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Olympic flame to stay a month in Fukushima; Next stop Tokyo? via ABC News

Posted on 2020/04/01 by nfield

TOKYO — The Olympic flame will be on display until the end of April in Japan‘s northeastern prefecture of Fukushima. Tokyo Olympic and prefecture officials held an official “handover ceremony”on Wednesday at the J-Village National Training Center in Fukushima. The public … Continue reading →

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Cancel.The.Olympics via the New York Times

Posted on 2020/03/18 by nfield

By Jules Boykoff Despite the coronavirus pandemic, the International Olympic Committee and Tokyo 2020 Olympic organizers insist that the Tokyo 2020 Summer Games will go on. Even with widespread cancellations in European soccer, Formula One auto racing, and professional and collegiate basketball … Continue reading →

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Free use of Map of Soil Radioactivity at the time of the Tokyo Olympics via Minna-no Data Site

Posted on 2020/03/16 by nfield

Starting from March 11, 2020, Minna-no Data Site will be offering free use of Map of Soil Radioactivity in 17 Prefectures in Eastern Japan at the time of the Tokyo Olympics ~The government of Japan has yet to conduct a … Continue reading →

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Typhoons cut Fukushima radiation, likely created hotspots via The Asahi Shimbun

Posted on 2020/03/15 by nfield

FUKUSHIMA–Typhoons that battered Japan in October reduced radiation levels of some parts of Fukushima Prefecture significantly, but might have created radiation hot spots, according to the environmental group Greenpeace. Greenpeace Japan, a Tokyo-based nongovernmental organization, on March 9 released the … Continue reading →

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We condemn the Tokyo Police’s house search against our comrade in the Anti-Olympics struggle!　via No Olympics 2020

Posted on 2020/03/15 by nfield

日本語版はこちら한글판은 여기 Around 8am on February 18th, the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department (TMPD) invaded and conducted an unjust house search at the residential tent of our comrade “A” who has been protesting the Olympics with us. Their warrant stated that A … Continue reading →

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Starting the Olympic torch relay in Fukushima should remind us of the dangers of nuclear power　via The Japan Times

Posted on 2020/03/13 by nfield

BY CASSANDRA JEFFERY AND M. V. RAMANA VANCOUVER – If the Tokyo Olympics are held on schedule, thousands of athletes will soon come to Japan. Considering the multiple reactors that melted down there nine years ago, in March 2011, the government’s decision to start … Continue reading →

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Statement on 9th Anniversary of Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Disaster: Don’t Let the Olympics Obscure the True Impacts via FoE Japan

Posted on 2020/03/11 by nfield

Nine years have passed since the Great East Japan Earthquake and tsunami struck the Tohoku region on March 11, 2011, and the ensuing accident at the TEPCO Daiichi nuclear power plant. The impacts of this nuclear accident continue to this … Continue reading →

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Japanese Government has failed to decontaminate Fukushima: Greenpeace via Arirang News

Posted on 2020/03/11 by nfield
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A message from Sumio Konno・今野寿美雄, a former nuclear engineer, on the Fukushima Nuclear Disaster via the Manhattan Project for a Nuclear-Free World・核の無い世界を目指すマンハッタンプロジェクト

Posted on 2020/03/09 by nfield

Manhattan Project for a Nuclear-Free World SUBSCRIBE[ Voices from Japan: 9 years after the Fukushima nuclear disaster ] 2020 March video project by Manhattan Project for a Nuclear-Free World English subtitle by John Baldwin, Karen Rogers, Mari Inoue, Rachel Clark, … Continue reading →

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Japan opens part of last town off-limits since nuclear leaks via The Post-Star

Posted on 2020/03/04 by nfield

By Mari Yamaguchi TOKYO (AP) — Japan’s government on Wednesday opened part of the last town that had been off-limits due to radiation since the Fukushima nuclear disaster nine years ago, in a symbolic move to show the region’s recovery … Continue reading →

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