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Mizuho Aoki
Mizuho Aoki is a staff writer covering local news, including the current Tokyo gubernatorial race, education and aviation-related stories. She graduated from Hitotsubashi Universty with a degree in social science.
BUSINESS
Jan 18, 2012
JAL to appoint first ex-pilot president to steer new team, fall TSE relisting
Japan Airlines Corp. will appoint Senior Managing Executive Officer Yoshiharu Ueki as its new president following a shareholders' meeting in February, a move intended to strengthen its new management team ahead of its relisting later this year.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Jan 15, 2012
Firms look to hire foreign students
Hundreds of foreign students from Japan's top universities turned up at a career forum Saturday in Tokyo, hoping to secure a job before their graduation in 2013.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Jan 14, 2012
Tokyo foreigners get disaster drill
A total of 150 non-Japanese took part Friday in an annual emergency drill for foreign residents in Tokyo looking to learn or reaffirm how to deal with a disaster like the one that hit March 11.
JAPAN
Jan 12, 2012
Suicides top 30,000 for 14th straight year
2011 appears to be the 14th straight year for the annual suicide count to exceed 30,000, according to tentative statistics recently released by the National Police Agency.
Japan Times
JAPAN / NUCLEAR AWAKENING
Jan 4, 2012
Mothers first to shed food-safety complacency
The disaster at the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear plant and the threat of radioactive fallout changed the lives of many people, including Mizuho Nakayama and other mothers of young children whose primary goal suddenly became that of keeping their kids out of harm's way.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Dec 8, 2011
Cesium-laced baby formula sparks concern, but risk low
Mothers with young children, and the overall dairy industry, were quick in reacting Wednesday to news of cesium-tainted baby formula being sold in markets, even though the reported contamination levels were well below the government-set limit.
Japan Times
JAPAN / EXPLAINER
Dec 6, 2011
Tax, pension breaks called favoritism for homemakers
The tax and social security systems have long been seen as favoring full-time homemakers over working women because they are based on single-income households.
JAPAN
Nov 25, 2011
Miyagi debris from tsunami Tokyo-bound
The Tokyo Metropolitan Government announced Thursday the capital's incineration facilities will help store, dump and burn up disaster debris from Onagawa, Miyagi Prefecture, next year.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Nov 18, 2011
Cesium fallout widespread
Radioactive cesium from the crippled Fukushima No. 1 nuclear plant probably reached as far as Hokkaido, Shikoku and the Chugoku region in the west, according to a recent simulation by an international research team based on data after March 20, a week after the hydrogen explosions.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Nov 16, 2011
Low-level radiation questions spur anxiety
For residents of Fukushima Prefecture, anxiety over their exposure to low levels of radiation has been palpable since the March 11 twin disasters crippled the Fukushima No. 1 power plant.
JAPAN
Nov 10, 2011
Teachers bolt jobs over mental angst
The number of first-year teachers who left their job for health reasons has increased twentyfold over the past 10 years, with most citing apparent emotional issues, an education ministry survey has found.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Q&A
Nov 9, 2011
Scrub homes, denude trees to wash cesium fears away
Worried about radioactive fallout from the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear plant? Don't wait for the government to help.
JAPAN
Nov 3, 2011
Xenon means recent fission in reactor 2
Tokyo Electric Power Co. said Wednesday that some of the melted fuel in reactor 2 at the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear plant may have triggered a brief criticality event.
BUSINESS
Nov 1, 2011
Panasonic to report second-biggest loss
Reversing an earlier projection of a ¥30 billion profit, Panasonic Corp. said Monday it expects to post a group net loss of ¥420 billion for the current business year ending next March.
BUSINESS
Oct 21, 2011
ANA to use Dreamliner to tap overseas markets
All Nippon Airways Co. is targeting overseas customers as competition in the domestic market intensifies, the airline's president, Shinichiro Ito, said Thursday.
Japan Times
JAPAN / EXPLAINER
Oct 4, 2011
World Heritage listing has its price
News that Iwate Prefecture's historic Hiraizumi area and the Ogasawara Islands would be added to UNESCO's World Heritage List last June lifted the spirits of residents in the Tohoku region after the March 11 quake-tsunami trauma.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Sep 14, 2011
Tohoku students to talk of quake at Summer Davos
Seven high school and university students from the Tohoku region, including some who lost their parents in the March 11 disasters, will share their experiences with world leaders at the Annual Meeting of the New Champions, organizer said.
Japan Times
JAPAN / CABINET INTERVIEW
Sep 13, 2011
Maeda eyes Eco-point plan to revive Tohoku
New transport minister Takeshi Maeda says he wants to bring back the Housing Eco-point incentive system to achieve low-carbon, sustainable cities in the quake- and tsunami-hit Tohoku region.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Sep 11, 2011
Effect of contaminated soil on food chain sparks fears
Six months after the nuclear meltdowns in Fukushima Prefecture, the public's awareness of the threat posed by radiation is entering a new phase: the realization that the biggest danger now and in the future is from contaminated soil.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Aug 25, 2011
Nuclear refugees struggle to cope with uncertain future
Like thousands of other people, Miwa Kamoshita's life was turned upside down when the March 11 tsunami struck the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear plant, leading her and her family to voluntarily evacuate their home in Iwaki, some 40 km south of the crippled power station.
Japan to revise consumption tax exemption for overseas tourists
Tourists walk through Nakamise shopping street near Sensoji Temple in Tokyo in April
Japan's tourism industry hit by cancellations after megaquake alert
A beach closed due to a megaquake alert in Hiratsuka, Kanagawa Prefecture, from Friday to Thursday.
Focus shifts to incoming typhoon as Tropical Storm Maria dissipates
Newly formed Tropical Storm Ampil, which is forecast to approach eastern Japan this weekend, is seen on the left side of this satellite image.
Kishida to step down in September in bid to show ‘LDP has changed’
Prime Minister Fumio Kishida speaks during a news conference Wednesday at the Prime Minister's Office in Tokyo.
Publisher finds surprise audience after translating history textbooks
Yamakawa Shuppansha president Takeshi Nozawa holds the publisher's textbook on Japanese history — used in high schools across Japan — alongside the new English version in Tokyo on May 23.
Economic security is about strengthening and sustaining growth, former minister says
Former economic security minister Takayuki Kobayashi says changes in the international balance of power, along with deepening economic interdependence, have led some countries to attempt to use their economic power to impose their will on others.
Ice bandanas, convenience store breaks: Running under Japan’s summer sun
Blistering heat is becoming a fixture of summer in Japan, but a few tweaks to your routine can make your outdoor runs bearable — if not enjoyable — until cooler temperatures return.
Japan issued its first-ever megaquake alert. What does that mean?
Naoshi Hirata (center), chairman of a committee tasked with evaluating the risk of a Nankai Trough earthquake, speaks at a news conference in Tokyo on Friday.
France brings down the curtain on its Olympic party with Tom Cruise and Leon Marchand
Fireworks are set off during the closing ceremony of the 2024 Paris Olympics at Stade de France in Saint-Denis on Sunday.
Japan fuels U.S. LNG boom even as climate targets and impacts loom
Flaring at the Cameron LNG export terminal in Hackberry, Louisiana. Flaring, a common sight at LNG plants, is a controlled burning of gas for reasons ranging from depressurizing equipment to disposing of gas that can’t be used. The practice is a "waste of money" and negatively impacts climate change and human health, says the International Energy Agency.

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