Survivors of the March 11, 2011 earthquake and tsunami who were forced to evacuate following the multiple meltdown at the Fukushima Dai-Ichi nuclear power plant are taking legal action against the power company operating the plant and the Japanese government, for damages caused by the disaster. TOKYO (majirox news) — At least 350 Fukushima...
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Korea attempts to recruit Japanese nuclear engineers. TOKYO (majirox news) — South Korean government officials have been targeting TEPCO (Tokyo Electric Power Company) officials, in an attempt to persuade them to move to South Korea. Two executive engineers were approached late last year, but turned down the offer to work in a South Korean...
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TOKYO (majirox news) — Nuclear disaster victims are blasting Tokyo Electric Power Co. (TEPCO) over Japanese cyberspace for producing compensation application forms they say are too complicated and onerous to complete. TEPCO’s application forms sent out this week run to 60 pages and only cover the period from March 11, the day an earthquake...
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TOKYO (majirox news) — Popular actress Anne Suzuki, once the campaign girl from Japan’s nuclear waste management, has raised ripples online by saying these appearances “were the first things I regretted in my life” in an Aug. 5 tweet. Suzuki began a series of tweets early Friday, focusing on the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear crisis...
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TOKYO (majirox news) — Prime Minister Naoto Kan reaffirmed his desire for Japan to stop using nuclear power generation on July 14, but senior Democratic Party of Japan figures and business leaders offered little support. “We faced the threat of having to evacuate 30 million people from Tokyo, Yokohama, the capital area, because of...
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TOKYO (majirox news) — Cabinet in-fighting has heightened amid Prime Minister Naoto Kan’s sudden order to conduct stress tests on all Japan’s nuclear plants, threatening to further deepen the country’s summer power shortage crisis. Kan has made resumption of operations at halted nuclear plants conditional upon them passing the stress tests. These are examinations...
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TOKYO (majirox news) – Radiation from the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant is not leaking evenly and many parts of the United States have higher radiation levels than Japan, according to Safecast.org, which uses volunteers armed with bento box (lunch box) monitors to gather radiation data. Safecast, an international volunteer organization, works with Tokyo HackerSpace...
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OSAKA (majirox news) — Osaka Gov. Toru Hashimoto has backed down and agreed to enforce power-saving measures at the Osaka Prefectural Government offices after having steadfastly refused for months, calling such steps “meaningless.” Hashimoto immediately began implementing power-saving steps on Monday afternoon following a meeting with the heads of prefectural government departments earlier in...
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TOKYO (majirox news) – “It breaks my heart,” wrote British Chamber Commerce Japan, (BCCJ) volunteer driver Dru Taylor on the Wecare Web site. “The main reason we do what we do is the thought of our own kids going without food, especially fruits and vegetables, and especially after going through what the people in...
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KORIYAMA, Fukushima (majirox news) — Koriyama Municipal Government must move its schools to safe areas as fears grow of radiation damage from the leaking Fukushima Daiichi nuclear reactor, according to a lawsuit filed here on June 24. In a suit filed at the Koriyama Branch of the Fukushima District Court, parents of 14 pupils...
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