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JAPAN
Mar 3, 2018
Fukushima looks to ease blanket radiation checks on rice starting in 2020
The lack of tainted rice in recent years is raising hopes the labor-intensive procedure can be reduced to random inspections, at least outside the 12 hot zones.
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COMMENTARY / Japan
Mar 1, 2018
Why Japan is rethinking its energy diplomacy
The foreign minister's advisory panel on climate change is a wake-up call for the nation.
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JAPAN / Regional Voices: Fukushima
Feb 18, 2018
Fukushima fruit exports to Southeast Asia peachy as contamination fears dissipate
Among peaches Japan exported to Thailand, Malaysia and Indonesia last year, those produced in Fukushima Prefecture led the way, retaining their No. 1 status for two years in a row.
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JAPAN / Media / MEDIA MIX
Feb 17, 2018
Media reports de-romanticize the cleanup work on the Fukushima nuclear power plant
Most of the reliable reporting about the clean-up of the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant since it suffered three meltdowns in March 2011 has been from on-site workers. Even when articles appear in major media outlets about the situation at the crippled reactor, it's usually presented through the...
Japan Times
JAPAN
Feb 14, 2018
Japan's national J-Village soccer center in Fukushima to partially reopen in July
The J-Village national soccer training center in Fukushima Prefecture will partially reopen on July 28, more than seven years after the facility was forced to close due to the 2011 earthquake, tsunami and nuclear disaster that devastated parts of the Tohoku region , its operator said Tuesday.
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JAPAN / Society
Jan 31, 2018
Lingering effects of 2011 disaster take toll in fallout-hit Fukushima, experts warn
There are fewer and fewer headlines these days about the catastrophe resulting from the triple core meltdown in March 2011 at Tepco's Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant. But participants at a recent symposium stressed that the disaster's lingering effects continue to weigh heavily on people and municipalities...
BUSINESS
Jan 31, 2018
Coal firms plead to courts and Trump for West Coast export terminals amid snub by states
The ailing U.S. coal industry is ramping up its political and legal offensive to win approval for West Coast export terminals that could provide a lifeline to lucrative Asia markets.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Jan 30, 2018
Tepco refused safety agency's proposal to simulate Fukushima tsunami nine years before meltdown disaster
Testimony about the plan was submitted as part of a lawsuit filed by Fukushima evacuees seeking compensation from the utility and the central government.
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WORLD
Jan 26, 2018
U.S. Pacific Northwest dangerously underprepared for tsunami, experts say
The U.S. region most vulnerable to tsunami — the massive waves unleashed by undersea earthquakes — is dangerously underprepared, experts and officials in Oregon and Washington state said after a magnitude 7.9 earthquake this week.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Jan 20, 2018
Tepco spots Fukushima fuel debris in reactor 2, says fuel rod assembly 'fell out of reactor'
A fuel assembly handle spotted at the bottom of reactor 2 prompts Tokyo Electric to all but confirm that some of the core melted and fell through the bottom.
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BUSINESS / Companies
Jan 19, 2018
Memories of Tohoku tsunami prompt man to create floating car
Hideo Tsurumaki watched the giant tsunami crash onto Japan's northeast coast on March 11, 2011, sweeping away cars as people tried to escape from them.
EDITORIALS
Jan 17, 2018
Revamping the nation's basic energy plan
The government's basic energy plan, established in 2014, should be subject to a major overhaul.

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