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Researchers hurt at Ibaraki nuclear facility
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At least four researchers suffer internal radiation exposure after an experiment on elementary particles goes awry at a Japan Atomic Energy Agency facility.
Lisa Jardine
Lisa Jardine is an American writer with a love of all things Japanese. She was a frequent contributor to CNNgo.com and is currently completing a Young Adult coming of age novel about a very tall blonde American teenage boy living in Tokyo at the time of the March 2011 earthquake.
For Lisa Jardine's latest contributions to The Japan Times, see below:
Issues | THE ZEIT GIST Jan 10, 2012
International education a triple-A investment in your child's — and Japan's — future
Bicultural families are on the rise in Japan. In 1970, less than 6,000 “international marriages” — where one partner is non-Japanese — were registered, or 0.5 percent of the total. In 2000, the Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare reported that one in 22, ...