Opinion
December 16, 2011
Let me say one other thing. I've been in your country often, I don't know how many dozens of times over the years. But, this is the first time I've been here since March 11th....
December 16, 2011
After the terrible earthquake and tsunami this year, Japan received warm support from all over the world. But, what was extremely special and moving for us was the assistance...
December 16, 2011
'Japan-U.S. alliance in a regional context'
December 16, 2011
'Fukushima and climate change'
October 12, 2011
The government recently decided to establish a nuclear safety agency under the Ministry of Environment (MOE). Although its effects remain unclear with the subsequent change in...
October 08, 2011
Japan should take the lead in building a power grid that extends from Japan through Southeast Asia to Australia, according to a nongovernmental panel of experts chaired by a...
September 28, 2011
Since the accident at the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant, concerns have increased about radiation contamination of food products.
September 20, 2011
I had my eureka moment the other day when I saw the cover of the August issue of "Neppu" (Hot wind), a booklet published by Studio Ghibli, an animation film studio co-founded...
September 01, 2011
The March 11 calamity inspired Softbank Corp. CEO Masayoshi Son to set out on a new quest. After announcing generous corporate and private donations, including 10 billion yen...
August 17, 2011
The president of the Seismological Society of Japan says his profession was partly to blame for the disaster at the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant because of misleading...
August 16, 2011
The new nuclear safety agency being set up by the government to regulate nuclear power plants is to be classified as an extra-ministerial bureau of the Environment Ministry.
August 13, 2011
The Food Safety Commission of the Cabinet Office has proposed a safety standard for lifetime exposure to radiation. A lifetime dose of 100 millisieverts or more is likely to...
August 12, 2011
"Into Eternity," a 2009 feature documentary film by Danish director Michael Madsen, is about a nuclear waste depository 500 meters underground in Finland. The Japanese title is ...
August 08, 2011
The response by government agencies and large-scale organizations to the March 11 disaster in the Tohoku region of Japan has been an exercise in ineffectiveness. Institutional...
August 08, 2011
The government has unveiled a draft plan to restructure its nuclear regulatory organizations and functions in a crucial policy response to the disastrous accident at the...
August 06, 2011
The novelist Sakyo Komatsu, who died July 26 at age 80, first came across the term "genshi bakudan" (atom bomb) during World War II in a magazine for children. The bomb...
August 06, 2011
Can mankind live with nuclear power? This summer, 66 years after an atomic bomb devastated Hiroshima, we are once again faced with this momentous and difficult question.
August 06, 2011
HIROSHIMA--The crisis at the crippled Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant has driven home the need to accelerate nuclear disarmament, experts told a recent symposium here in...
August 06, 2011
HIROSHIMA--Four experts made their cases for nuclear disarmament at the International Symposium for Peace 2011, held in Hiroshima on July 31.
August 06, 2011
Can mankind live with nuclear power? This summer, 66 years after an atomic bomb devastated Hiroshima, we are once again faced with this momentous and difficult question.