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NUCLEAR

COMMENTARY / World
Mar 28, 2013
Asian pivot key to rebooting nuclear disarmament efforts
To break the deadlock over nuclear disarmament, the U.S. must transform negotiations with Russia into a trilateral framework that includes China.
COMMENTARY / World
Mar 26, 2013
Nuclear agenda out of play
In 2009, U.S. President Barack Obama outlined a vision of a world freed of the threat of nuclear weapons, however, disappointingly little progress has been made in the ensuing four years.
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.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Mar 20, 2013
Japan Steel mulls overseas ventures
Japan Steel Works Ltd., a nuclear parts supplier for customers from Areva SA to Hitachi Ltd., is considering tieups in Southeast Asia and India after the Fukushima disaster squeezed demand at home and in the U.S.
COMMENTARY / World
Mar 20, 2013
Making sense of North Korea's March madness
It's ironic that tougher U.N. Security Council sanctions against North Korea are matched by food and humanitarian assistance from U.N. agencies.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Mar 19, 2013
Power trouble leads to suspension of cooling operations at Fukushima plant
Tokyo Electric Power Co. says Monday a problem with electric power has occurred at its crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, leading to the suspension of the system to cool spent fuel pools of the Nos. 1, 3 and 4 units.
EDITORIALS
Mar 18, 2013
No place for nuclear weapons
An international conference sponsored by Norway underscores the impossibility of rescue and relief activities after a nuclear weapon is detonated.
JAPAN / Politics
Mar 16, 2013
Abe purges energy board of antinuclear experts
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe removes most antinuclear researchers from a revamped post-Fukushima energy policy board that advises his government.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Mar 14, 2013
Japan urged to send out global SOS over No. 1 plant
Two years after the March 11, 2011, earthquake and tsunami, the herculean task of decommissioning the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear plant is the subject of growing international involvement.
EDITORIALS
Mar 13, 2013
Kowtowing to the power companies
The Abe administration's apparent refusal to heed the lessons of the Fukushima nuclear disaster suggests it is just kowtowing to the power industry.
COMMENTARY / Japan
Mar 13, 2013
Responding to Fukushima's challenges
Japan's nuclear industry, regulators and government must explain why no well-defined radioactive waste-management system has been established.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Mar 12, 2013
Work resumes on Aomori's new Oma nuclear plant
At the remote northwestern tip of a snowy peninsula, beyond a small road of fishing shacks and empty one-story homes, 600 construction workers and engineers are building a brand-new nuclear plant for a country still recovering from the most severe atomic disaster since Chernobyl.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Mar 12, 2013
Hibiya rally tries to keep nuclear foes on message
Far away from disaster-hit Tohoku, people gathered Monday in Tokyo's Hibiya Park to offer silent prayers on the second anniversary of the Great East Japan Earthquake.
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.
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