19 Killed in Knife Attack
From Yahoo! News: Sagamihara (Japan) (AFP) – A knife-wielding former employee killed 19 people and injured 25 at a care centre for the mentally disabled in Japan on Tuesday, …
Category: Japan
US Sailors Sue Claiming Fukushima Disaster Gave Them Cancer
More than 50 US sailors are suing Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO) for contracting cancer while helping Japan during the tsunami that caused the country’s Fukushima nuclear plant to …
Two Years Later: Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami
As predicted last year, this year's anniversary is once again a nuclear non-event.
One Year Later; Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami
The Tōhoku earthquake was bad, the tsunami was a disaster. Fukushima was a non-event.
A Fukushima Update
Full on meltdown contained as designed. Public Health effects nil.
"They have committed themselves to die if necessary to save the nation"
That from a mother of one of the Fukushima nuclear plant workers: The so-called Fukushima 50, the team of brave plant workers struggling to prevent a meltdown to four …
"The sheer relentlessness of the great wave"
American Digest's Gerard Vanderleun has found a tsunami video I'd not seen before and it's devastating in its depiction of the destruction that ensued. Vanderleun's accompanying comments are dead …
In Praise of George Monbiot
The absence of the plant's power from the grid is far more likely to result in death or serious illness and injury than the radiological and other effects of …
Thoughts on Japan From a Katrina Survivor
Part 1, The destruction.
As many of you know, after Katrina devastated New Orleans, I spent several months studying why it happened and the damage from the storm. I probably single-handedly made the …
Elderly Japanese man found on roof 10 miles out to sea (UPDATED)
UPDATE: Title changed out of respect for those older than I but not quite elderly, especially those frequent commenters who took offense... I aim to please.Here's a good news …