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Japan radiation poisoning America?

(RT photo) Like a slow-motion train wreck, the Fukushima nuclear plant disaster is still causing damage long after the world’s media has left the news story behind. On March 11, 2011, the most powerful earthquake ever to hit Japan triggered a tsunami with waves that reached as high as 144 feet. These waves swamped the Fukushima nuclear power-plant complex, causing a resulting shutdown leading to the world’s worst nuclear incident since the 1986 Chernobyl disaster. The accident has been rated a level 7, on a scale of 1 to 7, on the International Nuclear Event Scale. View Article.

A substantial epidemic of Mycoplasma pneumoniae infection was reported in late 2011 in some European countries.

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We report here an epidemic of M. pneumoniae infection that began in Jerusalem during 2010 and is still ongoing. This report complements current information on what might be a worldwide epidemic of M. pneumoniae infection that might require substantial coordinated international public health intervention. March 11 and Great East Japan Earthquake Remembered from Distant Tokyo. March 11 and Great East Japan Earthquake Remembered from Distant Tokyo Lee Jay Walker Modern Tokyo Times On the morning of March 11, 2011, everything seemed normal in trendy Tokyo because the trains were jammed packed and the city was buzzing along like always.

March 11 and Great East Japan Earthquake Remembered from Distant Tokyo

However, during the afternoon everything changed after the powerful 9.0-magnitude earthquake hit Japan. Official detects radiation spike on California beach, now at 500% normal levels — ‘Befuddled’ as to why it’s so high, claims there’s no ‘immediate’ health concern — Public’s interest in Fukushima nuclear waste rising. Book review: Philomena Keet and Yuri Manabe's *The Tokyo Look Book: Stylish To Spectacular, Goth To Gyaru, Sidewalk To Catwalk* The Tokyo Look Book: Stylish To Spectacular, Goth To Gyaru, Sidewalk To Catwalk by Philomena Keet · Other · Craft Library on Cut Out. Tokyo is home to the most creative and stylish fashion in the world.

The Tokyo Look Book: Stylish To Spectacular, Goth To Gyaru, Sidewalk To Catwalk by Philomena Keet · Other · Craft Library on Cut Out

The Tokyo Look Book takes us on a dazzling journey through the streets, clubs, and boutiques of this trendsetting city to introduce us to the people who wear the latest fashions and the people who make them. THE TOKYO LOOK BOOK: What's Hot in Japanese Fashion! Prada, suicide and sexual harassment: A whistle-blower speaks out. This spring the United Nations urged Japan to make workplace sexual harassment illegal, a move reportedly spurred by the four-year legal saga of Prada ex-employee Rina Bovrisse, who was routed in Tokyo court and now faces a countersuit for alleged defamation.

Prada, suicide and sexual harassment: A whistle-blower speaks out

In a recent interview, Bovrisse told Salon that when she challenged “pure discrimination,” including regulation of women’s weight and teeth, Prada responded by purging her from the company and accusing her of mental illness. “They thought I could be eliminated from society,” charged Bovrisse. Asked about Bovrisse’s allegations, a Prada spokesperson emailed Salon, “In our opinion, this is just an instrumentalization, that is to say an attempt to use highly ethical issues for mere personal interests.

Prada is now aiming to establish before the Tokyo District Court that the initiatives promoted by Ms. Japan: no safe country for foreign women. I’ve lived in Japan on and off for several years, and I’ve always felt safe on my bicycle here, particularly as I often see young and old women alike biking at all hours of the night.

Japan: no safe country for foreign women

But after an event a few weeks ago, I feel as if this false sense of security has been stripped away. Notification You’ve reached your story limit as a non-registered user. To read more, please sign up or log in via one of the services below. This will give you access to 15 additional stories this month. In science terms, Japan has no need at all to kill whales. Final arguments from the defence and prosecution were heard in mid-July, and the world court is now considering its judgment.

In science terms, Japan has no need at all to kill whales

At issue is Japan’s right to conduct its seasonal “scientific” whaling program in Antarctic waters. But the case has involved arguments about how to define science itself. The legal challenge to Japan has been brought to the International Court of Justice (ICJ) in the Hague by Australia, which has asked the Netherlands-based court to find that Japan’s whaling program is illegal because it is actually commercial whaling — not scientific research that is permissable under the 1982 moratorium on commercial whaling declared by the International Whaling Commission (IWC), which went into effect in the 1985/86 coastal and pelagic hunting seasons.

On June 1, 2010, Australia initiated proceedings at the ICJ against Japan, alleging breach of international obligations concerning whaling. Japan contends that Australia has embarked on an “alarmist crusade” against whaling. List of animals in Japan. Wildlife Center of Silicon Valley: Rehabilitation & Release, Education & Outreach. Wild Animals in Japan. A colony of wild macaque monkeys live on Mount Arashiyama, on the outskirts of Kyoto.

Wild Animals in Japan

When you think of Japan, the images that come to mind are probably of big crowded cities full of people, but there’s a lot of nature too. Most of Japan consists of steep mountains, thickly covered in dense forest. As this doesn’t make for a very hospitable environment, most Japanese live on the coastal plains, leaving large expanses of pristine natural environment largely untouched by humanity. Japan Geigermap: At-a-glance. RADIATION EFFECTS IN U.S. FROM JAPAN NUKE ACCIDENT. November 25, 2013 -- (TRN ) -- Radiation reaching the United States from the nuclear meltdowns in Fukushima, Japan is causing significant harm; affecting newborn Human babies in California, Pacific Ocean sea life, and even inland wild life.

RADIATION EFFECTS IN U.S. FROM JAPAN NUKE ACCIDENT

Radiation is causing massive die-offs of sea life as well as mammals, birds and reptiles inland. High percentages of inland animals that are not already dead are losing their fur, bleeding from lesions all over their bodies and failing to reproduce. Radiation contamination of sea food is already confirmed and contamination of the inland food supply is now taking place as rain carries radiation from the Pacific ocean to inland farms. U.S. Government propagandists are claiming everything is all right - but they aren't even monitoring radiation levels - while scientists outside the government are warning the worst is yet to come.

The tsunami arrived 50 minutes after the initial earthquake. Homeless in Japan hired to clean up Fukushima nuclear radiation. People living rough in Japan are providing contractors in Japan’s nuclear disaster zone with an opportunity.

Homeless in Japan hired to clean up Fukushima nuclear radiation

Three years ago, a massive earthquake set off multiple meltdowns at the Fukushima nuclear plant. Today, the radiation clean up is behind schedule. The men in Sendai Station are potential labourers that can be dispatched for a bounty of around 70 euros a head. Shizuya Nishiyama says he’s scrubbed down radioactive hotspots in the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant twice: