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Reader Mail
Mar 31, 2011

Systematic detection of radiation

Regarding Tai Kawabata's March 25 article, " Reveal fallout data": Radiation detectors need to be set up in concentric circles around the Fukushima nuclear plant and results posted periodically on the Web. Air monitoring sensors like those at the University of California at Berkeley — go to www.nuc.berkeley.edu/UCBAirSampling...
Reader Mail
Mar 31, 2011

Prod toward more transparency

Regarding Gregory Clark's March 24 article, "Nuclear meltdowns and Japanese culture": It is always a pleasure to read Clark's considered analysis, steeped as it usually is in high-level personal experience with some wing of the Japanese bureaucracy or industry from the past 30 years.
Reader Mail
Mar 31, 2011

Tepco should bury dying plants

One year ago we watched our pet dog die a relatively fast but painful death. A very long time ago, Japanese in some parts of the country would carry their old and fragile up a mountain to let them pass on. Today they encourage people not to give up with the phrase "gambare." In the United States I have...
Reader Mail
Mar 31, 2011

Switch to renewable won't suffice

Regarding Brahma Chellaney's March 23 article, "Nuclear power no solution": The ongoing events in Japan have led many, including Chellaney, to question the role of nuclear technology in energy production, and calls are already being made for countries to abandon their nuclear programs altogether. Global...
BUSINESS
Mar 31, 2011

Coke may send S. Korea bottled water to Japan

Coca-Cola Co., the world's biggest soft-drink maker, said its bottled-water plants in Japan are running 24 hours a day to meet demand amid fears of tap water contamination from the crippled Fukushima No. 1 nuclear plant.
JAPAN
Mar 30, 2011

Kan defends helicopter trip to nuke site, denies it delayed key venting

Prime Minister Naoto Kan denied Tuesday that his visit to the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear plant on March 12, the day after the killer earthquake and tsunami hit the Tohoku region, delayed a crucial step to avert an atomic crisis.
JAPAN
Mar 30, 2011

Plutonium traces point to core leak

Plutonium that may have come from a reactor core at the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear plant was detected in soil on the premises, indicating fuel rods suffered heavy damage, Tokyo Electric Power Co. has revealed.
Japan Times
LIFE / Digital / TECH_JAPAN
Mar 30, 2011

New TVs get socially networked while a solar-powered lamp saves energy.

At the Consumer Electronics Show 2011 in Las Vegas earlier this year, Sony previewed its new line of BRAVIA LCD televisions, and the company has now announced that they will be released at the end of April.
BUSINESS
Mar 29, 2011

Status of disaster-hit automakers in U.S. and Japan

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Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Voices / VIEWS FROM THE STREET
Mar 29, 2011

Tokyo: How have the events since the March 11 Tohoku-Kanto earthquake changed you or your plans?

Kota Totsuka
JAPAN
Mar 28, 2011

First foreign doctors arrive to help victims

For the first time since the deadly earthquake and tsunami hit northeast Japan, the government on Sunday permitted a foreign medical team to enter the country to treat victims.
Reader Mail
Mar 27, 2011

Keep track of levels toward Sendai

Regarding the March 24 article "Radiation rises in Tokyo water": If radiation levels are about normal for Tokyo, there should also be information on what that means for people farther north, near Fukushima and Sendai. mike shea
JAPAN / Q&A
Mar 27, 2011

Radioactive water stymies crews

The effort to steer the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant away from disaster suffered another setback when workers discovered widespread uncontrolled leaking of radioactive water at the six-reactor complex.
EDITORIALS
Mar 27, 2011

The young volunteers

As the earthquake, tsunami and nuclear plant disasters slowly start to be addressed, one of the hopeful images is that of young people volunteering. Shaken, literally, out of their daydreams, quite a few young people have signed up to help with recovery in the devastated region and with shelter and aid...
JAPAN
Mar 27, 2011

Level of iodine-131 in seawater off chart

The level of radioactive iodine detected in seawater near the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant was 1,250 times above the maximum level allowable, the Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency said Saturday, suggesting contamination from the reactors is spreading.
Japan Times
BASKETBALL / HOOP SCOOP
Mar 27, 2011

Time for JBA to give up charade on merger

Under normal circumstances things move at a snail's pace within the Japan Basketball Association. So it's anyone's guess if talks between JBA officials and their bj-league counterparts will pick up anytime soon and/or if any progress will be made in the months to come for the creation of a new "top league"...
BUSINESS / YEN FOR LIVING
Mar 26, 2011

Tepco blackouts roll only so far

Everybody is being asked to conserve electricity but when it comes to rolling blackouts, Arakawa and Adachi Ward have been forced to bear the burden.

Longform

Growing families are being priced out of Tokyo’s condo market, forced to choose between downtown convenience and suburban space.
Is living in central Tokyo still affordable?