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After Fukushima, Japan beginning to see the light in solar energy

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 00:00:00 -0700

The Guardian - By Chico Harlan - Jun. 18 (News Report) - Government subsidies raising interest in renewables, but higher bills could complicate Shinzo Abe's economic recovery plan Across Japan, technology companies and private investors are racing to install devices that until recently they had little interest in: solar panels . Massive solar parks are popping up as part of a rapid build-up that one developer likened to an "explosion." The boom was sparked by a little-noted government policy, implemented nearly a year ago, that guaranteed generous payments to anybody selling renewable energy, including solar power. Because of that policy, known as a feed-in tariff, investors and analysts say Japan has become one of the world's fastest-growing users of solar energy. This year alone, Japan is forecasted to install solar panels with the capacity of five to seven modern nuclear reactors. Before the 2011 meltdowns at the Fukushima Dai-ichi plant, Japan had all but neglected renewable energy, instead emphasising atomic power. But the accident at ...

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The Great Divide: Japan Is a Model, Not a Cautionary Tale

Mon, 10 Jun 2013 00:00:00 -0700

New York Times - By By JOSEPH E. STIGLITZ - Jun. 10 (Opinion) - Opinionator | The Great Divide: Japan Is a Model, Not a Cautionary Tale

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Japan and South Korea Bar U.S. Wheat Imports

Sat, 01 Jun 2013 00:00:00 -0700

New York Times - By Victoria Shannon - Jun. 01 (News) - Japan and South Korea suspended some imports of American wheat, and the EU urged its 27 nations to increase testing, after the U.S. government disclosed that a strain of genetically engineered wheat that was never approved for sale was found growing in an Oregon field.

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Japanese Lab Workers Exposed to Low Levels of Radiation

Sun, 26 May 2013 00:00:00 -0700

New York Times - By Martin Fackler - May. 26 (News Report) - Japanese Lab Workers Exposed to Radiation

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China's Evolving 'Core Interests'

Sat, 11 May 2013 00:00:00 -0700

New York Times - By The Editorial Board - May. 11 (Editorial) - Editorial: China’s Evolving ‘Core Interests’

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Japan’s Shift From Nuclear Energy

Tue, 07 May 2013 00:00:00 -0700

New York Times - By By NASSRINE AZIMI - May. 07 (Opinion) - Op-Ed Contributor: Japan’s Shift From Nuclear Energy

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Opinion: N. Korea endgame: 3 scenarios

Sat, 13 Apr 2013 00:00:00 -0700

CNN - By Michael J. Green - Apr. 13 (Opinion) - Hyperbolic North Korean threats of war are not new. What is new is the intensity and persistence of those threats this time around. Add to that an untested 29-year-old leader who is suddenly a four-star general with lots to prove. How does this end? Consider these three possibilities:

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Japan Refuses to Give Up Whale Slaughter After Clash with Sea Shepherd

Sun, 24 Feb 2013 00:00:00 -0800

care2.com - By Alicia Graef - Feb. 24 (News Report) - Japan has rejected claims that this year’s whale hunt is over following a clash with the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society in the Southern Ocean this week. Sea Shepherd claims two of its vessels, the Steve Irwin and the Bob Barker, were rammed by the Japanese factory ship Nisshin Maru and that a Japanese escort vessel directed a water canon and launched concussion grenades at activists on Wednesday. Sea Shepherd director Bob Brown said he has alerted authorities and wants immediate action against what he called “multiple breaches of international law,” in an interview with the Australian Broadcasting Corporation. He also said it the “worst incident” the group has seen since the Ady Gil sank in 2010 after a confrontation with whalers. “They literally ran over the top of the Bob Barker. It looked like a tank crushing a car,” said Captain Paul Watson. Read more: http://www.care2.com/causes/japan-refuses-to-give-up-whale-slaughter-after-clash-with-sea-shepherd.html#ixzz2LqqoQ18D

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Contamination From Fukushima Disaster Still Lingers

Sat, 23 Feb 2013 00:00:00 -0800

Huffington Post - By Aaron Sankin - Feb. 23 (News Report) - While the report notes that the levels present in the fish are well below what public health officials would deem dangerous, the presence of radiocesium from the damaged reactor shows just how far-reaching the disaster's effects have been.

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Hostages, Militants Reported Dead In Algerian Assault

Sat, 19 Jan 2013 00:00:00 -0800

All Things Considered - Jan. 19 (News) - Algerian special forces stormed a gas installation where militants were holding several hostages on Saturday, according to Algeria's state media. The reports claim 11 militants and seven hostages were killed during what is being described as a final assault to end the four-day crisis.

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Fukushima 50: 'We felt like kamikaze pilots ready to sacrifice everything'

Fri, 11 Jan 2013 00:00:00 -0800

The Guardian - By Justin McCurry - Jan. 11 (Special Report) - Nuclear plant staff live unseen in the shadow of the disaster, says worker Atsufumi Yoshizawa, as Japan grapples with the fallout from the world's worst nuclear accident since Chernobyl.

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In Asia, Ill Will Runs Deep

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 00:00:00 -0800

New York Times - By Odd Arne Westad - Jan. 07 (Opinion) - The resentments between China and Japan predate World War II by centuries.

