Leaked Japanese Report Details 'Worst-Case' Nuclear Scenario. The Japanese government predicted a worst-case scenario at the height of its nuclear crisis last year warning that tens of millions of people, including Tokyo residents, might need to evacuate the region to avoid contamination. But fearing widespread panic, authorities kept the analysis secret. The 15-page warning was compiled by experts and presented to then-prime minister Naoto Kan two weeks after the March 11 earthquake and tsunamis that triggered nuclear-reactor meltdowns at a power plant northeast of Tokyo and forced 80,000 nearby residents to flee. The twin disasters left 20,000 people dead or missing. After Mr. Kan received the report on March 25, he and other Japanese officials publicly insisted there was no need to prepare for wide-scale evacuations.
The Associated Press quotes Cabinet minister Goshi Hosono as saying the scenario was "based on hypothesis, and even in the event of such a development, we were told that residents would have enough time to evacuate. " The Democratic Party of Japan : Profile Detail.
FUKUSHIMA: Bankster Horror Video. CRASH Japan - Love On Japan 2011 - Christian Relief Assistance Support & Hope. Japan looks for friends in Naypyidaw. Burmese Foreign Minister Maung Lwin will travel to Tokyo later this month for bilateral meetings with the Japanese government, with business likely to feature high on the agenda as Japan looks to rekindle historically uneasy relations with Naypyidaw. The announcement of the 20 to 22 October visit coincides with a report in domestic press in Burma that Rangoon’s Sedona Hotel will play host to a Japan-ASEAN economic forum from 2 to 4 November.
Last month ASEAN Secretary General Surin Pitsuwan described greater ASEAN-Japan trade as “a win-win formula.” Japan’s largest business association, Keidanren, also visited Burma last month. The country has reinvigorated its efforts to engage with Burma after years of reticence following the detention of Aung San Suu Kyi in 2003, which induced the country to block all aid except disaster relief. This policy officially ended this year. Japan has several reasons to reassess ties with Burma. Japan looks for friends in Naypyidaw. Tokyo Hit With Fukushima Radiation. Fukushima Radiation Hits Tokyo CNN reports today: An extraordinarily high level of radiation was detected in one spot in a central Tokyo residential district Thursday, prompting the local government to cordon off the small area, local officials said.Radiation levels were higher in Tokyo’s Setagaya ward than in the evacuation area around the badly damaged Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant, according to ward Mayor Nobuto Hosaka.
“We are shocked to see such high radiation level was detected in our neighborhood. We cannot leave it as is,” Hosaka told reporters.But the tsunami-struck Fukushima plant may not be the source of the radiation, Hosaka said later on state television.Officials searching for the cause found “glass bottles in a cardboard box” in the basement of a house in the neighborhood which sent radiation detectors off the charts, he said on NHK. Perhaps it is just some random contaminated bottles. But as the Wall Street Journal reported yesterday: The Australian noted today: Greenpeace: Fukushima schools unsafe after clean-up. By Natalia Konstantinovskaya TOKYO Mon Aug 29, 2011 11:14am BST TOKYO (Reuters) - Greenpeace said on Monday that schools and surrounding areas located 60 km (38 miles) from Japan's tsunami-hit nuclear power plant were unsafe for children, showing radiation readings as much as 70 times internationally accepted levels.
The environmental group took samples at and near three schools in Fukushima city, well outside the 20 km exclusion zone from Tokyo Electric Power's stricken Fukushima Daiichi nuclear complex in Japan's northeast. "No parent should have to choose between radiation exposure and education for their child," said Kazue Suzuki, Greenpeace Japan's anti-nuclear project head. The government had already taken steps to decontaminate schools in Fukushima prefecture, where the crippled plant has been leaking radiation since it was hit by the March 11 earthquake and tsunami. Fukushima city dismissed Greenpeace's calls, saying the schools were safe under the government's norms.