News About Japan

Japanese Ministry of Health announced that “for prudential reasons” the milk samples of some women use in lactating will be subjected to tests for the possible radioactivity. -We believe that there is no reason for concern-said government spokesman Yukio Edano. -But it is understood that mothers are concerns. Only by caution cost instructions carrying out [...]

An earthquake struck Chiba prefecture, located in the east part of Honshu-informs  Kyodo agency. Buildings in Tokyo were shaking-reported Reuters. According to the American Geological Services earthquake have occurred on 22.37 of local time and had strength 6,3 in Richter scale. After big earthquake from 11 of March, many parts of Japan suffer from many [...]

Companies from Tokyo and other areas of Japan are preparing work places for people coming to take up new jobs offered to tsunami survivors from Tohoku. According to Japanese labor ministry, more than 6.000 of new jobs have been created,  more than 1,000 of them in Tokyo. Most new working positions are at small- to [...]

  Strong aftershock has hit north-east Japan, almost month after a big quake led to a devastating tsunami. Officials ordered evacuations and workers at the damaged Fukushima nuclear plant took shelter after the quake triggered a tsunami warning. Emergency crews said two old people died as an indirect result of the quake and about 100 [...]

Japanese government has no plans for further evacuation of areas around damaged  nuclear power station Fukushima-informed deputy director Japanese nuclear safety agency (NISA) Koichiro Nakamura. Nakamura added however that this zone may be expanded in the future. Already in the previous week the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) suggested Japanese authorities extending the evacuation zone, [...]

Bodies of unidentified victims of tsunami are coming to crematoriums in Tokyo. In Northeast Japan, in area devastated by tsunami there is no chance to organize proper burial ceremonies for victims. People are buried in mass graves and for Japanese this is shocking picture. Japanese say, it is not the way people shall be treated [...]

Anti-nuclear protesters have held a large rally in Tokyo yesterday, calling for change in Japan’s nuclear industry. Over thousand people participated in demonstration. Such view is very rare in Japan. But Japanese are already fed up with all this situation, with lack of information about situation and most of all, they are afraid that radiation [...]

Yesterday Tokyo was hit by news that tap water is unfit for babies to drink because radiation from damaged reactors of Fukushima nuclear plant affected the Tokyo’s water supplies. Levels of radioactive iodine in tap water are even twice higher that recommended for babies and infants. The authorities are advising Tokyo citizens not to use [...]

I know that politicians can say things absolutely silly, out of place or very rude.      But I would rather think that such a way is more typical for Western politicians than Japanese ones. I was astonished finding remark of Tokyo Gov. Ishihara about earthquake and tsunami as “divine punishment cause by egoism of Japanese people” [...]

I could not stop thinking about this radioactive cloud which might float to Tokyo…now I have found information that cloud was pushed by wind in direction of the ocean…thats good news and I do hope wind will not change direction. All my friends from many countries are sending me mails asking how situation in Japan [...]