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FUKUSHIMA NO 2

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JAPAN / Media / Japan Pulse
Apr 16, 2013
Google Street Views goes inside a Fukushima school
Straying off the usual Street View path, Google does inside a school in Fukushima's no-go zone.
JAPAN
Apr 14, 2013
M5.2 quake jolts Fukushima, vicinity
An earthquake of preliminary magnitude 5.2 jolts Fukushima Prefecture and its vicinity Sunday evening.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Politics
Apr 12, 2013
Disaster did little to shake up status quo, expert says
Disappointing expectations that the megaquake and tsunami two years ago — and subsequent nuclear calamity — would trigger a rebirth of politics and government, Japan's key policies remain largely unchanged, says Richard Samuels, director of the Center for International Studies at Massachusetts Institute...
Japan Times
CULTURE / Film
Apr 12, 2013
'Sakura Namiki no Mankai no Shita ni (Cold Bloom)'
Grief doesn't have a sell-by date, not really. Decades after a loss, the absence is still felt, the memories remain.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Voices / HOTLINE TO NAGATACHO
Apr 9, 2013
Rosy Fukushima health report faulted by experts
Dear Prime Minister Shinzo Abe,
CULTURE / TV & Streaming / CHANNEL SURF
Apr 7, 2013
The dogs of post-3/11 Fukushima; ESP for the common man; CM of the week: Tokyo Metro
The March 2011 accident at the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant forced the relocation of hundreds of families, and since then television has made a concerted effort to keep us informed as to their situation. On Tuesday, NHK will air a special about family members who tend to get less attention: pet...
JAPAN
Mar 28, 2013
Elderly 3/11 nuke evacuee deaths spiked
The mortality rate of elderly nursing-care facility residents in Minamisoma, Fukushima Prefecture, jumped nearly 2.7 times after they evacuated the city in the days after the March 11, 2011, nuclear disaster, a study finds.
EDITORIALS
Mar 24, 2013
Accident highlights nuclear peril
The daylong power outage last week at the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant suggests that Tokyo Electric Power Co. is still skewing its priorities.

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