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Britain pledges assistance to disaster-hit Japan
Britain’s Foreign Secretary William Hague expressed his “great admiration” for Japan’s “resilience” Tuesday and offered support for the country’s reconstruction following the March 11 earthquake and tsunami disaster.
Radiation levels rise in seabed near Japan
LEVELS of radioactive substances have jumped in the Pacific seabed off Japan near the nuclear power plant crippled by a massive tsunami in March, according to the plant operator.
With 12,000 missing, Japan seeks tsunami victims
A line of somber soldiers walked methodically through a drained swamp Monday, sinking their slender poles into the muck beneath. If one hit a body, he would know. The men were among 25,000 troops given the morbid duty of searching rubble, seas and swamps of northeastern Japan for the bodies of the nearly 12,000 people still missing in last month’s earthquake and tsunami.
World marks Chernobyl under shadow of Japan
The world on Tuesday marks a quarter century since the world’s worst nuclear disaster at Chernobyl in Ukraine, haunted by fears over the safety of atomic energy after the Japan earthquake. Russian President Dmitry Medvedev is to make a landmark visit to Chernobyl later on Tuesday to take part in the memorial ceremonies at the site, joined by his Ukrainian counterpart Viktor Yanukovych.
Japan’s Earthquake: Natural or Engineered?
An earlier article considered whether Haiti’s January 2010 quake was engineered. Despite no corroborating proof, technologies exist to do it. America “Carried Out a Second Nuclear Attack on Japan” by HAARP technology
Japan seals off no-go zone around nuclear plant
Japan officially sealed off a wide area around a crippled nuclear power plant early Friday to stop tens of thousands of residents from sneaking back to the homes they quickly fled and are enduring a long, uncertain wait to return.
Japanese utility likely to survive nuclear crisis
Some would consign the Tokyo utility embroiled in Japan’s worst-ever nuclear plant disaster to the corporate graveyard. Its share price has collapsed by 80 percent, regaining control of the leaking reactors may take a year or more and compensation claims could run to an eye-watering $120 billion.
Japan Declares No-Entry Zone Around Stricken Nuclear Plant
Japanese authorities have formally declared a 20-kilometer exclusion ring around the earthquake- and tsunami-damaged Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant. The order enforcing the legal no-entry zone is due to come into effect at midnight Japan time on April 21.
Gillard pledges rare earth, LNG supplies to Japan
Prime Minister Julia Gillard promised Japan a steady supply of liquefied natural gas and rare-earth metals used to make cars and electronics following last month’s record earthquake and tsunami.
Japanese exports fall 2.2% in March due to tsunami
Japanese exports fell by more than expected in March, as damage from last month’s earthquake and tsunami affected shipments. Exports declined 2.2% from a year earlier, the Finance Ministry said. Many analysts were expecting a drop of about 1.5%.
