Salem-News.com News Feed for articles tagged with japan www.salem-news.com 2010 I believe the team at NaturalNews said it well: "The news you are about to read puts everything else in the category of 'insignificant' by comparison". Experts have revealed that Fukushima reactor No. 4 is on the verge of a catastrophic failure that could unleash enough radiation to end human civilization on our planet. http://salem-news.com/articles/may072012/fukushima-reality.php http://salem-news.com/articles/may072012/fukushima-reality.php Mon, 07 May 2012 13:31:00 PDT Fukushima Minpo, the local Fukushima paper, has a very interesting series on the background of the Fukushima I Nuclear Power Plant accident. Looking back 10, 20 years or more, the paper tries to identify the root cause of the accident on the local level, on the prefectural level, and the national level through the eyes of the local or prefectural government. http://salem-news.com/articles/april282012/fukushima-deception-exskf.php http://salem-news.com/articles/april282012/fukushima-deception-exskf.php Sat, 28 Apr 2012 21:27:00 PDT In this week's 'Reactor Reax', payments to the nuclear industry are waging a divisive voice in many states. Reactors may be growing smaller, but smaller nuclear reactors are raising questions over cost, and The National Interest looks at 'The Steep Path to a Nuclear Future'. http://salem-news.com/articles/april272012/reactor-reax.php http://salem-news.com/articles/april272012/reactor-reax.php Fri, 27 Apr 2012 10:21:00 PDT It is too early to call everyone in North America to prepare for a radiation cloud streaming down radioactive particles from the accident in Japan. According to the media and government, America is not at risk due to radioactive fallout from the recent Japanese nuclear accidents in several reactors but that could change in a heartbeat as authorities race to combat the threat of multiple nuclear reactor meltdowns. http://salem-news.com/articles/april242012/nuclear-contamination.php http://salem-news.com/articles/april242012/nuclear-contamination.php Tue, 24 Apr 2012 00:59:00 PDT Military abuse against ethnic minorities in Burma, continues; the armed forces of this military junta have not changed their abusive behavior in ethnic conflict areas. Continuous fighting since June 2011 in Kachin State has displaced 75,000 people. Tactics of the Burmese military include constant violations of international humanitarian law. http://salem-news.com/articles/april222012/burma-japan-wg.php http://salem-news.com/articles/april222012/burma-japan-wg.php Sun, 22 Apr 2012 14:43:00 PDT In this week's roundup of nuclear-related stories and developments from around the globe, we learn that senators are calling for an end to the US nuclear industry welfare program. Authors of a new report call proposed nuclear plants 'the poster child' of failing, expensive power projects. http://salem-news.com/articles/april202012/nuke-danger.php http://salem-news.com/articles/april202012/nuke-danger.php Fri, 20 Apr 2012 20:25:00 PDT After tourin what remains of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear facilities, U.S. Senator Ron Wyden sent a letter to Japanese Ambassador Ichiro Fujisaki looking for ways to advance and support clean-up and recovery efforts. Wyden’s principal concern is the relocation of spent fuel rods currently being stored in unsound structures immediately adjacent to the ocean. http://salem-news.com/articles/april162012/wyden-nuclear-japan.php http://salem-news.com/articles/april162012/wyden-nuclear-japan.php Mon, 16 Apr 2012 20:56:00 PDT Yasumi Iwakami is arguably one of the best known independent journalists in Japan covering the Fukushima I Nuclear Power Plant accident, particularly among net users. I happened on Iwakami's live netcast of TEPCO press conferences on his USTREAM channel very early on in the crisis, and have followed him and his reporting since. http://salem-news.com/articles/april112012/yasumi-twakami.php http://salem-news.com/articles/april112012/yasumi-twakami.php Wed, 11 Apr 2012 11:24:00 PDT Hmm, when they lie, they still let info drop. The Times included this factoid: "was just two feet deep, rather than the 33-foot level estimated by Tepco officials when the government declared the plant stable in December." http://salem-news.com/articles/april012012/nuclear-japan.php http://salem-news.com/articles/april012012/nuclear-japan.php Sun, 01 Apr 2012 20:54:00 PDT Tokyo station has dangerously high radiation level prompting Bob Nichols to headline his essay “Evacuate Tokyo.”