The official death toll from the March 11 tsunami went over 10,000 on March 26. The number of missing is more than 16,000. These numbers are misleading because they are based on “reported” cases.
The Japanese National Police are saying that actual numbers will be much higher, because those numbers being officially reported are only […] Continue Reading…
TEPCo says it will conduct another test of the leaked water at Fukushima Daiichi, reactor 2’s turbine building. The reading for iodine-134 (has a shorter half life than iodine-131) announced earlier was actually for another isotope that has a longer half-life.
TEPCo officials say the level of 10 million times more than normal is incorrect, […] Continue Reading…
Japanese company, Panasonic, is rushing to get batteries shipped into Japan.
Batteries for electronic items have run short after Japanese bought up all they could after the March 11 disasters.
Panasonic makes batteries in Japan, but even with increasing their production, they can’t meet domestic demand. Usually batteries are shipped by boat, because of their weight, […] Continue Reading…
Officials are considering introducing daylight saving time todeal with severe power shortages that could last for months.
Japan has resisted daylight saving time for nearly 60 years. Russia recently dropped daylight savings.
A 48 year old illegal immigrant from China, has turned himself in to Japanese authorities. His reason, to escape the ongoing Fukushima nuclear disaster.
Lin Jian Ming has been illegally living in Japan since June , 2000.
Japanese immigration officials say more than 161,000 foreigners have left Japan, via the Narita airport, between March 11 and March 22.
Compare that to the same time last year, of only 20,000, and that’s an increase of eight times.
Also, the number of foreigners coming into Japan, through Narita, has dropped by 60%.
TEPCo said radiation 10 million times the normal level was detected in water that leaked into Reactor 2’s turbine housing unit!
Workers were struggling to pump out water, but had to evacuate because of the high radiation levels.
Cabinet Secretary, Edano Yuki, announced that national police are being sent in to 20-30km evacuation/disaster zones.
Edano said that radiation levels are so high at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant that work must be halted until the contamination can be removed. Soil samples around the area show rapidly increasing radiation contamination.
Japanese government will now evacuate […] Continue Reading…
“I call this year the ‘Year of Economic Jihad’ and I expect the officials of the country and also our dear nation to work in a jihadi way in the economic areas.” -Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei
The Supreme Leader of Iran, Ayatollah Khamenei, announced on March 21 (the beginning of the new […] Continue Reading…
OPEC has announced they will not increase oil production.
Currently Iran holds the presidency of OPEC. Iranian Oil Minister, Masoud Mir Kazemi, said there is no justification for OPEC to increase production, especially when OPEC supplies only 30 million barrels per day, compared to 55 million barrels from non-OPEC sources.