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Reader Mail
Oct 23, 2013

Sorcerer needed for Fukushima

The most disturbing sentence in the Oct. 16 Jiji article "Tepco's toxic water failures pitiful [according to the Nuclear Regulation Authority]" is the last one: "Meanwhile, no community has volunteered to host the 'final' storage site."
Japan Times
ENVIRONMENT / OLD NIC'S NOTEBOOK
Oct 5, 2013

Canadian sojourn helps to shake off Japan malaise

It was really good to escape the summer heat in Japan and spend two weeks in British Columbia with three of my grown offspring and five grandchildren, as well as with lots of friends both old and new.
JAPAN
Sep 28, 2013

Tepco fixes silt fence at No. 1 plant

Tokyo Electric Power Co. said it has finished repairing the damaged silt fence set up in front of reactors 5 and 6 at the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear plant to stop radioactive materials escaping into the Pacific.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Sep 26, 2013

Bad weather damages silt fence at No. 1 plant

Poor weather has again damaged a silt fence in the ocean erected to contain radioactive material escaping from the crippled Fukushima No. 1 nuclear plant.
JAPAN
Sep 25, 2013

Tepco finds chinks around two bolts in leaky tank

Tokyo Electric manages to uncover bolt chinks in the storage tank from which 300 tons of highly radioactive water escaped with barely a trace last month.
JAPAN
Sep 13, 2013

Toxic drain water may have run into Pacific

Tokyo Electric Power Co. said it found radioactive substances in a drainage ditch that leads directly to the Pacific Ocean near the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear plant.
Reader Mail
Sep 11, 2013

Water treatment at Fukushima

Regarding the Sept. 6 editorial "No quick fix for Fukushima leaks": The water treatment, referred to as "ALPS" is simply an old technology using something called "ion exchange." This is not rocket science, and is similar to technology used in under the sink water filters, the kind that are used for a...
JAPAN
Sep 5, 2013

Camera at reactor 1 finds water entry point

An entry point for some of the groundwater flooding the crippled Fukushima No. 1 plant is found at reactor 1.
JAPAN
Sep 4, 2013

Radiation near tanks hits highest level yet

Tokyo Electric Power Co. detects the highest radiation levels found so far near tanks holding contaminated water used to cool reactors at its wrecked Fukushima No. 1 nuclear plant.
Reader Mail
Sep 4, 2013

Who's running Fukushima 'show'?

I'm looking at this from across the Pacific Ocean, but I have to ask, just who is running the show at Fukushima? How in the world can any company, regardless of size or influence, get away with doing what is being done at this site? Is there no shame?
BUSINESS / YEN FOR LIVING
Sep 2, 2013

How economically effective are the Olympics?

The so-called economic boost of the Olympics is mostly speculative.
JAPAN
Aug 8, 2013

Activists prod NRA to get serious about Fukushima water crisis

Citizens' groups and lawmakers urged the government Thursday to bring the reactor restart evaluation process to a halt and put all efforts and resources into containing the groundwater flow contaminating the Pacific at the Fukushima No. 1 plant.
BUSINESS / Economy
Aug 2, 2013

Slow reactor restart process rattles energy markets as uranium piles up

Uranium prices are showing little sign of recovery after sinking to their lowest levels in more than seven years amid a glut of the radioactive metal and speculation Japan will delay restarting its reactors.
JAPAN
Jul 18, 2013

80% think another nuke disaster 'probable': poll

Many in Japan believe the risk of another nuclear crisis is high unless all the reactors are shut down, a recent survey suggests.
JAPAN
Jun 25, 2013

Tritium samples in sea near No. 1 jump

The density of radioactive tritium in samples of seawater from near the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear plant doubled over 10 days to hit a record 1,100 becquerels per liter, possibly indicating contaminated groundwater is seeping into the Pacific Ocean.
COMMENTARY / COUNTERPOINT
Jun 23, 2013

Happiness: Abenomics falls short

What makes people happy? The global trend toward quantifying happiness certainly got a big boost from Bhutan, the tiny Himalayan kingdom that has championed and made a cottage industry out of the concept of Gross National Happiness (GNH).

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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?