Mari Yamaguchi

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JOC punishes Japan judo over coaches’ violence

Mari Yamaguchi · March 19, 2013 9:09 pm

PM urges anti-terrorism steps at Japan nuke plants

Mari Yamaguchi · March 12, 2013 2:06 pm

Japan Cabinet OKs $147 billion extra budget

Mari Yamaguchi · January 15, 2013 12:37 pm

In this Nov. 7, 2012 photo, farmer Keiko Kikukawa walks through her field where she just finished harvesting organic-grown rhubarbs in Rokasho village, Aomori Prefecture, northern Japan. By hosting a high-tech facility that would convert spent fuel into a plutonium-uranium mix designed for the next generation of reactors, Rokkasho was supposed to provide fuel while minimizing nuclear waste storage problems. Those ambitions are falling apart because years of attempts to build a âfast breederâ reactor, which would use the reprocessed fuel, appear to be ending in failure. "It's so unfair that Rokkasho is stuck with the nuclear garbage from all over Japan," Kikukawa said. "And it's not going to go away even if the Rokkasho plant stops immediately. We're dumping it all onto our offsprings to take care of. It's so irresponsible." (AP Photo/Koji Sasahara)

Nowhere to use Japan’s growing plutonium stockpile

Mari Yamaguchi · December 28, 2012 9:56 am

Japan's Emperor Akihito waves to a crowd of well-wishers through the bulletproof glass of a balcony, during a morning appearance to mark his 79th birthday, at the Imperial Palace in Tokyo Sunday, Dec. 23, 2012. (AP Photo/Shizuo Kambayashi)

Emperor turns 79, concerned about aging Japan

Mari Yamaguchi · December 23, 2012 7:41 am

In this Dec. 14, 2012 photo, members of a Japanese scientist team check a fault, marked with white dots, underneath the Higashidori nuclear plant in Higashidori in Aomori prefecture, northern Japan. The four-member panel commissioned by the Nuclear Regulation Authority said Thursday, Dec. 20, 2012 that at least two major faults underneath the nuclear plant are believed to be active - a contradiction of operator Tohoku Electric Power Coâs assertion that they are inactive. The panel said the faults could cause magnitude 7-class earthquakes near the reactor, which was opened in 2005 and is among the newest of Japanâs aging reactors. (AP Photo/Kyodo News) JAPAN OUT, MANDATORY CREDIT, NO LICENSING IN CHINA, HONG KONG, JAPAN, SOUTH KOREA AND FRANCE

Panel: Fault under Japan nuke plant likely active

Mari Yamaguchi · December 20, 2012 3:58 pm

Nuke plant utility: Some safety measures neglected

Mari Yamaguchi · December 15, 2012 2:27 am

Japan utility admits murky hiring at nuclear plant

Mari Yamaguchi · December 10, 2012 2:27 pm

US scientists find lessons from Japan nuke crisis

Mari Yamaguchi · November 27, 2012 11:56 am

UN envoy: Japan should do more for nuclear victims

Mari Yamaguchi · November 26, 2012 2:27 pm

Another US military serviceman arrested on Okinawa

Mari Yamaguchi · November 18, 2012 10:55 am

Tokyo ex-governor joins new conservative party

Mari Yamaguchi · November 17, 2012 3:13 pm