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FUKUSHIMA PLANT GROUNDWATER LIKELY CONTAMINATED DESPITE DATA ERROR
TOKYO (Kyodo) -- Groundwater at the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant is highly likely to be contaminated with radioactive materials, even though its operator Tokyo Electric Power Co. is reviewing its analysis released late Thursday due to erroneous calculations, the government's nuclear safety agency said Friday.Full article
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Friday, April 1, 2011
High radiation found outside no-go zone
Despite alarming new radiation data presented by the International Atomic Energy Agency, the government says it has no plans to widen the evacuation zone around the crippled Fukushima No. 1 power plant.
Tsunami-ravaged Ishinomaki slowly sets off on long road to recovery
The Miyagi Prefecture city of Ishinomaki lies in ruins, the death toll keeps rising and roughly 18,000 of its residents remain in temporary shelters, but amid the adversity some locals are already planning the first steps to rebuilding their shattered lives.
Hundreds of corpses believed irradiated, inaccessible
Sarkozy, Kan meet in Tokyo
Elementary grads hold ceremony
Kan looking to split NISA, METI
Kato death sentence appeal filed
Diet OKs monthly child allowances
S. Korea renovates islet heliport
Mayors confer on lessons learned from twin disaster, way forward
Radioactive iodine traces detected in New York
Coming together for the survivors
Tsunami-hit towns face dire future
IAEA warns of further leaks
Thursday, March 31, 2011
Ideas floated to stanch leak of radiation
NGO finds high levels in safe area
Sendai struggles to regain footing
Kaieda orders nuke safety rethink
DPJ withdraws child allowance bill as opposition digs its heels in
Labor queries pour in from victims
Saitama arena evacuees relocate
U.S. sending radiation-hardened robots to assist at plant
Fukushima No. 1's scary shadow
World pitches in to offer support
U.S. military mops up tsunami-hit school
Reactors may take three decades to decommission
April 1, 2011
A van swept away by tsunami on March 11 remains stuck in debris in Ishinomaki, Miyagi Prefecture, on Wednesday. The disaster devastated the town, leaving at least 2,283 dead and another 2,643 unaccounted for.
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March 23, 2011
Children burst into laughter Tuesday as they play with a high school girl who has volunteered to look after kids at a disaster shelter at an elementary school in Miyako, Miyagi Prefecture.
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March 23, 2011
People read newspapers at an emergency shelter in Minamisanriku, Miyagi Prefecture, last week.
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March 21, 2011
Serbians write messages of compassion and support for Japan during a ceremony for the victims and survivors of the March 11 earthquake and tsunami at Republic Square in Belgrade on Saturday.
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March 21, 2011
Kazushige Iguchi holds his 1-month-old son, Kakeru, at a shelter in Kesennuma, Miyagi Prefecture, on Saturday.
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March 17, 2011
A clock apparently showing the time it was hit by Friday's tsunami lies among the debris in Kesennuma, Miyagi Prefecture, on Tuesday.
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March 17, 2011
People cook dinner outside their collapsed houses in Ishinomaki, Miyagi Prefecture.
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March 17, 2011
Nurses look after patients evacuated from a hospital in one of the disaster-hit towns at a shelter in Otsuchi, Iwate Prefecture, on Tuesday. Most of the nurses are survivors themselves.
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March 12, 2011
Sendai airport in Miyagi Prefecture is inundated by a tsunami Friday triggered by a massive earthquake that struck off the coast of the Tohoku region.
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March 11, 2011
A successful applicant to the University of Tokyo is tossed into the air Thursday after confirming his exam result at the university's Bunkyo Ward campus.
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March 11, 2011
Myu, a female harbor seal, strikes a pose that looks like she is praying or thanking someone at Suma Aqualife Park in Kobe earlier this month. Myu, who will turn 16 on Saturday, was taught the trick by a zookeeper after she looked like she was praying during a physical examination, and she has become a popular attraction at the aquarium.
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March 11, 2011
The Queen Mary 2, one of the world's largest luxury cruise ships, enters the port of Osaka on Thursday. The 345-meter-long ship departed New York in January on a 104-day journey around the world and is making its first visit to Osaka.
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March 10, 2011
Investigators inspect a car that was squashed Wednesday by a train near Tsuruma Station on the Odakyu Enoshima Line in Yamato, Kanagawa Prefecture. The car reportedly crashed into the train at a crossing and was dragged more than 10 meters. Hiroko Ohira, 46, of Yamato, was killed and another 61-year-old woman was slightly injured.
