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Town of Futaba kicks off radiation cleanup with eye on 2022 revival via The Japan Times

Posted on 2017/12/25 by nfield

FUKUSHIMA – Cleanup work kicked off Monday to make radiation-tainted Futaba, one of the towns hosting the meltdown-hit Fukushima No. 1 power plant, habitable again by around spring 2022 under a government-led recovery project. Cleanup and demolition crews are trying to … Continue reading →

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Chiba court recognizes nuke disaster evacuees’ ‘loss of hometown’ for first time via The Mainichi

Posted on 2017/09/24 by nfield

When on Sept. 22 the Chiba District Court ordered Tokyo Electric Power Co. (TEPCO) to pay some 376 million yen in damages to a group of Fukushima nuclear disaster evacuees, it gave concrete recognition to the evacuees’ loss — of … Continue reading →

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Nuclear Plants Plus Hurricanes: Disasters Waiting to Happen via Common Dreams

Posted on 2017/09/22 by nfield

Throughout the world, some 430 reactors are in various stages of vulnerability to natural disaster, including ninety-nine in the United States. by Harvey Wasserman Although the mainstream media said next to nothing about it, independent experts have made it clear that Hurricanes … Continue reading →

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Tepco again ordered to pay damages in nuclear disaster, but not state via The Mainichi

Posted on 2017/09/22 by nfield

[…] The Chiba District Court ruling follows a Maebashi District Court decision in March that found negligence on the part of both Tepco and the government played a part in the worst nuclear catastrophe since Chernobyl and ordered them to … Continue reading →

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A-BOMB, NUCLEAR ACCIDENT VICTIMS REMEMBERED via Rafu Shimpo

Posted on 2017/08/18 by nfield

A commemoration of the 72nd anniversary of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombings on Aug. 5 in Little Tokyo also focused on a more recent catastrophe — the 2011 nuclear disaster in Fukushima — and those still living with the after-effects. The gathering … Continue reading →

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Fukushima Storyteller Yoshiko Aoki: almost 6 years after 3.11, her sheer experience & generally shared voices of Fukushima via Japanese Perspective

Posted on 2017/04/09 by nfield

[…] Yoshiko Aoki:  Hello, everybody. My name is Yoshiko Aoki. I live in Koriyama city. Now, you can see the map on the screen. This is a map of Fukushima. In the middle of the map, is where Koriyama city … Continue reading →

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Minister yells at press after he criticizes remaining Fukushima evacuees via Japan Today

Posted on 2017/04/05 by nfield

TOKYO — Japan’s disaster reconstruction minister said Tuesday displaced people yet to return to areas of Fukushima Prefecture deemed safe to live in are “responsible for themselves,” before snapping at the reporter whose question prompted the remark. Masahiro Imamura made … Continue reading →

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Evacuation orders lifted for three more Fukushima areas but residents slow to return via The Japan Times

Posted on 2017/04/01 by nfield

FUKUSHIMA – Japan on Friday lifted its evacuation orders for the village of Iitate and two other areas that had been enforced due to the nuclear disaster at the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power station. The move came six years … Continue reading →

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In first, government and Tepco found liable for Fukushima disaster via The Japan Times

Posted on 2017/03/19 by kojimaaiko

MAEBASHI, GUNMA PREF. – A court in Japan has ruled for the first time that the government and the operator of the crippled Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant were responsible for failing to take preventive measures against the March … Continue reading →

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Few takers for free disaster relief housing in Fukushima　via The Japan Times

Posted on 2017/03/07 by nfield

FUKUSHIMA – Buildings converted from temporary housing units in Fukushima Prefecture have had few takers despite being offered free of charge, due partly to insufficient publicity, a prefectural official said Monday. Only three of 430 publicly provided temporary housing units … Continue reading →

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