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COMMENTARY / Japan
Mar 14, 2014
Culture of safety can make or break nuclear power plants
On the third anniversary of the Tohoku earthquake and tsunami and its devastating impact on Tokyo Electric Power Co.'s Fukushima nuclear power plants, we need to understand why Tohoku Electric Power Co.'s Onagawa Nuclear Power Station — which was even closer to the quake epicenter — had a drastically different fate.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Companies
Feb 11, 2014
Toyota plant closures put paid to Aussie industry
Toyota Motor Corp. will stop building cars in Australia in 2017, spelling the end of the local industry after Ford Motor Co. and General Motors Co. announced last year they also plan to pull out.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Jan 15, 2014
Tepco business plan, including July reactor restart, gets official OK
The government approved Tokyo Electric Power Co.'s revised 10-year business plan Wednesday that includes its hope to restart reactors at its Kashiwazaki-Kariwa nuclear power plant in Niigata Prefecture this summer.
BUSINESS / Companies
Dec 5, 2013
Hitachi gets green for U.K. reactors
Hitachi Ltd. has gained access to a U.K. loan guarantee to build two nuclear reactors in Wales as the British government promotes a new generation of atomic power projects.
EDITORIALS
Oct 28, 2013
Two tasks for the opposition
The Diet must thoroughly scrutinize the Abe administration's rationale for pushing to restart some of Japan's 50 nuclear reactors that have been offline for more than two years.
Japan Times
WORLD / Science & Health
Oct 6, 2013
Unique ginkgoes are living fossils
This fall, the fan-shaped leaves of the ginkgo tree will turn a golden yellow, and in the silence of the night, the tree will offer a little arboreal tremor and drop its entire canopy in a total release of its unique and primal foliage.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Aug 29, 2013
Fukushima spill snags reactor restart quest
The Fukushima No. 1 power plant's continued pollution of the Pacific is fueling growing domestic and international concern about radiation hazards, clouding plans by utilities and the government to quickly restart a dozen reactors.

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