Japan’s Prime Minister, Kan Naoto, named new people to take over the nuclear plant control and disaster control, within his cabinet. I didn’t hear the translation clearly, as to who is taking over, I think the names are Hosono and Magachi. The reason for the changes is that prior officials in those cabinet posts […] Continue Reading…
Iranian Ambassador to Tokyo, Abbas Araqchi, announced that the first cargo of Iran’s humanitarian aid for Japan has arrived.
The aid consists of 50,000 canned fish and beans. Araqchi says he and the Iranian Deputy Head of International Red Crescent Society, Mahmoud Mozaffari, will be on hand when the food is delivered to Miyagi Prefecture.
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Tokyo Electric Power Company is a private corporation. They run many nuclear plants in Japan, along with the failing Fukushima Daiichi plant. You’d think the corporations would have their own people to deal with things like the current disaster.
So far who’s done the most work to try and bring the nuclear plant under control? […] Continue Reading…
It was looking like Ford would escape supply problems from Japan, nope. Ford announced that specific colors for their new vehicles will be in short supply, due to the disasters in Japan.
Yes, even paint comes from Japan.
An ingredient used to make Ford’s Tuxedo Black, and three shades of red, come from Japan. That ingredient […] Continue Reading…
The basement of reactor 3 is flooded with water, with radiation 10,000 times higher than “normal”. Three workers from the Fukushima Daiichi were sent to the hospital with Beta Burns, as a result. There is now evidence that the radioactive water came from the reactor core.
There are high levels of iodine-131 in the water. […] Continue Reading…
Most Asian countries have banned food from specific Japanese prefectures, some Asian countries banned all food from Japan.
The United States has banned products from radiation zones.
The European Union is the latest group of countries to announce testing and bans of foods from 12 Japanese prefectures.
The food ban will probably not affect Japan’s export business, […] Continue Reading…
Tokyo Electric Power Co is now using fresh water, pumped in from fire truck water tankers.
It turns out that many problems at the Fukushima Daiichi plant were being caused by salty sea water. Experts had been warning TEPCo officials to stop using sea water.
The U.S. Navy is also sending a tanker ship full of […] Continue Reading…
Japanese Cabinet Secretary, Edano Yukio, says they have “…explored all possibilities…” regarding the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant. So far officials are at a loss as to where the radiation leak is coming from.
At this point they can’t tell if the leaking radiation is coming from spent fuel pools, or reactor cores. This is […] Continue Reading…
At the most recent press conference a Japanese reporter asked Cabinet Secretary Yukio Edano, why foreign reporters have been banned from press conferences.
Edano blamed the stressful conditions of trying to deal with the catastrophic disaster.
Thousands of anime (Japanese animation) fans hoping to hit one of the world’s biggest anime conventions will have to wait another year. The event in Tokyo, Japan, was canceled after the 9.0 quake/tsunami. The event center is now being used to house survivors of the disaster.
Convention officials are now working to refund money to […] Continue Reading…