planned across (…)
Radioactive water still a challenge three years after Fukushima disaster
Almost three years have passed since the outbreak of the Fukushima No. 1 Nuclear Power Plant disaster, and we have yet to see the 30- to 40-year decommissioning process truly take off. Radioactive water continues to leak (…)
(Reuters) - Seiji Sasa hits the train station in this northern Japanese city before dawn most mornings to prowl for homeless men.
He isn’t a social worker. He’s a recruiter. The men in Sendai Station are potential laborers that Sasa can dispatch to contractors in Japan’s nuclear disaster zone (…)
More than 800 join suit to seek suspension of Oi nuclear plant
KYOTO (Kyodo) — More than 800 people joined a lawsuit Tuesday filed last year by 1,100 plaintiffs from 17 prefectures demanding the central government and Kansai Electric Power Co. shut down the utility’s Oi nuclear power plant. (…)
Japan has no third-party oversight body for nuclear secrets
There has been no third-party body in Japan for nearly 15 months to check the validity of the designation by the central government and nuclear plant operators of information related to nuclear power facilities as secrets, it has been (…)
Toshiba warned over illegal working hours at Fukushima plant
FUKUSHIMA — A labor standards inspection office on Nov. 27 warned Toshiba Corp. and 17 other companies over workers illegally exceeding 10 hours of labor a day at the Fukushima No. 1 Nuclear Power Plant, it has been learned. (…)
Fuel removal
Fuel removal starts at Fukushima Daiichi No. 4 spent fuel pool
TOKYO (Kyodo) — The operator of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power station started a yearlong operation Monday to remove fuel from a pool at a damaged reactor building, in a move to address one of the major hazards (…)
Some 55 percent of Japanese agree with former Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi’s call for an end to nuclear power generation in Japan, a Mainichi opinion poll has found.
According to the survey conducted on Nov. 9-10, just 34 percent of those polled said they did not agree with abolishing (…)
TOKYO (Kyodo) — Former Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi urged current Japanese leader Shinzo Abe on Tuesday to make a decision to break away from nuclear power generation, saying that public opinion supportive of a nuclear-free country should not be underestimated.
“It’s a matter of judgment, (…)
Networks nearly incapacitated as millions of messages flood in — Deluge of harassing emails angers anti-nuclear groups
Anti-nuclear activists expressed outrage Monday over cyberattacks involving a torrent of harassing emails that have nearly crippled their online activities.
Yasue Ashihara, (…)
Ex-PM Koizumi’s ’zero nuclear’ remarks causing a stir among lawmakers, gov’t officials
Former Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi’s call for a “zero nuclear” policy has been causing a stir among lawmakers and top government officials.
The opposition camp has been buoyed by Koizumi’s recent (…)
Nuclear refugees struggle to share Olympic joy
While Tokyo Municipal Government officials were rubbing their hands with glee after winning the right to host the 2020 Olympics following their failed attempt to win the 2016 Games, it’s perhaps fair to say that not everyone in other parts of the (…)
No-go zone cleanup way behind schedule
Radiation cleanup in some of the most contaminated towns around the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear plant is far behind schedule, so residents will have to wait a few more years before returning, officials said Monday.
Environment Ministry officials said they (…)
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