According to a Yomiuri Shimbun survey at least 4,330 foreign students have left Japan. The survey covers only those students actually enrolled in a Japanese school, not those that were planning on attending but hadn’t enrolled.
Most of the students were concerned with the nuclear disaster, and more aftershocks. The schools are worried their budgets […] Continue Reading…
In another blow to world food supply issues, the nuclear disaster in Japan is making things worse.
Officials say that many livestock left behind in the 20km (12.4 miles) evacuation zone, have starved to death! There were about 30,000 pigs, about 600,000 chickens and about 3,000 cattle the evacuation zone, but the Fukushima Prefectural government […] Continue Reading…
Radioactive iodine has been found in the breast milk of four women living in Japan.
One woman, living in Kashiwa, Chiba Prefecture, contained 36.3 becquerels of radioactive iodine per kilogram. Milk from two women in Tsukuba, Ibaraki Prefecture, contained 8.7 and 6.4 becquerels.
A citizens group paid for the analysts of the breast milk. Currently there […] Continue Reading…
British Petroleum is suing Transocean for at least $40 billion in damages. BP claims the worst offshore oil spill in U.S. history was caused by the failure of every safety system on the Deepwater Horizon rig.
BP is also suing Cameron International, claiming they provided a faulty blowout preventer.
Transocean, and Cameron International are suing BP, […] Continue Reading…
On Tuesday Toyota announced more cuts for North American factories, now more cuts in Europe and China.
For Europe Toyota announced that they will cut production, after the already scheduled production halt for the end of this month. The reason is lack of electronic parts. Toyota’s Chinese factories will also see production cuts, in some […] Continue Reading…
“Resourced”? Is this new mil-speak for “operational planning”? Or “tactics”? How about pull your head out!
In an official announcement made on the Joint Chiefs of Staff web site, U.S. Admiral Michael Mullen, admitted that the U.S. was totally screwed up for the first eight years of the occupation of Afghanistan, ‘cept it wasn’t quite […] Continue Reading…
In an interview with a Pakistani news station, GEO TV, U.S. Admiral Michael Mullen said the U.S. will maintain bases beyond the 2014 troop pull out.
He also contradicted himself saying the U.S. will not maintain bases in Afghanistan. Mullen said that Bagram and Shindand air bases will be used by the U.S. to […] Continue Reading…
Robots from the Idaho National Laboratory have been searching through the damaged reactor buildings at Fukushima Daiichi.
They have discovered temperature and radiation levels too high for humans. Tokyo Electric Power Company officials say they will have to use air conditioners, and filtration systems, to bring heat and radiation levels down enough for workers to […] Continue Reading…
For decades Japanese living on Okinawa have demanded that U.S. forces leave. They might be getting their wish.
Internal U.S. Marine Corps documents obtained by NHK revealed a plan to reduce the number of Marines by 8,000. The Marines would be relocated to the U.S. territory of Guam.
It still leaves about 10,000 personnel at the […] Continue Reading…
After giving a speech that implied that social programs for citizens of the U.S., such as Food Stamps, would have to be cut, President Obama is considering sending food to North Korea.
U.S. Special Envoy, Robert King, made the announcement in response to the UN World Food Program’s call for 430,000 tons of food […] Continue Reading…