information about Fukushima published in English in Japanese media info publiée en anglais dans la presse japonaise
N-compensation criteria set / Center urges TEPCO to pay without confirmation of assets' condition http://www.yomiuri.co.jp/dy/national/T120217005650.htm The Yomiuri Shimbun The government's dispute resolution center for damage caused by the crisis at...
February 16, 2012 South Korea headhunting top TEPCO nuclear engineers http://mdn.mainichi.jp/mdnnews/news/20120216p2a00m0na012000c.html South Korea has been trying to hire top nuclear experts from Tokyo Electric Power Co. (TEPCO) in the wake of the meltdowns...
Survey reveals radiation doses / 58% of Fukushima residents likely exposed to less than 1 millisievert http://www.yomiuri.co.jp/dy/national/T120220004953.htm FUKUSHIMA--About 58 percent of Fukushima Prefecture residents were likely externally exposed...
February 20, 2012 'Bikini incident' survivor's story relevant today as Fukushima crisis continues http://mdn.mainichi.jp/mdnnews/news/20120220p2a00m0na009000c.html Eleven months since the outbreak of the nuclear disaster at the Fukushima No. 1 Nuclear...
Fukushima nuclear plant shown to media, plant chief apologizes for water leaks http://mdn.mainichi.jp/mdnnews/news/20120221p2a00m0na014000c.html Several workers are seen tending to the remains of the No. 4 reactor that was heavily damaged by a hydrogen...
February 21, 2012 Gov't emergency headquarters refused to conduct additional thyroid testing on children http://mdn.mainichi.jp/mdnnews/news/20120221p2a00m0na018000c.html The government's Nuclear Emergency Response Headquarters did not fulfill requests...
February 22, 2012 Safety certification system for plant factories to be launched with view to disaster areas http://mdn.mainichi.jp/mdnnews/news/20120222p2a00m0na021000c.html A private-sector safety certification system for plant factories that can produce...
Fe Children's radiation doses to guide decontamination in Fukushima Pref. city http://mdn.mainichi.jp/mdnnews/news/20120223p2a00m0na009000c.html SOMA, Fukushima -- City authorities here will prioritize decontamination of areas where children's external...
February 23, 2012 Assembly member realtor's high rent for factory linked to promotion of nuclear power http://mdn.mainichi.jp/mdnnews/news/20120223p2a00m0na008000c.html TAKAHAMA, Fukui -- A town assembly member who runs a real estate company has received...
February 24, 2012 New technology can remove 99.9 percent of radioactive cesium in soil http://mdn.mainichi.jp/mdnnews/news/20120224p2a00m0na022000c.html New technology that can remove up to 99.9 percent of radioactive cesium in contaminated soil has been...
February 24, 2012 Stricter limits on radiation in food to start April 1 in Japan http://mdn.mainichi.jp/mdnnews/news/20120224p2g00m0dm084000c.html TOKYO (Kyodo) -- Japan will enforce stricter limits on radioactive cesium found in food, which come between...
February 24, 2012 Foreign nuclear experts discuss Fukushima http://www3.nhk.or.jp/daily/english/20120224_36.html Foreign nuclear experts are discussing the Fukushima nuclear accident at a conference in Tokyo. The Japanese government panel investigating...
No-fly zone over Fukushima plant scaled back http://www3.nhk.or.jp/daily/english/20120225_12.html Japan's transport ministry has scaled back the no-fly zone over the troubled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant as radioactivity over the site has dropped to...
February 25, 2012 Gov't to demand resignation of entire TEPCO board http://mdn.mainichi.jp/mdnnews/news/20120225p2a00m0na011000c.html The government is set to demand that all 17 board members of Tokyo Electric Power Co. (TEPCO), operator of the crippled...
PM Noda vows to examine possibility of zero nuclear dependency http://mainichi.jp/english/english/newsselect/news/20120806p2g00m0dm068000c.html HIROSHIMA (Kyodo) -- Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda said Monday he will instruct his Cabinet members to consider...
Noda stresses on nuclear-free world in Hiroshima http://www3.nhk.or.jp/daily/english/20120806_18.html Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda says Japan needs to teach younger generations about the horrors of nuclear weapons. He also says it is time for Japan to...
August 8, 2012 http://www.beyondnuclear.org/children-health/2012/8/8/proof-enough-thyroid-abnormalities-in-children-after-fukushi.html Proof enough: Thyroid abnormalities in children after Fukushima Following the recent discovery that 36% of nearly 40,000...
Rice tested for radiation in experiment in Fukushima A JA worker tests rice for radiation at a JA Michinoku Adachi facility in Motomiya, Fukushima Prefecture, on Aug. 7. (Mainichi) 拡大写真 http://mainichi.jp/english/english/newsselect/news/20120808p2a00m0na017000c.html...
August 10, 2012 Hibakusha: Nuke safety biggest lie By SHINGO ITO AFP-Jiji http://www.japantimes.co.jp/text/nn20120810f2.html HIROSHIMA — The marks that still scar Sunao Tsuboi's face from the 1945 bombing of Hiroshima are a grim reminder of the power...
August 10, 2012 Entry ban lifted in a town in Fukushima http://www3.nhk.or.jp/daily/english/20120810_23.html The Japanese government has lifted its entry ban on part of a town in Fukushima Prefecture that had high levels of radiation caused by the nuclear...
August 11, 2012 IAEA: Nuke plant near Fukushima largely undamaged http://mainichi.jp/english/english/newsselect/news/20120811p2g00m0dm040000c.html TOKYO (AP) -- The Japanese nuclear power plant that was closest to the epicenter of last year's earthquake...
August 14, 2012 Water leak found at Fukushima Daiichi plant http://www3.nhk.or.jp/daily/english/20120814_26.html Tokyo Electric Power Company has reported a radioactive water leak at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant's Number 4 reactor. The utility...
August 13, 2012 TEPCO's Fukushima nuke plant exec recalls hydrogen blast as greatest shock Masao Yoshida, former head of the Fukushima No. 1 Nuclear Power Plant, speaks during a video interview. http://mainichi.jp/english/english/newsselect/news/20120813p2a00m0na019000c.html...
August 14, 2012 Govt. to survey Fukushima disaster zone pet owners http://www3.nhk.or.jp/daily/english/20120814_19.html The Japanese government plans to ask evacuees from around the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant to decide whether they will take...
August 17, 2012 Ohi No.4 reactor begins commercial operation http://www3.nhk.or.jp/daily/english/20120816_38.html Another reactor at the Ohi nuclear power plant in central Japan has returned to full commercial operation. The reactor had been in test-run...
