nuclear disaster

5 utilities consider rate hikes, call for restarts...
Makoto Yagi, president of Kansai Electric Power Co., announces the company's plan to raise electricity rates, at the company’s head office in Osaka on Oct. 29. (Noboru Tomura)
October 30, 2012
Five electric power companies are considering higher electricity rates for both businesses and households, saying they could face financial ruin if the government refuses to...
New government could revive frozen nuclear plant...
The Asahi Shimbun
October 06, 2012
Electric power companies are banking on a change in government after the next Lower House election to reverse a decision that froze a decades-old project to build a nuclear...
Fukushima teens find parallels in Hiroshima’s...
Junior high school students from Koriyama, Fukushima Prefecture, dedicate a thousand paper cranes to the Children's Peace Monument in Hiroshima on Aug. 6 (Ryo Ikeda)
August 07, 2012
HIROSHIMA--It took a visit to this historic city by a group of students to realize the atomic bombing 67 years ago was more than something from the distant past learned only in ...
EDITORIAL: Anti-nuke protests offer an opportunity...
Anti-nuclear demonstrators gather before the Diet building on July 29. (Jun Ueda)
July 31, 2012
A myriad of lights cast a soft glow around the Diet building as dusk fell on July 29.
Nuclear disaster casts shadow on Tokyo’s 2020...
Swimmer Ai Shibata emphasizes the appeal of Tokyo at an IOC-related meeting in Moscow on April 14. (Asahi Shimbun file photo)
May 12, 2012
Tokyo’s 2020 Olympic bid organizers were hoping that the international community would rally around the bid in a show of solidarity as the nation rebuilds after the events of ...
Town of Namie gets an earful from evacuated children
Many of the written responses from students at elementary and junior high schools in Namie, Fukushima Prefecture, expressed their desire to return to their homes. (Satoru Sekiguchi)
March 22, 2012
When town officials wanted to hear what children who had been evacuated from a town in the Fukushima nuclear disaster exclusion zone were thinking, they heard a mix of...
EDITORIAL: Sense of urgency needed in nuclear...
February 23, 2012
The process of paying compensation to victims of the Fukushima nuclear disaster has not been moving as fast as expected.
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