“Piping water into the sea is an outrage,” said one Japanese fisher angered by the plan to release radioactive wastewater into the ocean. “The sea is not a garbage dump.” Critics of a Japanese plan to release filtered radioactive wastewater from the Fukushima nuclear disaster into the Pacific Ocean intensified their opposition to the proposal on Wednesday […]
Japan, a professed pacifist nation since the end of World War II, is set to become the planet’s third-biggest military spender. It will be armed with U.S.-built missiles capable of striking China. In a significant departure from its postwar national security strategy—nominally limited to self-defense along with hosting U.S. troops—Japan on Friday announced its plan to […]
“I am greatly shocked to hear that former Prime Minister Abe was shot today,” said a campaigner with 350 Japan. “Such violence is unacceptable.” Former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe was fatally shot Friday as he delivered a campaign speech on behalf of a member of his party just days ahead of the country’s parliamentary […]
(Anchorage) – The Office of Alaska Governor Mike Dunleavy Saturday announced that First Lady Rose Dunleavy is concluding a quarantine for COVID-19 in Japan. The First Lady, who accompanied the Governor on a trade mission to the Asian nation, tested positive for the virus at the Narita International Airport in Tokyo, and went into isolation. […]