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Japan Not Home-Free Despite Strong GDP

By   /  May 21, 2013  /  Economy, World  /  No Comments

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By George Leong, B.Comm. | Set You Free News In these pages, I recently discussed the amazing returns in the benchmark Nikkei 225 index in Japan and how the country is following America’s example, printing money to fuel the economy. The fact is that Japan is finally beginning to see some results from Prime Minister Shinzo [...]

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Japan confirms DPRK launched missile

By   /  May 18, 2013  /  Conflict, News, World  /  No Comments

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ANI Japanese government confirmed the DPRK’s missile launches on Saturday, saying none of the missiles have landed in Japan’s territorial waters, Kyodo news agency reported. South Korea’s Yonhap News Agency earlier reported that the DPRK launched three short-range guided missiles into the Sea of Japan on Saturday, citing the country’s defense ministry. It is reported [...]

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Fukushima: Japan sells radiation-mutated tomatoes

By   /  May 4, 2013  /  Environment, News, World  /  No Comments

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By Raymond | The Canadian Lori Mochizuki, who edits Fukushima-Diary.com, reports that capitalists in Japan are now selling clearly discernible radiation contaminated and genetically mutated tomatoes.  Mr. Mochizuki reports that such mutated plants are being increasingly found all over Japan, as the capitalist try to draw our attention elsewhere. The editor of Fukushima-Diary.com reports is [...]

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Fukushima: California rainwater manifests radiation poison symptoms

By   /  April 28, 2013  /  Environment, World  /  No Comments

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By Tanveer | The Canadian The Fukushima Nuclear disaster changed people’s perspective of nuclear energy. It even forced some countries to stop pursuing Nuclear Energy, like in the case of Italy. It reminded the people of the infamous Chernobyl incident. The tragedy also inspired many social activists in countries like India to protest against the [...]

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Fukushima’s ‘contaminated’ rice still in storage two years on

By   /  April 25, 2013  /  In Other News, World  /  No Comments

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By Tetsuya Kasai | AjwAsahi Officials are still struggling to dispose of some 17,000 tons of contaminated rice produced in Fukushima Prefecture after the nuclear disaster there two years ago. Most of the rice, called “kakurimai” (rice separated for disposal), was produced in 2011. The central government wants to incinerate the rice, but disposal facility [...]

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Radioactive mud in Fukushima school pools tops 100,000 becquerels

By   /  April 22, 2013  /  Environment, News, World  /  1 Comment

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By Masakazu Honda  | AjwAsahi Radioactive cesium levels exceeding 100,000 becquerels per kilogram were measured in mud accumulated at the bottom of swimming pools at two high schools in and around Fukushima city. Mud in the pool of a third high school in Minami-Soma, which is closer to the crippled Fukushima No. 1 nuclear plant, [...]

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Japan: More active faults under Kashiwazaki-Kariwa nuclear power plant

By   /  April 19, 2013  /  Environment, News, World  /  No Comments

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Jiji Press | The Japan News More faults may be regarded as active under the Kashiwazaki-Kariwa nuclear power plant in Niigata Prefecture, a survey by its operator, Tokyo Electric Power Co., showed Thursday. Of the plant’s seven nuclear reactors, the faults below the Nos. 3, 5, 6 and 7 reactors are now suspected of having [...]

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Plutonium found outside of containment in marine soil at Fukushima Daiichi

By   /  April 15, 2013  /  Environment, News, World  /  No Comments

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ENN TEPCO has been forced to take drastic measures to deal with the continual contamination of the Pacific Ocean from the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant.  To quell the transfer of contaminated marine soil, the utility worked to cover the ocean floor in the port with concrete. They later discovered that the fish life [...]

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Higgs boson could be composite particle: Japan researchers

By   /  April 13, 2013  /  Science & Technology  /  No Comments

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The Mainichi The Higgs boson, the particle thought to produce mass, could be a composite particle made up of other unknown particles, a research group led by an institute at Nagoya University has determined. The group, led by Nagoya University’s Kobayashi-Maskawa Institute for the Origin of Particles and the Universe, reached its conclusion after two [...]

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False alarm in Japan to warn about N. Korea’s missile launch

By   /  April 13, 2013  /  Conflict, News, World  /  No Comments

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VOR A false alarm has sounded in Japan for a third time since early this week to warn of North Korea’s ballistic missile launch, according to Japan’s Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport. The Ministry points out the error was made at the Osaka airspace control centre, whose staff was about to ask nearby airports [...]

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North Korea threat: Japan to move Patriot missiles

By   /  April 12, 2013  /  Conflict, News, World  /  No Comments

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ZeeNews Japan said on Friday it would deploy Patriot missiles in Okinawa permanently from this month as part of its efforts to boost defence capability amid concerns over North Korea’s missile threat. Defence Minister Itsunori Onodera said his ministry would station Patriot Advanced Capability 3 (PAC-3) systems at two military bases in the southern Japanese [...]

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U.S. Dollar to Become Next Japanese Yen?

By   /  April 11, 2013  /  Economy, World  /  No Comments

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By Michael Lombardi | Set You Free News Gold prices on the Tokyo Commodity Exchange have jumped 7.8% since April 4, when the central bank of Japan announced its new and aggressive round of asset purchases. (Source: Wall Street Journal, April 9, 2013.) The Bank of Japan has become notorious for printing extreme amounts of paper money. [...]

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