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FUKUSHIMA

Japan Times
JAPAN / Regional Voices: Fukushima
Feb 21, 2022
Fukushima's forestry industry still haunted by nuclear meltdown
Despite a big decline in radiation, the sector faces reduced demand and difficulty hiring new workers.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Feb 8, 2022
Taiwan to relax Japan nuclear disaster-related food import ban
Cabinet spokesperson Lo Ping-cheng said the government had decided to make a 'fair adjustment' to its ban, saying that with so many countries lifting restrictions, Taiwan had to follow suit.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Jan 24, 2022
Cleanup of Fukushima nuclear plant hit by leak of ice-wall coolant
The leakage has had no impact on the wall or the environment, plant operator Tepco said.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Regional Voices: Fukushima
Dec 28, 2021
Ahead of a permanent return, Fukushima evacuees spend first night in homes since 2011 disaster
The village of Katsurao remains part of an exclusion zone due to high levels of radiation emitted during the triple meltdown at the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Regional Voices: Fukushima
Nov 29, 2021
As COVID infections fall, Aizuwakamatsu welcomes more late-autumn school trips
Forty-five schools plan to send their students for school trips to the city in December, a period when few schools normally plan trips, the tourism bureau said.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / 20 QUESTIONS
Nov 28, 2021
Jayne Nakata: 'In life the hard things are the things that give you the most chance to grow'
Finding herself in a part of Japan where there weren't so many foreign women, Jayne Nakata decided to reach out through podcasting.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Nov 5, 2021
Decade on from nuclear disaster, Fukushima farmers fear contaminated water could hurt business
Japan plans to release more than 1 million tons of contaminated water from the Fukushima No. 1 plant into the sea from 2023 as part of an effort to clean up the site.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Politics
Oct 27, 2021
Kishida's nuclear push faces resistance ahead of election
Debate over whether to restart more reactors in Japan is highly charged, with 40% of the population opposing the move.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Regional Voices: Fukushima
Oct 18, 2021
How 3/11 forced a Fukushima doctor to become an expert in treating radiation
Medical workers who had no prior experience of dealing with the issue found themselves on the front line in March 2011.
Two of America’s biggest debt holders are dumping Treasurys
The U.S. Treasury building in Washington. Investors in Japan and China sold a pile of U.S. debt in the last quarter, just before the U.S. presidential election.
Tokyo Metro’s overseas efforts begin in earnest with London deal
Tokyo Metro will soon have a role in the running of London's Elizabeth Line, a major train route serving the U.K.’s capital city and environs.
Russia fired experimental ballistic missile at Ukraine, Putin says
Ukrainian firefighters work on a spot following an airstrike in Dnipro on Thursday.
Ex-yokozuna Kitanofuji dies at 82
Yokozuna Kitanofuji enters the ring during the May 1970 grand sumo tournament in Tokyo.
Man charged with murder allegedly made victim date other men for money
A car carrying suspect Ryotaro Masuda, who was indicted for allegedly beating his 25-year-old girlfriend to death, leaves the Shibuya Police Station in Tokyo on Thursday.
The slow-burn success of ‘A Samurai in Time’
A 19th-century warrior gets struck by lightning and wakes to find himself in 21st-century Kyoto in Junichi Yasuda’s surprise hit “A Samurai in Time.”
Around a quarter of Japan married couples in their 20s met through dating apps
A survey released by an organization promoting “Good Couples Day” shows that 24% of couples in their 20s met their marriage partner through a dating app.
'Tokyo Swindlers': Get deep into the minds of real estate con artists
In Ko Shinjo's "Tokyo Swindlers," a group of con artists manipulates real estate giants into falsified deals within the highly competitive, quick market.
Japan, U.K. and Italy discuss inviting more countries to joint fighter project
A new concept model of a next-generation fighter jet to be jointly developed by Japan, Britain and Italy is on display in Farnborough, Hampshire, in July.
Haruki Murakami's 'The City and Its Uncertain Walls' gives deep deja vu
For “The City and Its Uncertain Walls,” translated into English by Philip Gabriel, Haruki Murakami confronts the ghosts who won't leave him alone.

Podcast

One of the many entrances to the Kabukicho neighborhood in Tokyo’s Shinjuku Ward.
Kabukicho: Tokyo’s ‘stadium of desire’

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Construction takes place on the Takanawa Gateway Convention Center in Tokyo, slated to open in 2025.
A boom for business tourism in Japan?
By Kathryn Wortley

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