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3 former execs of utility charged in Fukushima disaster

March 6, 2016 By Northwest Asian Weekly

By Mari Yamaguchi Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — Three former Japanese utility executives were formally charged Monday, Feb. 29 with negligence in the Fukushima nuclear disaster, becoming the first officials from the company to face a criminal trial. Five court-appointed lawyers indicted Tsunehisa Katsumata, chairman of Tokyo Electric power Co. at the time of the […]

Filed Under: World News Tagged With: 2009, 2016, Associated Press, Fukushima Dai-ichi, Ichiro Takekuro, Kashiwazaki Kariwa, Kyodo News, Ruiko Muto, Sakae Muto, TEPCO, Tokyo Electric, Tsunehisa Katsumata, Vol 35 No 10 | March 5 - March 11, culture, japan

Man arrested over drone at Japanese prime minister’s office

May 3, 2015 By Northwest Asian Weekly

By Mari Yamaguchi Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — Japanese police have arrested a man who admitted to landing a drone with low-level radioactive sand on the roof of the prime minister’s office to protest the government’s nuclear energy policy, officials said Saturday. Tokyo metropolitan police said Yasuo Yamamoto, 40, turned himself in to authorities late […]

Filed Under: World News Tagged With: 2011, 2015, Associated Press, Fukushima Dai-ichi, NHK, Obama, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, Tokyo, United States, Vol 34 No 19 | May 2 - May 8, White House, Yasuo Yamamoto, japan

Technology to look inside Fukushima reactors faces challenge

April 4, 2015 By Northwest Asian Weekly

By Yuri Kageyama AP Business Writer YOKOHAMA, Japan (AP) — The cutting-edge technology was billed as a way to decipher where exactly the morass of nuclear fuel might sit at the bottom of reactors in the Japanese power plant that went into multiple meltdowns four years ago. But what went wrong, even in a simple […]

Filed Under: World News Tagged With: 2015, Adrian Hillier, David Ireland, Follow Yuri Kageyama, Fukushima Dai-ichi, Fukushima Daiichi, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Tadashi Yotsuyanagi, Tokyo Electric Power Co, Toshiba Corp, Vol 34 No 15 | April 4 - April 10, Westinghouse Electric Co, YOKOHAMA, japan, technology

Japan’s ruling party heads for election landslide

December 21, 2014 By Northwest Asian Weekly

By Ken Moritsugu Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — Japan’s ruling coalition was headed for a resounding victory in lower house elections Sunday, firming up Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s hold on power as he prepares to push forward on several politically difficult fronts.

Filed Under: World News Tagged With: 2009, 2011, 2012, 2014, Associated Press, Buddhist-backed Komei, Elaine Kurtenbach, Emily Wang, Finance Minister Taro Aso, Fukushima Dai-ichi, Hiroshi Yamada, Internal Affairs Ministry, Liberal Democratic Party, Liberal Democrats, Mari Yamaguchi, NHK, Tokyo, Vol 33 No 52 | December 20 - December 26, Yoshiko Takahashi, japan

Fukushima children start new school after f leeing radiation

April 10, 2014 By Northwest Asian Weekly

By Yuri Kageyama Associated Press MATSUMOTO, Japan (AP) – The 12-year-old girl didn’t want to leave her younger

Filed Under: World News Tagged With: 2011, 2014, Aida Junior High School, Associated Press, Belarus, Fukushima Dai-ichi, Hiroshi Ueki, Kokoro Kamiyama, MATSUMOTO, Mayor Akira Sugenoya, Vol 33 No 16 | April 12 - April 18, Yukie Hashimoto, japan

Life of Fukushima nuke worker recorded in comic-book style

March 29, 2014 By Northwest Asian Weekly

By Yuri Kageyama Associated Press TOKYO (AP) – First off, no one who works at Japan’s wrecked nuclear power plant calls it Fukushima Dai-ichi, comic-book artist Kazuto Tatsuta says in his book about his time on the job. It’s ichi efu, or 1F.

Filed Under: World News Tagged With: 2011, 2014, Associated Press, Fukushima Dai-ichi, Kazuto Tatsuta, Kodansha Ltd, Koichiro Shiraki, Osamu Tezuka, Spirited Away, TEPCO, Tokyo Electric Power Co, Vol 33 No 14 | March 29 - April 4, japan

S Korea bans Japanese fish due to radiation fears

September 15, 2013 By Northwest Asian Weekly

By Eun-Young Jeong The Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Korea announced Sept. 6 that it was banning all fish imports from along Japan’s northeastern coast because of what officials called growing public worry over radioactive water leaking into the Pacific Ocean near the crippled Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant.

Filed Under: World News Tagged With: 2012, 2013, Energy Minister Toshimitsu Motegi Sept, Fukushima Dai-ichi, Hiroshi Kishi, Hisashi Hiroyama, Japan Fisheries Cooperatives, Japanese Fisheries Agency, Pacific Ocean, SEOUL, South Korea Vice Fisheries Minister Son Jae-hak, TEPCO, Tokyo Electric Power Co, Vol 32 No 38 | September 14 - September 20, Yoshihide Suga

Radioactive groundwater at Fukushima nears Pacific

August 31, 2013 By Northwest Asian Weekly

By Mari Yamaguchi The Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — Deep beneath Fukushima’s crippled nuclear power station, a massive underground reservoir of contaminated water that began spilling from the plant’s reactors after the 2011 earthquake and tsunami has been creeping slowly toward the Pacific.

Filed Under: World News Tagged With: 2011, 2013, 2015, Atsunao Marui, Fukushima Dai-ichi, Iwaki City, Japan Atomic Energy Agency, Ken Buesseler, Masakazu Yabuki, Masayuki Ono, Nuclear Regulation Authority Chairman Shunichi Tanaka, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, Shinji Kinjo, TEPCO, Tokyo Electric Power Co, Toyoshi Fuketa, Vol 32 No 36 | August 31 - September 6, Yoshimi Hitosugi, Zengo Aizawa

Japan set to restart reactors after nuclear crisis

July 13, 2013 By Northwest Asian Weekly

By Mari Yamaguchi The Associated Press TOKYO, Japan (AP) — Japan is moving a step closer to restarting nuclear reactors as utilities are set to ask for safety inspections at their idled reactors, the clearest sign of Japan’s return to nuclear energy nearly two and a half years after the Fukushima disaster.

Filed Under: World News Tagged With: 2011, 2013, Fukushima Dai-ichi, Hokkaido Electric Power Co, Katsuhiko Kawai, Kyushu Electric Power Co, Nuclear Regulation Authority, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, Shota Okada, Tokyo Electric Power Co, Vol 32 No 29 | July 13 - July 19, japan

Japan sells first fish caught since nuclear crisis last year

June 30, 2012 By Northwest Asian Weekly

By Yuri Kageyama The Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — The first seafood caught off Japan’s Fukushima coastline since last year’s nuclear disaster went on sale Monday, but the offerings were limited to octopus and marine snails because of persisting fears about radiation.

Filed Under: World News Tagged With: 2012, Fukushima Dai-ichi, Fukushima Prefectural, Hirofumi Konno, Nobuyuki Yagi, Tokyo, Vol 31 No 27 | June 30 - July 6, Yasuhiro Yoshida, York Benimaru, japan

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