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NUCLEAR

JAPAN / Politics
Jun 15, 2016
U.S. official sees opportunity in Obama's Hiroshima visit
U.S. President Barack Obama's recent visit to Hiroshima provided a precious opportunity for the American public to think about the goal of creating a world free of nuclear weapons, a senior U.S. government official said Tuesday.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Jun 15, 2016
U.S. institute warns Pyongyang may be 'significantly' upping nuclear bomb output
North Korea may be significantly expanding its nuclear weapons production and could have added six or more weapons to its stockpile in the last 18 months, a U.S. research institute said on Tuesday.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Politics
Jun 14, 2016
Japan pledges to help put CTBT into force early
Senior Vice Foreign Minister Seiji Kihara said Japan is ready to lead the way in putting the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty into force at an early date.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
Jun 9, 2016
Pyongyang plans late-June legislative assembly
North Korea said on Thursday that it will convene a session of its parliamentary in late June, following a rare congress of the country's ruling Workers' Party in May that cemented young leader Kim Jong Un's control of the isolated state.
BUSINESS
Jun 8, 2016
Washington, New Delhi agree Toshiba U.S. subsidiary will build nuclear plants
The United States and India agreed Tuesday on a plan for a U.S. subsidiary of Toshiba Corp. to build six nuclear power plants in India under a bilateral nuclear pact.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Jun 8, 2016
North Korea restarts plutonium production for nuclear bombs: U.S. official
North Korea has restarted production of plutonium fuel, a senior U.S. State Department official said Tuesday, showing that it plans to pursue its nuclear weapons program in defiance of international sanctions.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Jun 8, 2016
Obama, Modi praise prep work on six-reactor deal in India
U.S. President Barack Obama and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday welcomed the start of preparatory work on six nuclear reactors in India, a key step in closing the first deal stemming from a U.S.-India civil nuclear accord struck over a decade ago.
JAPAN
Jun 8, 2016
Japan to boost cyberattack vigilance to cover space, nuclear, housing agencies
The Japanese government plans to expand the scope of its cyberattack monitoring from the fiscal year beginning next April to include roughly 35 key affiliated agencies, including the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency and the Japan Atomic Energy Agency, government sources said Tuesday.
COMMENTARY / Japan
Jun 7, 2016
Obama's Hiroshima visit and the Enola Gay row
U.S. President Barack Obama's visit to Hiroshima is a powerful antidote to the international scandal that the Smithsonian's Enola Gay exhibit created in 1995.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Jun 7, 2016
How long before North Korea can nuke the U.S.?
North Korean leader Kim Jing Un's ultimate ambition is to be able to hit U.S. cities from a submarine that could hide itself at sea.
JAPAN
Jun 7, 2016
Ships with plutonium from Japan arrive in U.S.
Two ships loaded with Japanese plutonium and highly enriched uranium reach South Carolina for disposal and reprocessing.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Jun 7, 2016
Tokyo H-bomb fallout museum turns 40, keeps alive memory of Bikini Atoll test
A Tokyo museum housing a tuna boat that was coated with radioactive fallout from an American hydrogen bomb test in 1954 is fighting quietly to remind people about the horror of nuclear weapons.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Jun 7, 2016
Hiroshima survivor meets Obama aide and urges end to nuclear weapons
An 84-year-old atomic bomb survivor called on U.S. President Barack Obama to make further efforts to abolish nuclear weapons in a letter she handed to a close aide of the president during a meeting Monday in Washington.
ASIA PACIFIC
Jun 7, 2016
North Korea apparently reopened plant to produce plutonium, IAEA says
North Korea appears to have reopened a plant to produce plutonium from spent fuel of a reactor central to its atomic weapons drive, the U.N. nuclear watchdog said Monday, suggesting the country's arms effort is widening.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Jun 5, 2016
Beijing urged to do more against North's nuclear threat at Shangri-La forum
Japanese and South Korean officials on Saturday called on China to do more to help resolve the North Korean nuclear issue and lamented the lack of progress so far.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Jun 5, 2016
Only Fukuryu Maru got health-damaging dose from 1954 H-bomb tests, ministry claims
No other Japanese ship was exposed to health-damaging radiation from the 1954 U.S. hydrogen bomb tests in the Pacific Ocean aside from the Fukuryu Maru No. 5, which was contaminated by fallout from one of the tests at Bikini Atoll, according to a recently released health ministry study.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Jun 2, 2016
Manga shows Hiroshima survival as one of joy
The horror in post-bombing Hiroshima is captured in black-and-white photos of the city and its beleaguered survivors.
ASIA PACIFIC
Jun 2, 2016
U.N. Security Council condemns North Korean missile launches, threatens action
The United Nations Security Council on Wednesday condemned three recent failed ballistic missile tests by North Korea and threatened to take further "significant measures."
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Jun 2, 2016
Westinghouse in 'advanced' talks to build six reactors in India: ambassador
Toshiba Corp.'s Westinghouse Electric and India are in "advanced discussions" for the company to build six nuclear reactors there, the country's ambassador to the United States said on Wednesday, ahead of India Prime Minister Narendra Modi's planned visit to Washington next week.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Voices / VIEWS FROM THE STREET
Jun 1, 2016
Views from Hiroshima: What did you make of President Obama's visit?
People in Hiroshima offer their views on last week's historic trip by U.S. President Barack Obama.

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