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JAPAN
Sep 4, 2013

Tokyo sets up English website on radiation

The metro government opens an English website offering radiation-related information — a last-ditch effort before the 2020 Olympics host is picked — to brush off the negative impact from the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear plant mess.
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CULTURE / Art
Aug 22, 2013

Aichi Triennale's best works deal with disaster

Since the Great East Japan Earthquake on March 11, 2011, a lot of art here has dealt with disaster. Not all the pieces in the second installment of the Aichi Triennale are on this theme — but the best ones are.
COMMENTARY / World
Aug 7, 2013

'No more hibakusha' takes on new meaning after 3/11

A Japanese scholar writes of his outrage in 2011 over the realization that the Fukushima nuclear plant accidents would produce a new generation of hibakusha.
Reader Mail
Jul 27, 2013

Nuclear safety example expected

I refer to The Japan Times' July 2 article "Nuclear safety rules put onus on utilities." While the Nuclear Regulation Authority has done well introducing more stringent requirements to ensure the safety of the nuclear power stations in Japan, on the basis of the Fukushima experience, the new rules seem...
Reader Mail
Jul 10, 2013

The risks of exporting a disaster

These days I'm really shocked by Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's economic policy of exporting Japan's nuclear technology to foreign countries. The reason is that the problems at the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant have not yet been resolved.
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JAPAN
Jun 28, 2013

First MOX shipment since 3/11 arrives in Fukui

Japan's first shipment of mixed uranium-plutonium oxide (MOX) fuel since the Fukushima nuclear crisis broke out on March, 11, 2011, arrives at Takahama, Fukui Prefecture.
EDITORIALS
Jun 28, 2013

New nuclear safety standards

Four power companies are expected to apply to restart up to 12 nuclear reactors under newly approved nuclear safety and emergency-response standards.
Reader Mail
Jun 27, 2013

The only ethical energy option

Regarding the June 19 article "Meltdowns haven't killed anyone: LDP bigwig": Liberal Democratic Party policy chief Sanae Takaichi's comment that the meltdowns at the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant "have not claimed the lives of any people," however technically accurate, was deservedly criticized...
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JAPAN
Jun 21, 2013

NRA shows off its new crisis center

The Nuclear Regulation Authority on Thursday showed the media its new Emergency Response Center, where data will be gathered and decisions made if another Fukushima-like disaster strikes.
Reader Mail
Jun 20, 2013

Nuclear exports mind-boggling

I just can't understand why Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh signed a joint statement to promote talks to conclude a cooperation pact to have India acquire Japanese nuclear technology and equipment.
Reader Mail
Jun 20, 2013

Alternative view from Wales

May I comment on the June 14 report "Wales touts Hitachi reactors," which focused on the intention of Hitachi Ltd.'s subsidiary Horizon Nuclear Power to build a nuclear power station at Wylfa on the island of Anglesey, Wales?
JAPAN
Jun 15, 2013

Reconstruction official canned, blasted for tweets

Disaster victims and Diet lawmakers vented their outrage Friday over disparaging comments by a senior Reconstruction Agency official via his Twitter account that got him the sack.
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BUSINESS
Jun 7, 2013

Abe plan lifts renewables at utilities' expense

Shinzo Abe's pledge to spur ¥30 trillion of investment in Japan's electricity industry opens the way for a surge in clean energy projects at the expense of traditional utilities.
EDITORIALS
May 31, 2013

Ill-prepared for nuclear accidents

The exposure of 33 researchers to radiation on May 23 at a Japan Atomic Energy Agency research facility in Tokai, Ibaraki Prefecture, revealed the JAEA's failure to uphold basic safety standards. Education and science minister Mr. Hakubun Shimomura said May 28 that the ministry will thoroughly reform...
EDITORIALS
May 11, 2013

Preventing use of nuclear weapons

Despite its experience as a victim of atomic bombs and a nuclear accident, Japan declines to endorse an international a statement condemning nuclear weapons-use.
JAPAN / Media / DARK SIDE OF THE RISING SUN
May 5, 2013

Yakuza links put nation at added nuclear risk

On April 15, two alleged terrorists in Boston killed three people, injured more than 170 others and terrified a nation — for about $100 it cost them to modify pressure cookers into bombs. We should be glad they didn't come to Japan, where they may have been able to explode a ready-made nuclear dirty...
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BUSINESS / JAPAN-CHINA SYMPOSIUM
Apr 30, 2013

Siting for renewables needs bottom-up approach

If post-Fukushima nuclear disaster crisis Japan chooses to fill its energy needs with renewable energy sources, the nation will still face the same NIMBY (not-in-my-backyard) resistance to building large numbers of new facilities in the densely-populated country, an American expert said at a recent energy...

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