Tag: Japan

Energy and Environment

How nations are tackling nuclear waste storage

Washington Examiner · July 14, 2014 12:32 pm

Energy and Environment

Underground lab tackles Japan nuclear waste issue

Mari Yamaguchi · July 14, 2014 9:35 am

Hollywood ‘Godzilla’ finally stomps home to Japan

Yuri Kageyama · July 10, 2014 11:02 am

Workers build under ground frozen wall by Tokyo Electric Power Co. (TEPCO) at the crippled Fukushima No. 1 power plant in Okuma, Fukushima Prefecture on Mar. 10, 2014, nearly three years after the plant was paralyzed by the March 11 earthquake and tsunami in 2011. (AP Photo/Koji Sasahara,pool)

Stigmatized nuclear workers quit Japan utility

Yuri Kageyama · July 10, 2014 6:45 am

A road is submerged by an overflowed river following a typhoon in Yomitan, Okinawa, Wednesday, July 9, 2014. A powerful storm slammed through the southwestern Japanese island of Okinawa, leaving at least 28 people injured and 63,000 homes without power before swerving toward the bigger island of Kyushu on Wednesday. (AP Photo/Ryukyu Shimpo via Kyodo News) JAPAN OUT, NO SALES, NO ARCHIVE, MANDATORY CREDIT

Tropical storm Neoguri hits Japan’s main islands

Yuri Kageyama · July 10, 2014 2:27 am

A man poses with a full page advertisement with the headline "Japan wants a war again" and showing mushroom clouds over Hiroshima and Nagasaki that was published on the July 3, 2014 issue of the Chonqging Youth Daily newspaper days after Japan's cabinet approved a reinterpretation of the country's pacifist postwar constitution in Chonqing in southwestern China on Wednesday July 9, 2014. (AP Photo) CHINA OUT

Japan protests China paper’s map of atomic clouds

Mari Yamaguchi · July 9, 2014 11:53 am

Women walk amid strong winds on a street in Naha, Okinawa, southern Japan, Tuesday, July 8, 2014. Powerful Typhoon Neoguri pounded across the southern Japanese islands of Okinawa on Tuesday, as residents took refuge from destructive winds, towering waves and storm surges. Airports closed and residents were evacuated from low-lying areas and shorelines as the typhoon passed over Okinawa, packing sustained winds of 175 kilometers (108 miles) per hour and gusts up to 250 kph (154 mph), the Japan Meteorological Agency said. (AP Photo/Kyodo News) JAPAN OUT, CREDIT MANDATORY

Typhoon heads toward Kyushu after slamming Okinawa

Yuri Kageyama · July 9, 2014 5:11 am

China holds ceremony to mark China-Japan war

Louise Watt · July 7, 2014 12:40 pm

Chinese President Xi Jinping waves to students and audience after his lecture at Seoul National University in Seoul, South Korea, Friday, July 4, 2014. With a single meeting Thursday, the leaders of China and South Korea simultaneously snubbed North Korea, bolstered their already booming trade relationship and gave the U.S. and Japan a look at Beijing's growing influence south of the Korean Demilitarized Zone. (AP Photo/Lee Jin-man)

Xi rebukes Japan for brutality in China, Koreas

HyungJin Kim · July 4, 2014 11:46 am

In this June 30, 2014 photo, Japanese lawmaker Takeshi Iwaya speaks during an interview in Tokyo. (AP Photo/Koji Sasahara)

Pacifist no more? Experts discuss Japan’s military

MARI YAMAGUCHIMIKI TODA · July 3, 2014 9:45 am

North Korean ship symbolizes hopes for Japan ties

Eric Talmadge · July 3, 2014 4:44 am

A protester shouts slogan outside the Japanese prime minister's office as the Cabinet approved reinterpreting the constitution on military affairs in Tokyo, Tuesday, July 1, 2014. Japan took a step away Tuesday from an American-drafted constitution that has long kept its military shackled, approving a plan to allow greater use of a force that was vanquished at the end of World War II. (AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko)

Japan’s Cabinet eases post-WWII limits on military

MARI YAMAGUCHIKEN MORITSUGU · July 1, 2014 8:57 pm