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Hajime Yoshii was chosen as best actor in the international category in the 20th Golden Rooster and Hundred Flowers Film Festival, in Hefei, Anhui Province. Yoshii plays the lead role in a film titled "Eclair--Okashihoroki." The film is set in Ishinomaki City, Miyagi Prefecture, one of the areas worst-hit by the March earthquake and tsunami. It depicts how an orphaned boy grew up in the days immediately after World War 2 by finding comfort in sweets and developing relationships with people through sweets.
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Hamaoka Nuclear Power Plant must be shut down - The Mainichi Daily News
The risk of containment damage at Fukushima was put at one in a million, per reactor per year The accepted wisdom has been that the consequences of a catastrophic nuclear accident may be large, but that the frequency is low. The industry and nuclear regulators calculate this on the basis of the likelihood of an accident for any one operating year. In the case of the design of the first four reactors at Fukushima, the Japanese Nuclear Energy Safety Organization estimated in 2002 : "The frequency of occurrence of a core damage accident is 1/100,000 or less per one year for one reactor and the frequency of occurrence of an accident leading to containment damage is 1/1,000,000 or less per one year for one reactor."
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Ordeal Continues for Japan's Nuclear Evacuees | News | English
I n a televised address to the nation, Japan’s Prime Minister Naoto Kan has said the evacuation of residents from around the stricken Fukushima power plant will be long term. An estimated 70,000 people have been moved from settlements near the plant. Much of the population of Futaba town were evacuated to a huge stadium on the outskirts of the capital, Tokyo.Japanese Plant Had Barebones Risk Plan - WSJ.com
TOKYO— Tokyo Electric Power Co.'s 9501.TO +3.18% disaster plans greatly underestimated the scope of a potential accident at its Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant, calling for only one stretcher, one satellite phone and 50 protective suits in case of emergencies. Disaster-response documents for Fukushima Daiichi, examined by The Wall Street Journal, also contain few guidelines for obtaining outside help, providing insight into why Japan struggled to cope with a nuclear crisis after an earthquake and tsunami devastated the facility. Inside Look at Nuclear Plant's Crisis Plan The disaster plans, approved by Japanese regulators, offer guidelines for responding to smaller emergencies and outline in detail how to back up key systems in case of failure.
BOSTON, April 1 (Reuters) - General Electric Co ( GE.N ) Chief Executive Jeff Immelt is headed to Japan to meet with officials including executives at Tokyo Electric Power Co ( 9501.T ), which operates the Fukushima power plant that is the site of the world's worst nuclear disaster since Chernobyl. "He is going to Japan to meet with customers, partners and employees. He does have a meeting with Tepco," company spokeswoman Deirdre Latour said on Friday. Engineers at GE, which designed the reactors used in the Fukushima plant, have been advising on response to the nuclear crisis, but not directly, instead working through Hitachi Ltd ( 6501.T ), GE's joint venture partner in the nuclear business, GE spokesmen have said. The chief executive of French reactor maker Areva CEPFi.PA, Anne Lauvergeon, has already appeared in Japan, saying on Thursday that she wanted to send staff to help handle the crisis.
GE's Immelt to meet with Tepco officials in Japan | Reuters
PhotoBlog - Panoramic image from inside the passenger terminal of the airport in Sendai, Japan
About 1,200 people were trapped inside the Sendai Airport passenger terminal when the earthquake and resulting tsunami struck on March 11. They remained cut off from all outside contact and had to survive on their own for more than two days until help arrived. This panoramic image, made on March 17, shows the damage to the interior of the airport. (Masaki Furumaya / Sankei Shimbun / MSN Japan)
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