[1] Even as you settle down to absorbing the latest shock, Fukushima Diary by Lori Mochizuki continues to push us all deeper into the deep hole of depression. But the world has promised to keep smiling. http://salem-news.com/articles/march082012/fuku-year-later-as.php http://salem-news.com/articles/march082012/fuku-year-later-as.php Thu, 08 Mar 2012 11:47:00 PST In a very rare example of extreme bravery the Wakayama Court Judge presiding over the case of Sea Shepherd Cove Guardian volunteer Erwin Vermeulen, has declared the Dutch activist not guilty. This outcome was completely unexpected from a justice system that boasts a 99% conviction rate. http://salem-news.com/articles/february212012/sea-sherherds-court.php http://salem-news.com/articles/february212012/sea-sherherds-court.php Tue, 21 Feb 2012 22:55:00 PST In this week's roundup of nuclear-related stories, an Op-Ed writer opines that we have seen the future of industrial policy and it doesn't work, and an editorial writer suggests that the latest round of nuclear power plants probably won't mean the beginning of a 'nuclear renaissance'. These stories and many more are in this week's Reactor Reax. http://salem-news.com/articles/february172012/reactor-reax.php http://salem-news.com/articles/february172012/reactor-reax.php Fri, 17 Feb 2012 14:32:00 PST After decades of no activity, the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission voted to award a license to a group to build two reactors in Georgia. This moves comes in the wake of the Fukushima disaster and also the near-drowning of a U.S. nuclear facility in the Midwest... http://salem-news.com/articles/february102012/reactor-reax.php http://salem-news.com/articles/february102012/reactor-reax.php Fri, 10 Feb 2012 15:17:00 PST The amount of radioactive materials released from the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant has risen this month compared with December, Tepco said. The amount so far has come to 70 million becquerels per hour, compared with 60 million becquerels in December, Tokyo Electric Power Co. said Monday. http://salem-news.com/articles/january252012/fukushima-radioactive.php http://salem-news.com/articles/january252012/fukushima-radioactive.php Wed, 25 Jan 2012 10:01:00 PST The University of California at Berkeley detected cesium levels in San Francisco area milk above over EPA limits … and even higher than they were 6 months ago. Finnish public television says that cesium from Fukushima has been detected in lichens, fungi and elk and reindeer meat in Finland. http://salem-news.com/articles/january242012/fukushima-disaster.php http://salem-news.com/articles/january242012/fukushima-disaster.php Tue, 24 Jan 2012 18:05:00 PST Koji Yamashiro finished his B.A. and M.A. in the Dept. of Jewish Thought in Jerusalem’s Hebrew University, and won a presidential scholarship for his doctoral studies. But Israel's Immigration Authority is concerned that Yamashiro fwill not want to leave the country once he is completes his studies. http://salem-news.com/articles/january112012/japanese-israel-student-.php http://salem-news.com/articles/january112012/japanese-israel-student-.php Wed, 11 Jan 2012 16:40:00 PST Peace activists made their case for the abolition of nuclear weapons, specifically the Trident nuclear weapons system, while on trial in a Kitsap County courtroom on January 4th and 5th for blocking the entrance to a local nuclear weapons base. The ten defendants in two separate trials were charged with being “pedestrians on Roadway Unlawfully,” a traffic infraction. http://salem-news.com/articles/january072012/nuclear-activists.php http://salem-news.com/articles/january072012/nuclear-activists.php Sat, 07 Jan 2012 13:27:00 PST This week in Reactor Reax we hear more about the ongoing problems in Japan based on the recent tsunami and nuclear disaster in Fukushima prefecture. An LA Times report details the short-circuiting of the U.S. nuclear renaissance of new power plant construction. http://salem-news.com/articles/january072012/reactor-reax.php http://salem-news.com/articles/january072012/reactor-reax.php Sat, 07 Jan 2012 13:21:00 PST The Senate approved the indefinite military incarceration of suspected American citizens. No evidence, charges, trial or other aspects of due process would be required. You might be suspected of being an “insurgent” depending on your ancestry or your physical appearance. (Recall the shameful incarceration of Japanese Americans in World War II.) http://salem-news.com/articles/december082011/war-terror-rd.php http://salem-news.com/articles/december082011/war-terror-rd.php Thu, 08 Dec 2011 15:13:00 PST Just imagine the Road from Dover, Delaware to Philadelphia, or on to New York - being in a "dead" zone. That is the story in Fukushima prefecture in Japan. http://salem-news.com/articles/november132011/japan-abandoned-jm.php http://salem-news.com/articles/november132011/japan-abandoned-jm.php Sun, 13 Nov 2011 18:30:00 PST What has just occurred at the UN always happens when ingrained power faces 'showdowns' over any loss of their domain. Fukushima