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FUKUSHIMA

Japan Times
BASKETBALL / BJ-LEAGUE NOTEBOOK
Aug 7, 2014
Aomori warns foreign players about fraudulent agents
Despite having a collection of 80-plus import players for all recent seasons and the fact that 30 foreign-born head coaches, including one (Howie Landa) who never coached in the preseason or regular season, have been hired since the league's first game was played in 2005, there's no information on the...
JAPAN
Aug 6, 2014
Fukushima reactor 3 meltdown was worse than estimated: Tepco
Tokyo Electric Power Co. said Wednesday that its new estimate shows that all the fuel rods in reactor 3 at the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant apparently melted down and fell onto the bottom of the containment vessel.
EDITORIALS
Aug 5, 2014
Responsibility for disaster
Prosecutors need to take a hard look at a recommendation by a judicial panel of citizens that Tokyo Electric Power Co.'s top executives before and during the March 2011 disaster at the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant be held criminally responsible.
BASKETBALL / BJ-LEAGUE NOTEBOOK
Jul 31, 2014
Gunma hires longtime NBA assistant Parker as new coach
Charlie Parker, who spent more than a decade as an NBA assistant coach, this week was named the Gunma Crane Thunders' new bench boss.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Science & Health
Jul 31, 2014
Experts question Fukushima thyroid screening
More than three years after the triple core meltdown in Fukushima Prefecture devastated the lives of thousands of residents, the effect that the radiation release is having on children's thyroid glands still weighs heavily on residents' minds.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Voices / FOREIGN AGENDA
Jul 30, 2014
Fukushima disaster colors A-bomb anniversaries
Over the past three years, the atomic bombing anniversaries in August have increasingly become a time to ask new questions.
Japan Times
WORLD
Jul 30, 2014
Global nuclear power contribution falls to lowest level since 1980s
Atomic power's share of the global electricity supply has reached its lowest level since the 1980s, following the shutdown of Japan's reactors after the Fukushima disaster.
JAPAN
Jul 30, 2014
Government offers ¥230 billion over 30 years if Fukushima temporarily stores radioactive soil: NHK
The administration of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has offered to pay the Fukushima Prefectural Government ¥230 billion over the next 30 years if the prefecture hosts temporary storage facilities for soil tainted by radiation from the March 2011 nuclear disaster, NHK reported Wednesday.
JAPAN
Jul 24, 2014
Fukushima No. 1 chief admits using used parts for water tanks
The manager of the Fukushima No. 1 plant admits some of the tanks storing its radioactive water were built with used parts.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Voices / HOTLINE TO NAGATACHO
Jul 23, 2014
Use your vote to dismantle shields that protect nuclear firms from post-Fukushima liability
Two tenable shields are being created to protect nuclear power companies. The first is the state secrets law. The second is the Convention on Supplementary Compensation for Nuclear Damage.
Social media helps fuel growing 'sex tourism' in Japan
People walk down a street in the red-light entertainment area of Kabukicho in the Shinjuku district of Tokyo on March 31.
Pope Francis, radical leader who broke the papal mold, dies at 88
Pope Francis blesses the faithful during the weekly general audience at the Vatican in August 2023.
Japan mulls reviewing car safety rules to strike deal with Trump
Ryosei Akazawa, Japan's Economic Revitalization Minister and top tariff negotiator with the U.S., speaks to the press upon his arrival at Haneda Airport in Tokyo on Friday.
Japan tariff negotiator rules out quick U.S. deal despite push by Trump
Ryosei Akazawa, Japan's top tariff negotiator with the U.S., speaks to reporters upon his arrival at Tokyo's Haneda Airport on Friday, a day after talks in Washington.
Shohei Ohtani announces birth of daughter
Shohei Ohtani and his wife Mamiko Tanaka attend a Lakers game in Los Angeles on Dec. 8, 2024.
Is Japan’s parliament ready to welcome more youth to its ranks?
Lower House lawmaker Kai Odake in his Tokyo office on Wednesday
The floor is art: Takuro Tamayama transforms mundanity
Takuro Tamayama’s sculpture “Models (Pair, 6 sets, 12 rings)” comes with a mathematical formation that scales it for different spaces.
Nothing sells like Shohei Ohtani, MLB’s marketing megastar
People walk past an advertisement featuring Los Angeles Dodgers two-way star Shohei Ohtani outside Tokyo Dome on March 18.
Calling all Potterheads: ‘The Goblet of Fire’ comes to Tokyo
The Tokyo version of the globe-trotting exhibition features a Ministry of Magic set, which includes an imposing replica of the Magic Is Might monument representing magical fascism.
Tokyo stock picker advises Trump-proofing portfolios with Godzilla creator Toho
The head of Godzilla, a Japanese monster movie character, is seen on a building of Toho Cinema in Tokyo. Toho is one tariff-defensive stock being recommended by brokers.

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One of the many entrances to the Kabukicho neighborhood in Tokyo’s Shinjuku Ward.
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