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Episode 9: Eight years on from Fukushima

On the eighth anniversary of the Great East Japan Earthquake, staff writer Ryusei Takahashi shares his experience of a recent visit to the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant and Magda Osumi discusses the Tohoku region’s recovery. Hosted by Oscar Boyd.

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Episode 35: Japan's first climate emergency: On Sept. 25, 2019, Iki Island in Nagasaki Prefecture became the first place in Japan to declare a climate emergency.

Had Carlos Ghosn's plans to incorporate rival Fiat-Chrysler into the Nissan-Renault alliance come to fruition, he might have created the world's largest carmaker and reasonably expected to be remembered as a business visionary. For the foreseeable future, however, he will be known above all as something very different: a fugitive.

Episode 34: The great escape of Carlos Ghosn: On Dec. 29, Carlos Ghosn escaped arrest in Tokyo and fled to Beirut, Lebanon. JT staff writer Satoshi Sugiyam...

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