has exposed the worst of nuclear radiations to mankind, including overwhelming evidences of gross malpractices by the industry, government and its regulatory agencies, enough to bring repudiation by a huge majority of our worlds citizenry. http://salem-news.com/articles/september252011/fukushima-history-jn.php http://salem-news.com/articles/september252011/fukushima-history-jn.php Sun, 25 Sep 2011 13:03:00 PDT On August 19th, 2011, Japan’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs released a statement in response to recent media coverage about the US military’s use and storage of defoliants (including Agent Orange) on Okinawa during the Vietnam War. http://salem-news.com/articles/september172011/military-defoilants.php http://salem-news.com/articles/september172011/military-defoilants.php Sat, 17 Sep 2011 15:58:00 PDT France's CEREA has the simulation map of ground deposition of cesium-137 from the Fukushima I Nuclear Power Plant accident on its "Fukushima" page. http://salem-news.com/articles/september032011/fukushima-folo.php http://salem-news.com/articles/september032011/fukushima-folo.php Sat, 03 Sep 2011 13:52:00 PDT The tears falling down the wrinkled face of an old woman in Binh Dinh Province sent Japanese photojournalist Yasufumi Murayama on an odyssey around South Korea to find the man she had loved during the war and had two children with. Murayama was on one of several trips he made to Central Viet Nam to interview victims raped by South Korean troops during the war when he met Lam Thi Ky, 68, when she told him the story of her life before 1975. http://salem-news.com/articles/august302011/heartbreak-war-vd.php http://salem-news.com/articles/august302011/heartbreak-war-vd.php Tue, 30 Aug 2011 21:58:00 PDT Radioactive cesium exceeding 8,000 becquerels/kg has been detected in the ashes from burning the regular household garbage in Kanto and Tohoku regions. The Ministry of the Environment has decided to apply the same rule as the disaster debris and allow the ashes to be buried. http://salem-news.com/articles/august292011/japan-radiation-jn.php http://salem-news.com/articles/august292011/japan-radiation-jn.php Mon, 29 Aug 2011 16:32:00 PDT I was horrified when one of my best Fukushima contacts, Karin Rougeau, sent a link to our newsroom today from a southern newspaper The Sentinel-Record, (An establishment that dates back to 1877), with an article falsely describing the grueling circumstances in Fukushima as: 'Northeast Japan improving since disaster'. It is not true, not at all... http://salem-news.com/articles/august252011/fukushima-media-lies-tk.php http://salem-news.com/articles/august252011/fukushima-media-lies-tk.php Thu, 25 Aug 2011 19:07:00 PDT The whole international press have blackout the worst catastrophe in modern history. So this is a humble reminder of what really is going on in Fukushima and beyond today. There is a crime against humanity happening right under our nose and all we can hear is a deafening silence. Please spread this video as much as you can ... in the name of humanity... thanks. http://salem-news.com/articles/august252011/japan-fukushima.php http://salem-news.com/articles/august252011/japan-fukushima.php Thu, 25 Aug 2011 00:34:00 PDT The U.S. and Canada are continuing in a concerted, lock-step program of complicit cover-up of dangerous radiation levels resulting from the Fukushima nuclear false flag event of March 11, 2011. Also made public is a court Declaration on the impacts and levels of Fukushima radiation http://salem-news.com/articles/august162011/moret-radioactivity-.php http://salem-news.com/articles/august162011/moret-radioactivity-.php Tue, 16 Aug 2011 19:21:00 PDT Four peace activists were arrested while attempting to block the entrance to the U.S. Navy's West coast Trident nuclear submarine base. Members and supporters of Ground Zero Center for Nonviolent Action (Ground Zero) in Poulsbo, Washington commemorated the anniversaries of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki by vigiling at the New Main Gate entrance to Naval Base Kitsap-Bangor while some protesters blocked the entrance... http://salem-news.com/articles/august082011/nuclear-protests.php http://salem-news.com/articles/august082011/nuclear-protests.php Mon, 08 Aug 2011 20:41:00 PDT At birth we join society (in progress) as a nascent thread; when we exit society, we leave a rip in the social fabric. John Steinbeck observed in one of his novels: “When two people meet, each one is changed by the other so, you’ve got two new people.” Society is created and sustained by these ongoing interactions of its members—a non-stop fluxion of interrelationships. http://salem-news.com/articles/august052011/they_die_we_die_dj.php http://salem-news.com/articles/august052011/they_die_we_die_dj.php Fri, 05 Aug 2011 18:47:00 PDT