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Japanese, in Shortage, Willingly Ration Watts - NYTimes.com
As he has done these past six summers, Mr. Kuniyuki spends his days making sure the lights and air-conditioning have not been left on in empty classrooms. Whenever he finds students in a classroom, he turns off the air-conditioning and inquires about the lights. Now backed by a colleague newly assigned to the patrols, Mr. Kuniyuki has been able to strategically map out their routes throughout the campus and outwit students who used to switch the lights back on as soon as they saw his back.A Dodo robot figure, swiveling to address Alice and the visitors to the building, declares that there is an “ace” form of energy called nuclear power. It is clean, safe and renewable if you reprocess uranium and plutonium, the Dodo says. “Wow, you can even do that!” Alice says of nuclear power.
‘Safety Myth’ Left Japan Ripe for Nuclear Crisis - NYTimes.com
SENDAI (Kyodo) The Japan Coast Guard managed to save a small brown dog Friday from a floating rooftop 1.8 km off Miyagi Prefecture, three weeks after a massive tsunami ravaged the northeast coast. The canine castaway was spotted by helicopter at around 4 p.m. by a special rescue unit from the 3rd Regional Coast Guard Headquarters, operating out of Yokohama. The team's initial rescue attempt failed after the dog, perhaps scared by the hovering helicopter, jumped from the roof over to nearby driftwood. A rescue boat with three guardsmen was then dispatched and succeeded in catching the pooch an hour later by using rescue stretchers. The dog, which was wearing a black collar that had no indication of who its owner might be, was fed biscuits and sausages aboard the coast guard vessel and is behaving itself, the coast guard said.
Dog three weeks at sea saved | The Japan Times Online
In the 11-minute recording , the mayor, Katsunobu Sakurai, described the dire situation facing Minamisoma, whose residents were still reeling from a devastating earthquake and 60-foot tsunami when they were ordered to stay indoors because of radiation leaks from ’s crippled nuclear plant, 15 miles away. Those who had not fled now faced starvation, he said, as they were trapped in their homes or refugee shelters by the nuclear alert, which also prevented shipments of food from arriving. “We are left isolated,” Mr. Sakurai said urgently into the camera, his brow furrowed and his voice strained with exhaustion. “I beg you, as the mayor of Minamisoma city, to help us.”
Minamisoma Mayor’s YouTube Plea Gets Big Response - NYTimes.com
New quake disrupts power to cooling unit at nuclear plant -
Updated 2011-04-07 5:41 PM Update at 1:11 p.m. ET: NHK World TV reports minor injuries and minor damage from a magnitude-7.1 quake , ranging from cuts and bruises to at least one broken leg. In addition, no major damage has been reported, although power outages have caused considerable travel problems because of outages of street and traffic lights. The quake was initially reported as a magnitude-7.4 quake.
Japan disaster likely to be world's costliest - Yahoo! Finance
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Japan faces its next chore: cleaning up - Yahoo! News
Foreign media take flak for fanning fears | The Japan Times Online
OSAKA — Some foreign media coverage of the crisis at the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant has been so extreme it has fanned fears of a deadly radiation cloud descending on Tokyo and turning residents into walking zombies, before drifting across the oceans to menace the United States and Ireland. According to another "fact," authorities have been warning those in a position to leave Tokyo to flee the city immediately, because another severe quake or an eruption at Mount Fuji could spark a meltdown at the "Shibuya Eggman nuclear reactor" — which in reality is a live house, or concert hall, in Tokyo. Laugh if you want, but a large number of domestic and overseas critics charge that such fear-mongering is responsible for causing the international panic over the Fukushima plant, and for persuading many foreign and Japanese residents of Tokyo to leave, either temporarily or permanently.
Quake Deals New Blow to Japanese Towns - WSJ.com
RIKUZENTAKATA, Iwate Prefecture—Many towns hit by last week's quake and tsunami were already in a steady decline. Now, local leaders are facing the reality that instead of rebuilding their communities, they may just fade away. "To be honest, I can't predict at what point people will feel like trying again," said Futoshi Toba, mayor of this northeastern seaside town. Mr.
More: Information on Japan's Earthquake and Tsunamis | How You Can Help | Travel-Related and Contact Information | For concerns about a specific U.S. citizen in Japan, email JapanEmergencyUSC@state.gov . Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton signed the book of condolences at the Embassy of Japan in Washington, D.C., on March 22, 2011. After signing, Secretary Clinton said, "...it is with a very heavy heart that I come to pay my respects to the people of Japan who have endured so much in the last weeks. This has been an unprecedented disaster, but it has provoked an unprecedented show of resilience by the Japanese people and a pledge of cooperation and friendship from the American people. We will be with Japan and the people of Japan as you recover and rebuild, and we will stand with you in the months and years ahead.
Secretary Clinton Signs Book of Condolences at Japanese Embassy | U.S. Department of State Blog
Human suffering is certainly our main concern in the immediate aftermath of Japan's 3/11 tragedy. But even as we focus on immediate human needs, we cannot avoid recognizing — and coping with — the long economic shadow cast by this disaster. The direct impact on real economic activity worldwide is already being felt. The destruction will surely cost Japan many times the $132 billion that the 1995 Kobe earthquake did, making it one of the Japan's most costly natural disasters. Transportation disruptions and the closing of many factories throughout Japan will shrink Japanese aggregate demand and disrupt supply chains worldwide.
The Economic Impact of the Japanese Disasters - W. Carl Kester - HBS Faculty - Harvard Business Review
Posted Wednesday 23rd March 2011 from Twitlonger #Japan : N-crisis hinders search for parents /12-year-old Yuki escaped #tsunami by running to nearby hill,later reunited w/ brother http://bit.ly/g2s40x via @DailyYomiuri http://tl.gd/9e73oq · Reply
Japan: N-crisis hinders search for parents /12-year-old Yuki escaped #tsunami by running to nearby
I know it’s easier to criticize than to write it, but if something that has been this blatantly reported in the last day or two is incorrect, what else in it is wrong? Here’s a twitter post from Reuters from 03/23 4:20am JST with part of the article, pay special attention to the part in bold. Senior IAEA official Graham Andrew said that the overall situation remained “very serious” and that the U.N. atomic watchdog was concerned it had not received some information from Japan about the Fukushima nuclear plant. “We have not received validated information for some time related to the containment integrity of unit 1. So we are concerned that we do not know its exact status,” he said.
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