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Japan PM praises Fukushima work

Sat, 29 Dec 2012 00:00:00 -0800

BBC News - Dec. 29 (News Report) - Japan's PM Shinzo Abe praises workers during a visit to the stricken Fukushima nuclear plant, after his government said it could reintroduce nuclear power.

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Waves of anger: Japan tsunami victim aid spent on whalers, officials and fighter pilots

Wed, 31 Oct 2012 00:00:00 -0700

rt.com - Oct. 31 (News) - A quarter of Japan’s tsunami relief fund has been spent on unrelated projects, including renovating a government office and subsiding whaling. The revelations have ignited outcry as more than 320,000 tsunami victims remain displaced. The expenditure was

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Tokyo governor to form new party

Thu, 25 Oct 2012 00:00:00 -0700

BBC News - Oct. 25 (News) - Tokyo's outspoken governor Shintaro Ishihara says he is resigning to form a new national political party, ahead of expected general elections in Japan.

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Energy, Markets and Money: Hara-kiri: Turning Europe Into Japan

Mon, 15 Oct 2012 00:00:00 -0700

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Chinese protesters clash with police outside Japanese embassy

Sun, 16 Sep 2012 00:00:00 -0700

Christian Science Monitor - By Didi Tan - Sep. 16 (News Report) - People are in the streets over a chain of islands disputed by China and Japan; the issue bubbled to the surface last week when the Japanese government purchased the islands from their private owner. ...

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The Panic Over Fukushima

Sat, 18 Aug 2012 00:00:00 -0700

Wall Street Journal - By Richard Muller - Aug. 18 (Opinion) - Japan's nuclear accident was a great human tragedy, but its long-term health effects have been exaggerated—and the virtues of nuclear power remain, writes Richard Muller.

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Japan to probe Tepco 'cover-up'

Sat, 21 Jul 2012 00:00:00 -0700

BBC News - Jul. 21 (News) - Japan's health ministry is to investigate a report that workers at the stricken Fukushima nuclear plant were urged to disguise their exposure to radiation.

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Japan's New Nuclear Regulatory Agency, and the Addition of "Security" to Their Nuclear Policy

Fri, 20 Jul 2012 00:00:00 -0700

thebulletin.org - By Masako Toki - Jul. 20 (Special Report) - By reprocessing spent fuel, Japan has accumulated enough plutonium to begin nuclear weapon production, which increases proliferation concerns and decreases Japan's ability to be a leader in nuclear disarmament and nonproliferation.

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Japan orders restart of two nuclear reactors shut by tsunami

Sat, 16 Jun 2012 00:00:00 -0700

Washington Post - By Chico Harlan - Jun. 16 () - TOKYO — Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda on Saturday ordered the restart of two nuclear reactors, a move that returns Japan to atomic power but also counters public concern about its dangers. The central government’s decision paves the way for the Kansai Electric Power Co . in western Japan to refire a pair of units at the Ohi plant, where reactors — like others in the country — were idled in the wake of last year’s Fukushima Daiichi nuclear ...

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Japan PM orders reactor restart

Sat, 16 Jun 2012 00:00:00 -0700

BBC News - Jun. 16 (News) - Japan is to restart two nuclear reactors - the first to go back online since plants were shut down after the last year's Fukushima crisis.

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Radioactive Bluefin Tuna In U.S. Traced To Japan Nuclear Disaster

Tue, 29 May 2012 00:00:00 -0700

Huffington Post - May. 29 (News Report) - Across the vast Pacific, the mighty bluefin tuna carried radioactive contamination that leaked from Japan's crippled nuclear plant to the shores of f the United States 6,000 miles away – the first time a huge migrating fish has been shown to carry radioactivity such a distance.

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Thousands Rejoice As Japan Shuts Off Nuclear Power

Sat, 05 May 2012 00:00:00 -0700

NPR - May. 05 (News) - Japanese marched to celebrate the switching off of the last of their nation's 50 nuclear reactors Saturday, waving banners shaped as giant fish that have become a potent anti-nuclear symbol. Japan will be without electricity from nuclear power for the first time in four decades.

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Japan marks one year since quake and tsunami disaster

Sun, 11 Mar 2012 00:00:00 -0800

Associated Press - Mar. 11 (News Report) - Services held to remember the earthquake and tsunami which killed thousands and left communities devastated one year ago With moments of silence and prayers, Japan has begun marking one year since the massive earthquake and tsunami struck the nation, killing just over 19,000 people and unleashing the world's worst nuclear crisis in a quarter century. At dawn in the devastated northeastern coastal town of Rikuzentakata, dozens of people from across Japan gathered to offer prayers in front of a solitary pine tree that stands amid the barrenness, a symbol of survival. Some returned to where their houses and those of friends once stood, and placed flowers and small gifts for loved ones lost in the disaster. Naomi Fujino, a 42-year-old Rikuzentakata resident who lost her father in the tsunami, was in tears recalling 11 March, 2011. With her mother, she escaped to a nearby hill where they watched the enormous wave wash away their home. They waited all night, but her father never came to meet ...

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