8 employees were fired, and 25 had their pay cut by 30%, for not paying for tickets on their own monorail service.
JR East Tokyo Monorail, says most of the employees were in management positions. They would board the train for work, swipe their pay cards, then once at work, would use the company computers […] Continue Reading…
“Since these people are having trouble getting to stores, we will bring the store to them.”-company spokesperson
A convenience store company, called Lawson, is sending “Mobile Lawson” stores to the areas of Japan devastated by the March 11 disasters.
The company is using food service trucks, originally designed for construction sites, to deliver food and other […] Continue Reading…
Tokyo Electric Power Company can not keep up with the amount of contaminated water coming from their Fukushima Daiichi reactors. So far they’ve removed 660 tons of water, but the reactors and fuel pools hold more than 80,000 tons combined, and the water continues to pour out.
Water levels in the tunnel connected to Reactor […] Continue Reading…
The Geographical Survey Institute surveyed 28 benchmarks in three prefectures, hit by the 11 March earthquake.
They confirmed that the land has dropped as much as 84cm (33 inches, just under 3 feet).
The land sunk in Fukushima, Miyagi and Iwate Prefectures. They are now dealing with high tide flooding caused by the loss of their […] Continue Reading…
Tokyo Electric Power Company will try a new weapon against radiation spreading in the Pacific Ocean; sandbags. They already tried steel and silt fencing, now they will use sandbags full of zeolite.
Zeolite is an aluminosilicate mineral, used in commercial absorbents. It’s hoped it will absorb some of the high levels of radiation in the […] Continue Reading…
Just as Japan’s rice production takes a hit from radiation, Sanyo makes a hit with its rice bread maker.
Sanyo is resuming production of its bread make that uses rice, called “Gopan”, because they are getting swamped with orders.
Sanyo didn’t stop production because of the March 11 disasters, they stopped because their factory just couldn’t […] Continue Reading…
A team from Tokyo University of Marine Science and Technology, has determined that the Aneyoshi district of Miyako City, Iwate Prefecture, suffered the highest tsunami damage.
They found evidence that the surge hit 38.9 meters (127.6 feet). This beats the 115 year old record, held by the same prefecture, of 38.2 meters. That record was […] Continue Reading…
The Fukushima University will conduct high altitude radiation checks, using high altitude weather balloons.
On Friday they will release the balloon, it will take readings as high up as 30km (18.6 miles). Readings will be taken at 10 meter (32.8 feet) intervals.
The jet stream blows from east to west (towards North America). The testing will […] Continue Reading…
Con artists are scoring big in Japan, using the March 11 disasters to milk people of their hard earned money.
A woman in Kure City, Hiroshima, was tricked into donating 120,000 yen to a non-existent family.
A man in the Hokuriku area reports: “Several days ago, two men in business suits came to my house […] Continue Reading…
“My heart trembled. They looked just like my dog. I started searching for them right away.”-Ogino, a 56-year-old volunteer
While some Japanese label evacuees ‘hibakusha’ and publicly bully them, other Japanese are risking contamination to save the animals left behind.
Many members of dog clubs around Japan, were so moved by pictures of abandoned dogs, […] Continue Reading…