tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10675098687862326342024-03-12T22:48:06.087-07:00Real Voices of Japan EarthquakeHear the voice from those affected by the earthquake and tsunami in Japan that hit the country on March 11, 2011. These are translations of texts mostly from twitter--I do this simply because I want to let people around the world know about what those affected are going through now, what they need, what they are saying. I want the audience to think what they could do to help in any way possible.Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger558125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1067509868786232634.post-46255252295556838612011-07-03T13:03:00.000-07:002011-07-03T13:03:00.471-07:00Big electricity users reach reduction goal on 1st day (by Asahi Shimbun)<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #0d0d0d; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 17px;"><img alt="photo" height="213" src="http://www.asahicom.jp/english/images/TKY201107020323.jpg" width="320" /></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">A government order to restrict electricity usage appeared to work on its first day of implementation.</span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1067509868786232634.post-81096205352014742172011-07-03T12:59:00.001-07:002011-07-03T12:59:49.889-07:00City with greatest number of disaster deaths recruits citizens for door-to-door census (by Mainichi Shimbun)<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;">ISHINOMAKI, Miyagi -- This coastal city, which has the greatest number of confirmed deaths from the March 11 disasters and many still unaccounted for, has borrowed the help of its citizens for a door-to-door population census.</span><br />
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An expert panel on tsunami countermeasures has called for the establishment of comprehensive evacuation plans in anticipation of massive tsunami, representing a major shift from the past emphasis on dikes and other protective structures.<br />
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The government plans to establish a ¥103 billion fund to track the health of all Fukushima Prefecture residents for 30 years, because of radiation leaking from the crippled Fukushima No. 1 nuclear plant, government sources said Thursday.<br />
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I am running a water taxi business for four years at the port of Shiogama. It is a 13 passenger boat and travels to the Urato Islands and Matsushima Island. The public liner doesn’t run often, so I get quite many customers. I rush to the island 24/7 to transport patients who need treatment at the main land.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0mm;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0mm;">I lost one of my ships by the tsunami; it was knocked down side way and totaled. This one that I am running now got big hole on the bottom when it was washed ashore, but I had it repaired somehow and I was able to resume my water taxi business from May 1.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0mm;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0mm;">The view from the ship has changed completely after the disaster, and I wish they will restore the previous scenery as soon as possible. (Photo taken by Mr. Yasuo Ishii)</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0mm;"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0mm;">Translated by Makiko Tajima Asano</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1067509868786232634.post-55486150506516868432011-06-19T18:11:00.000-07:002011-06-19T18:11:28.964-07:00Some power firm shareholders wary of nuclear energy (by Asahi Shimbun)<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhdFLOlRryqrxkFl3kCnVw0HBjCiyPqazhCLASdD8lm-jDrtOR8MUlNng8pyMeK1d4z3aeovdaZE23FW8pT3iQqowwJkwy0UpwQ_ZfZOg-SKOC5ERNw9Ntl_XDpNVqzdfRfTWyMczL_GLA/s1600/asahi+6%253A19%253A2011.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhdFLOlRryqrxkFl3kCnVw0HBjCiyPqazhCLASdD8lm-jDrtOR8MUlNng8pyMeK1d4z3aeovdaZE23FW8pT3iQqowwJkwy0UpwQ_ZfZOg-SKOC5ERNw9Ntl_XDpNVqzdfRfTWyMczL_GLA/s1600/asahi+6%253A19%253A2011.jpg" /></a></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #0d0d0d; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 17px;">Kansai Electric Power Co. shareholders walk past nuclear power protesters as they enter a stockholders meeting in Osaka on June 29, 2010. (Asahi Shimbun file photo)</span><br />
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0mm;">Research group for Post Atomic –bomb Syndrome that is investigating the effect of atomic-bomb dropped in Hiroshima and Nagasaki held the meeting at a hotel in Hiroshima on June 5<sup>th</sup>. There were about 200 researchers attended.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They voiced out one after another that they should utilize the result of research accumulated in Hiroshima and Nagasaki in reference to the accident at the Fukushima No.1 Nuclear Power Plant.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0mm;"><br />
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Three months after the Great East Japan Earthquake, coastal areas in Fukushima, Iwate and Miyagi prefectures are suffering from a severe "medical vacuum."<br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; line-height: 13px;">In this June 9, 2011 photo released Saturday, June 11, 2011 by Tokyo Electric Power Co. (TEPCO), equipment inside the cesium absorption tower, part of the newly-built radioactive water processing facilities at Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant in Okuma, Fukushima prefecture, is shown. (AP Photo/Tokyo Electric Power Co.)</span><br />
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In the June issue of the monthly journal Sekai (The World), life scientist Keiko Yanagisawa argues that nuclear power plants must not be operated as long as we do not know how to dispose of highly radioactive nuclear waste -- which can wreak havoc on human DNA .<br />
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</div><div style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; border-collapse: collapse; color: #333333; line-height: 22px; margin-left: 7px;">This is the fourth installment in a series that examines what caused the unprecedented crisis, which has dealt a fatal blow to the myth of the safety of nuclear power plants in this country.</div><div style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; border-collapse: collapse; color: #333333; line-height: 22px; margin-left: 7px;"><br />
</div><div style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; border-collapse: collapse; color: #333333; line-height: 22px; margin-left: 7px;"><a href="http://www.yomiuri.co.jp/dy/national/T110611002697.htm"Target=_blank">http://www.yomiuri.co.jp/dy/national/T110611002697.htm</a></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1067509868786232634.post-24453533149060443172011-06-12T18:39:00.000-07:002011-06-12T18:41:11.579-07:00Demonstrations against nuclear power blanket Japan (by Asahi Shimbun)<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEilKV6ROIdvAUvlZDwfzJj8OdcQGQ0h6YWyX3s32JistLN9yMEkxcgdUf9CoWg9FWlbKbIX-uQ8ZZwjoSnsoZ_jLmKVe-4zwMjCbhGWT4bKUOAngm7hDxjgYxbPPlh0XygCvq7V_bokwVE/s1600/asahi+6%253A12%253A2011.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEilKV6ROIdvAUvlZDwfzJj8OdcQGQ0h6YWyX3s32JistLN9yMEkxcgdUf9CoWg9FWlbKbIX-uQ8ZZwjoSnsoZ_jLmKVe-4zwMjCbhGWT4bKUOAngm7hDxjgYxbPPlh0XygCvq7V_bokwVE/s320/asahi+6%253A12%253A2011.jpg" width="234" /></a></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #0d0d0d; line-height: 17px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">P</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #0d0d0d; line-height: 17px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">eople march around Koriyama Station in Koriyama, Fukushima Prefecture, on June 11, calling for a nuclear-free society. (Ikuro Aiba)</span></span><br />
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