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The head of an official inquiry into the deadly collapse of a Bangladesh factory complex said the building’s owner was the “main culprit” for the disaster because he violated construction codes. The cave-in of the eight-story Rana Plaza outside the capital last month killed ...
Throughout most of Japan, June is the rainy season. While all that rainfall is great for rice paddies so that we can have delicious new harvest rice in the fall, it makes it a rather dull month for seasonal produce: The summer’s bounty of ...
“I was stopped by two men in a government-registered vehicle, blindfolded and dragged off the street. They took me away to a house in a place I did not know. I was forced into a room with blood all over the walls and floor, ...
Claude Regy says the team at the Shizuoka Performing Arts Center (SPAC) threw him the “best birthday party ever” when he arrived in Japan just days after the actual May 1 occasion. The 90-year-old French director is hoping for an even better birthday gift, ...
As far as debuts go, Shohei Otani's delivered. The celebrated rookie pitched fairly well on Thursday night, and though he finished outside the decision, he left the mound with the Hokkaido Nippon Ham Fighters well within striking distance of the Tokyo Yakult Swallows.
As a nonsignatory to three international treaties on compensation for nuclear accidents, Japan is exposed to the risk of expensive lawsuits. By the terms of the three treaties, damages cases stemming from nuclear accidents must be handled in the courts of the country where ...
Evgeny Latypov, a 26-year-old student at Temple University Japan, passionately wanted to help out in Fukushima Prefecture, where three disasters — an earthquake, tsunami and a nuclear power plant crisis- have made life miserable for its residents. But the language barrier made it difficult ...
Measuring radiation levels accurately is difficult for laypersons and they shouldn’t panic if their devices show much higher levels than the figures announced by the government, radiation experts say. “Cheap and easy-to-handle devices sold on the Internet can sometimes show abnormally high radiation levels. ...
Parents who can’t see their children after an international divorce will welcome Japan’s latest moves to revise its laws on returning children taken across borders while hoping that enforcement of the legal revisions will be swift. At the same time, experts say new domestic ...
Tokyo Electric Power Co., facing more problems at the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant than it originally thought, announced Tuesday a revised road map for bringing the crisis under control. A major change from the first plan released a month ago will be ...
The emergency cooling system for reactor 1 at the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear plant may have been shut down manually before the tsunami hit March 11, according to a Tokyo Electric Power Co. spokesman and documents released by the utility. A part of the ...
Tokyo Electric Power Co. will have to change its road map for stabilizing the Fukushima No. 1 power plant because it will take longer than expected to install a cooling system with circulating water for heavily damaged reactor No. 1, experts said Friday. Tepco ...
Experts were not surprised Thursday to find that most, if not all, of the fuel rods in reactor No. 1 at the Fukushima No. 1 power plant had been fully exposed, melted and fell to the bottom of the pressure vessel. Tokyo Electric Power ...
Robert Ryker, the conductor and music director of Tokyo Sinfonia, has a dream to help heal the broken hearts of tsunami survivors with music. “The holiday season is a period of high stress,” Ryker, 72, who has dual U.S.-Canadian citizenship, told The Japan Times. ...
Police arrested a British man Saturday for allegedly obstructing the campaigning efforts of a candidate for the Tokorozawa Municipal Assembly in Saitama Prefecture due to excessive noise. Edward Jones, 34, who told police he is an English teacher, was arrested in the act of ...
Too many uncertainties cloud the feasibility of Tokyo Electric Power Co.’s plan to achieve a cold shutdown of the damaged reactors at the Fukushima No. 1 power plant in six to nine months, experts said Monday. Tepco announced Sunday it aims to stabilize reactors ...
Tokyo Electric Power Co. said Friday it will be able to raise its power-generating capacity to 95 percent of demand this summer instead of 85 percent. Tepco is planning to increase capacity to 52 million kw in July and 50.7 million kw in August ...