Update: Japan’s Prime Minister nuking the nukers
Update: According to the weekly magazine Shukan Shincho, Prime Minister Naoto Kan’s decision to shut down the Hamaoka power plant and compensate the victims of the Fukushima Daicihi accident has been...
View ArticleUpdate: TEPCO prez to step down
TOKYO (majirox news) – Masataka Shimizu, the outgoing president of Tokyo Electric Power Co., TEPCO, will step down to take responsibility for “damaging the public’s trust and causing inconvenience.”...
View ArticleKan says early election ‘unthinkable’
Elections in JapanTOKYO (majirox news) — Prime Minister Naoto Kan said July 8 he has “not given it a single thought” about dissolving the Diet so voters can express their views about Japan’s energy...
View ArticlePM says Fukushima cleanup could take ‘several decades’
Cleaning-up at Fukushima nuclear power plantTOKYO (majirox news) – The clean-up of the leaking Fukushima Daiichi nuclear reactor could take “several decades,” Prime Minister Naoto Kan told a Democratic...
View ArticleOver 100,000 disaster victims still away from homes
Evacuation Zones in northeast JapanTOKYO (majirox news) — Four months after the March 11 disasters struck the Tohoku Region, more than 100,000 people remain evacuated from their homes, a quarter of...
View ArticleKan reaffirms anti-nuke stance amid backlash from DPJ, business
Prime Minister Naoto KanTOKYO (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...
View ArticleKan to stand down as prime minister
Naoto Kan TOKYO (majirox news) — Prime Minister Naoto Kan kept his word to stand down upon passage through the Diet of a series of bills related to recovery from the March 11 disasters when he resigned...
View ArticleWhat was the response to the Fukushima nuclear disaster? We don’t know.
METI bureaucrats were “too busy” to do their job TOKYO (majirox news) — It has recently come to light that the task force managing the Fukushima nuclear disaster has no records of its meetings. The...
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