25 June 2012, Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCo) announcing today that they discovered, last month, that the outer walls of the building housing Reactor 4 are tilting!
TEPCo officials claim the building is still structurally safe! The third floor has the most extreme tilt, at 4.6 centimeters (1.8 inches).
Reactor 4, of all the reactors at […] Continue Reading…
“The Parties agree that an armed attack against one or more of them in Europe or North America shall be considered an attack against them all, and consequently they agree that, if such an armed attack occurs, each of them, in exercise of the right of individual or collective self defense recognized by Article […] Continue Reading…
22 June 2012, Japan’s Mitsubishi Corporation has just renewed its yearly orders of Iranian oil. The decision comes after the United States exempted Japan from the oil sanctions, and the Japanese government agreed to provide shipping insurance for tankers carrying Iranian oil.
It was also revealed that while Japan’s Showa Shell Sekiyu, and JX Nippon Oil […] Continue Reading…
22 June 2012
Afghan Mujahideen attack the Spozhmai Hotel in Kabul city, at least 12 people killed (six cops and six civilians).
Kabul police say the attack began late night, 21 June 2012. They claim they rescued 20 hostages, but there are dozens more inside: “It would be very easy for police to kill them, but […] Continue Reading…
18 June 2012
Afghan troops turned their guns on each other in Kunar Province. One soldier was killed, the shooter escaped.
In Kandahar Province, in the Zhari district, three Afghan police attacked U.S. personnel, killing one and wounding nine. ISAF is investigating: “The International Security Assistance Force confirms that three individuals in Afghan police uniforms turned […] Continue Reading…
21 June 2012, Japan’s Nissan Motor is cutting production in Japan.
Starting next month Nissan will end production of four models of cars in Japan. It amounts to 15% of Nissan’s Japanese production.
The move comes after Nissan reported a profit of $4.29 billion USD for the Japanese year ending in March. Company officials say the […] Continue Reading…
“For the time being we will be able to continue smoothly transporting Iranian oil to Japan. I would like to thank the government and all parties concerned for their efforts.”-Yasushi Kimura, Petroleum Association of Japan
21 June 2012, Yasushi Kimura, president of the Petroleum Association of Japan, basically said the U.S. and European oil sanctions against […] Continue Reading…
20 June 2012, the Upper House of the Japanese Diet passed a tough new anti-downloading law. If your caught ‘illegally’ downloading music or movies you could pay a $25,000 USD fine and/or spend two years in prison!
The law was pushed by the corporate music and movie industry. The Recording Industry Association of Japan is […] Continue Reading…
Volunteer animal rescuers in Japan are reporting that pets are still being found in the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster area.
Recently six kittens were found and taken to a animal hospital in Tokyo. They were taken to Tokyo because local animal shelters are still full of abandoned pets from the March 2011 disasters. More than […] Continue Reading…
“The United States should preserve the model of ‘lily pad’ bases throughout the Gulf, which permits the rapid escalation of military force in case of emergency.”-SFRC report
19 June 2012, the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee (SFRC) revealed that there are nearly 15,000 U.S. troops in Kuwait, three times more than in 2003.
The SFRC report […] Continue Reading…