Russia started military exercises in the remote far east of the country, prompting protests from neighboring Japan at a time when its troops are also active in eastern Europe and on the Ukrainian border. The drills in the Kuril islands started yesterday with more than 1,000 troops, five helicopters and about 100 pieces of equipment, […] Continue reading → 
Hundreds of flights were cancelled in Japan and more than 500,000 people urged to evacuate as a powerful typhoon brought torrential rain and high winds to southwestern islands and was forecast to reach Tokyo later in the week. Typhoon Neoguri weakened from its original status as a super typhoon but remained intense, with gusts of […] Continue reading → 
Trouble is looming at Japan’s Fukushima nuclear plant, as a leak has forced the shutdown of a cooling system that could cause temperatures to exceed dangerous levels. Fukushima operator Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO) was forced to switch off the cooling system at Reactor Unit 5, after engineers discovered it had been leaking water. If […] Continue reading → 
Japan Braces for Supertyphoon Neoguri Powerful Storm Expected to Bring Heavy Rains, Landslides, Floods A super typhoon described as a “once in decades storm” was heading north for Japan on Monday, set to rake the southern Okinawa island chain with heavy rain and powerful winds before making landfall on Kyushu, Japan’s westernmost main island. Typhoon […] Continue reading → 
Save Children from Radiation – by Michitaka Kobayashi “Something serious is going on”. As I climbed the steep stairs to the Yamatsumi shinto shrine from the entrance gateway at the bottom of the mountain, the view over the beautiful Iitate village surrounded by the rich nature appeared in front of me. There was once a […] Continue reading → 
The U.S. Air Force has deployed two of its most advanced long-distance surveillance drones to a base in northern Japan over the past week, enhancing its ability to monitor nuclear activities in North Korea and Chinese naval operations. The deployment of the two unarmed Global Hawk drones to Japan, a key U.S. ally, is intended […] Continue reading → 
You have to wonder how much people get paid to read lies off of cue cards to the American public Sometimes you have to wonder how much people get paid to read lies off of cue cards to the American public. CBS KPIX 5 went on record recently to tell everyone concerned about radiation levels floating […] Continue reading → 
The Nuclear Core Has Finally Been Found … Scattered All Over the World Washington’s Blog Fukushima did not just suffer meltdowns, or even melt-throughs … It suffered melt-OUTS … where the nuclear core of at least one reactor was spread all over Japan. In addition, the Environmental Research Department, SRI Center for Physical Sciences and […] Continue reading → 
U.S. President Barack Obama has said Washington welcomes China’s rise but that engagement with Beijing would not come at the expense of its Asian allies - as Chinese state media greeted his arrival in the region with a broadside accusing the United States of wanting to “cage” the emerging superpower. The reassuring remarks aimed at […] Continue reading → 
Manabu Tsukagoshi, a Tokyo-based consultant, took a month of paternity leave after his second child was born. That prompted his stay-at-home wife to get a full-time job in the financial industry. “When someone asks why I would take such leave when my wife was a stay-at-home mom, I tell them it was for her to […] Continue reading → 
Katsutaka Idogawa, former mayor of Futaba, a town near the disabled Fukushima nuclear plant, is warning his country that radiation contamination is affecting Japan’s greatest treasure – its children. Asked about government plans to relocate the people of Fatuba to the city of Iwaki, inside the Fukushima prefecture, Idogawa criticized the move as a “violation of […] Continue reading → 
Japan began its first military expansion at the western end of its island chain in more than 40 years on Saturday, breaking ground on a radar station on a tropical island off Taiwan. The move risks angering China, locked in a dispute with Japan over nearby islands which they both claim. Japanese Defense Minister Itsunori […] Continue reading → 
A pump at Japan’s battered Fukushima power plant has mistakenly flooded its basements with highly contaminated cooling-tank water. But the latest mishap follows a far more worrying discovery about one last year’s leak. About 200 tons of water ended up flooding the basements beneath the complex, although the water didn’t have a pathway to reach […] Continue reading → 
Japan dispatched fighter jets to pursue Chinese aircraft flying close to its airspace 415 times over the past year, up about a third from the previous year, the Ministry of Defense said yesterday in a press release on its website. The increase comes amid a territorial dispute between Asia’s two largest economies over a chain […] Continue reading →