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March 9, 2011
A Sakura bullet train model made of Arita porcelain is unveiled to the media at the Saga Prefectural Government office Tuesday prior to the start Saturday of full operations on the Kyushu Shinkansen Line's Kagoshima route. The town of Arita in Saga Prefecture is famed for its porcelain.
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March 8, 2011
Snow falls on pedestrians in Tokyo's Ueno Park Monday morning. The heavy snow later turned into rain.
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March 4, 2011
Boats carrying hundreds of old "hina" dolls put to sea Thursday as women make wishes during a "hina nagashi" Shinto ritual at Awashima Shrine in the city of Wakayama.
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March 3, 2011
Children dressed in ancient court outfits line up as "hina" dolls Wednesday at Mukojima Bunka Kindergarten in Sumida Ward, Tokyo, ahead of the Girls' Festival on Thursday.
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March 2, 2011
Search and rescue personnel from around the world stand in Christchurch's Cathedral Square as New Zealand observed two minutes of silence from 12:51 p.m. Tuesday to mark the time of last week's deadly earthquake.
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March 2, 2011
Hula dancers from across the nation perform in Iwaki, Fukushima Prefecture — the location in the hit movie "Hula Girls" — during an event Sunday to promote the traditional Hawaiian dance. Some 650 dancers in 54 teams took part in the event, which also featured four guest dancers from Hawaii.
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March 2, 2011
Shinkansen trains from the past are shown to reporters Tuesday at SCMAGLEV and Railway Park in Nagoya ahead of the March 14 official opening of the new museum, which was built by Central Japan Railway Co. (JR Tokai).
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March 2, 2011
U.S. Ambassador John Roos (center) tries bread dipped in California olive oil at the U.S. pavilion at FOODEX JAPAN 2011 on Tuesday. The 36th International Food and Beverage Exhibition will run through Friday at Makuhari Messe in Chiba Prefecture.
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Feb. 28, 2011
Humorous, fanciful costumes — both homemade and store-bought, depicting monsters, superheroes and anime characters — stood out Sunday at the 2011 Tokyo Marathon, which attracted more than 33,000 runners this year.
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Feb. 28, 2011
Mie Prefecture officials in protective suits carry plastic bags full of dead chickens at a poultry farm in Minami-ise on Sunday. A cull of the farm's 260,000 chickens was launched after some of the birds were found infected with the highly pathogenic H5-type flu virus. It was Mie's second case of bird flu this winter since an outbreak in Kiho.
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Feb. 27, 2011
Visitors walk through a tunnel made of phalaenopsis orchids at an orchid festival at Tottori Hanakairo Flower Park in Nanbucho, Tottori Prefecture, on Saturday. The festival, which kicked off the same day and runs through March 27, features more than 2,000 orchids spanning 20 different varieties.
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Feb. 22, 2011
Geisha and their "maiko" (apprentices) pose Wednesday during a practice for the traditional dance show "Kitano Odori," which will run from March 25 to April 7 at a theater in Kamigyo Ward, Kyoto. Tickets will cost ¥4,500.
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Feb. 22, 2011
A man uses a net to catch "shirouo" in Hirogawa, Wakayama Prefecture, on Monday. The fish, which are only about 3 to 5 cm long, are often served live in a fad called "shirouo no odori gui" (eating dancing shirouo), where they are put into a glass containing vinegar and soy sauce and swilled back like a shot of whiskey.
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Feb. 21, 2011
Miki Ando performs her free program en route to victory at the Four Continents in Taipei on Sunday. Ando's score of 201.34 — a personal best — gave her the edge over runnerup Mao Asada and third-place American Mirai Nagasu. Story: Ando captures gold
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Feb. 20, 2011
Omugi, a 1-year-old otter, reaches through a glass partition to "shake hands" during a media preview for a new greeting service at Keikyu Aburatsubo Marine Park in Kanagawa Prefecture. The otter will greet up to five people a day for the new service, which requires reservations and starts Feb. 26.
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Feb. 18, 2011
Steller's sea eagles rest on drift ice in the Sea of Okhotsk earlier this week. About 100 of the birds, which usually fly from Russia to the eastern side of Hokkaido for the winter, were spotted Tuesday.
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Friday, April 1, 2011
Keidanren urges budget revision for rebuilding
The Japan Business Federation (Nippon Keidanren) urges the government to revise its budget for fiscal 2011 to secure funds for rebuilding the disaster-stricken Tohoku region.
Boeing has received orders from 14 customers for a total of 305 737-900ERs, the newest member of the 737 family. The higher capacity, longer-range derivative of the 737-900 was launched in July 2005. The 737-900ER offers 6 percent lower operating costs per trip and 4 percent lower operating costs per seat mile than competing models.
