A Pulitzer Prize winning newspaper has a site that tracks the success and failure of Barack Obama’s campaign promises.
The Saint Petersburg Times PolitiFact.com has posted a detailed tracking of more than 500 promises or expectations from President Obama.
Japanese charities, and central and local government officials are planning to meet to figure out how to distribute donated money.
It’s been more than three weeks since the disasters and no aid money has been distributed. Complaints have not only been filed by foreign aid groups, but by other countries as well.
Aid that has been […] Continue Reading…
About 300 Japanese police have begun searching for missing people, inside the 20km (12.4 miles) evacuation zone. The police are wearing protective suits.
The police are from Tokyo and Fukushima cities. They are using heavy equipment.
At least 3,900 people from Fukushima Prefecture are still missing.
Tokyo Electric Power Company officials have to back off their six day plan of injecting nitrogen into the damaged containment vessel of Reactor 1. After a full day of nitrogen injection they say pressure is increasing in the reactor. The nitrogen does seem to have counteracted the hydrogen build up.
TEPCo said the latest 7 […] Continue Reading…
Just before midnight, Japan time, north east Honshu got hit with the biggest “aftershock” yet, between 7.1 and 7.4.
At first there were tsunami warnings, but they were canceled when it was realized it was not the type of quake that would cause tsunami. But this latest quake puts another nuclear plant in trouble.
Onagawa nuke […] Continue Reading…
Monty Dickson, 26, teaching in Japan as part of the JET program, was swept away the March 11 tsunami.
His family in Alaska recently received an email, then a phone call, notifying them that his body has been found.
According to reports, Dickson was on the third floor of a building when the huge tsunami washed […] Continue Reading…
“The Fukushima No. 1 plant was a practice course for Toshiba and Hitachi Ltd. to learn about GE’s design on a trial-and-error basis.”-former TEPCo executive
asahi.com reporting that Fukushima Daiichi (aka Number 1 Plant) was designed as “trial and error” experiment. This might explain why it’s neighbor, Fukushima DaiNi (aka Number 2 Plant), is not […] Continue Reading…
Tourism numbers are looking really bad for japan, thanks to the ongoing nuclear disaster. Don’t let that stop you from taking a trip to Japan.
In fact, because of the huge drop in tourist money coming in, you’ll probably get some really good deals in the near future. Even the Japanese airlines will start making […] Continue Reading…
The Tokyo Regional Immigration Bureau says foreign tourist to Japan has dropped 75% compared to the same time last year. Blame the ongoing nuclear disaster.
A trend that is picking up steam with Japanese companies, after the March 11 disasters, is to ask employees to take time off without pay. JAL is doing just that.
JAL wants employees to take time off without pay, in May and June. The reason is a huge drop in passengers since March 11. JAL […] Continue Reading…