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FUKUSHIMA

JAPAN
May 20, 2014
Government silent on report Fukushima No. 1 workers fled during crisis
The government is refusing to comment on a media report that Masao Yoshida, the now-deceased chief of the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear plant at the time of the meltdowns, was quoted as saying most of the plant's workers evacuated the site despite of his order to remain.
Japan Times
JAPAN
May 19, 2014
'Oishinbo' editor defends manga
The editor of 'Oishinbo' defends a decision to link characters' nosebleeds to Fukushima radiation, calling it a 'meaningful' attempt to depict the grim reality of life there.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Issues / THE FOREIGN ELEMENT
May 19, 2014
From Fukushima to Syria, CWAJ supports scholars
The College Women's Association of Japan awards a variety of annual scholarships in higher education, backing, among others, women from abroad studying in Japan and Japanese women getting an education overseas.
JAPAN
May 12, 2014
'Gourmet' comic stokes Fukushima ire
The popular manga series "Oishinbo" came under fire again Monday after a character based on a real-life former mayor refers to Fukushima Prefecture in its latest issue as unlivable because of the radiation leaking from the ruined power plant there.
JAPAN / Politics
May 7, 2014
Kada bows out of Shiga race
Shiga Gov. Yukiko Kada announces she will not seek a third term but will instead team up with a Lower House member to form a local, anti-nuclear political party.
Japan Times
ENVIRONMENT / OLD NIC'S NOTEBOOK
May 3, 2014
Oysters offer pearls of wisdom within
Since the Great East Japan Earthquake on March 11, 2011, our C.W. Nicol Afan Woodland Trust, based in Kurohime, Nagano Prefecture, has been helping to relocate an elementary school in Miyagi Prefecture that was destroyed by the huge tsunami that followed.

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