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Take a tour of the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant seven years after the disaster 【Video】

Oona McGee
Nov 14, 2018
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TEPCO seeks to redeem its reputation with the public by offering virtual tours of the site in Japanese and English.

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(Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant • Fukushima • Fukushima Daiichi • Fukushima nuclear disaster • nuclear power plant • TEPCO • videos)

TEPCO in hot water for use of tasteless hashtag in recent tweet about Fukushima Nuclear Plant

Krista Rogers
Nov 5, 2018

Japanese net users upset over the power company’s use of a slang term commonly found in anime.

Japan
(3.11 • apology • controversial • Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant • earthquake • Fukushima nuclear disaster • TEPCO • tsunami • twitter)

Tohoku Region Drug Dealers Slow to Anticipate Local Demand

John Stuart Translations
Apr 28, 2013

“Customer growth is stronger now compared to immediately after the quake,” said G, an organized crime group affiliate familiar with the illegal drug market. The Great Hanshin-Awaji Earthquake of 1995 proved there was a good post-disaster market for illegal drugs among temporary housing residents and others suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). As a result, when the Great East Japan Earthquake struck, dealers from major urban centers swiftly loaded up and headed north to disaster-afflicted areas in the Tohoku region in search of quick profits.

According to G, “First on the scene were the stimulant drug pushers who began selling out of their cars on the back streets and in pachinko (pinball) parlor parking lots. Customers were wide-ranging, from high school students and young bar hostesses to grandfathers and grandmothers. Inferior grades of speed which couldn’t be sold in Tokyo and Osaka were offloaded there.”
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(Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant • drug dealers • illegal drugs • narcotics • Osaka • sleeping pills • Tohoku Earthquake • Tokyo)

No Improvement for Fukushima Decontamination Workers – Subcontractors Still Only Paying One-fifth Minimum Wage

John Stuart Translations
Apr 6, 2013

A dinner of boiled vegetables and 3.3 square meters of floor space for sleeping, those are the harsh conditions awaiting laborers who undertake government-mandated decontamination work necessitated by the nuclear accident at Tokyo Electric’s Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant in Fukushima Prefecture. In some cases workers are basically laboring for free when taxpayer-funded danger pay is excluded from their pay packets.
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(daiichi • Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant • Decontamination • Fukushima • harsh • minimum wage • Nuclear accident • Radiation • wages)

Google to Photograph Street Views of Evacuated Town in Fukushima

Michelle Lynn Dinh
Mar 6, 2013

It wasn’t just the earthquake or tsunami of March 11, 2011 that shattered the town of Namie in Fukushima Prefecture, it was the subsequent radiation. Slowly creeping across the once fertile land, it ripped families from their homes and banished them to evacuation centers elsewhere. Today, nearly two years after the worse nuclear disaster since Chernobyl, the entire 86 square miles of Namie have been declared uninhabitable due to high levels of radioactive cesium. Even if families wanted to return, they can’t.

Amid this tragic loss, Google Street View is giving the people of Namie a chance to visit the town they were forced to flee.