ChikuwaQ: ’Happy Birthday’ copyright suit filed | The Japan Times http://t.co/13N7RAr3ed
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ChikuwaQ: ’Happy Birthday’ copyright suit filed | The Japan Times http://t.co/13N7RAr3ed
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ChikuwaQ : Making sense of medieval avatars | The Japan Times http://t.co/9XfJ1qlGPa
http://twitter.com/ChikuwaQ/statuses/345197853297238016ChikuwaQ : Making sense of medieval avatars | The Japan Times http://t.co/9XfJ1qlGPa
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ChikuwaQ: Preserving a classic Japanese art form: tokusatsu magic | The Japan Times http://t.co/YBTfVdiDCn
http://twitter.com/ChikuwaQ/statuses/344801444408463361ChikuwaQ: Preserving a classic Japanese art form: tokusatsu magic | The Japan Times http://t.co/YBTfVdiDCn
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ChikuwaQ: Japan’s Gutai artists celebrated like never before | The Japan Times http://t.co/0Y6B4HWWI0
http://twitter.com/ChikuwaQ/statuses/343560786943295489ChikuwaQ: Japan’s Gutai artists celebrated like never before | The Japan Times http://t.co/0Y6B4HWWI0
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ChikuwaQ: Mono no aware: subtleties of understanding | The Japan Times http://t.co/mk9yHnSKeM
http://twitter.com/ChikuwaQ/statuses/342642087403089920ChikuwaQ: Mono no aware: subtleties of understanding | The Japan Times http://t.co/mk9yHnSKeM
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#Taiwan, #Japan share atomic power dilemma | The Japan Times Online
http://www.japantimes.co.jp/text/nn20120411f1.htmlTaiwan has three nuclear power stations, two in the north and one in the south. All have operated safely and profitably for many years while providing nearly 20 percent of the island’s electricity.
But the facilities are getting old — the oldest is slated for decommissioning in 2018 and another in 2019.
Construction of a fourth plant began in 1998 in New Taipei City on the northeast coast, but various shutdowns due to engineering problems and policy reversals have delayed its completion.
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Agent Orange buried at beach strip? | The Japan Times Online
http://www.japantimes.co.jp/text/nn20111130a5.htmlDozens of barrels of the toxic defoliant Agent Orange were buried in the late 1960s beneath what is now a busy neighborhood in the central Okinawa Island town of Chatan, near Araha Beach, according to a former U.S. soldier who has recently pinpointed the location thanks to a 1970 map of a U.S. base obtained by The Japan Times.
The alleged burial took place in 1969 when the area was part of the U.S. Hamby Air Field, but since its return to civilian use in 1981 the area has been redeveloped into a sightseeing area. Nearby today are restaurants, hotels and apartment buildings on a street running parallel to popular Araha Beach.
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Radioactive soil can fill 23 Tokyo Domes | The Japan Times Online
http://search.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/nn20110929a3.htmlRadioactive soil and vegetation that must be removed in #Fukushima and four adjacent prefectures could reach up to 28.79 million cu. meters, equal to filling the Tokyo Dome 23 times, according to a recent Environment Ministry estimate.
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Tokyo faced evacuation scenario: Kan | The Japan Times Online
http://search.japantimes.co.jp/member/member.html?mode=getarticle&file=nn20110919a1.htmlIn the days immediately after the crisis began at the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant, the government received a report saying 30 million residents in the Tokyo metropolitan area would have to be evacuated in a worst-case scenario, former Prime Minister Naoto Kan revealed in a recent interview.
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MALAISE – Pour construire la centrale, Tepco avait raboté la falaise
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« Un ancien employé de Tepco, Katsumi Naganuma se sent aujourd’hui coupable. Il y a quarante ans, Tepco a décidé de raboter une falaise naturelle de 35 mètres — une barrière naturelle contre les tsunamis — pour construire la centrale de Fukushima Dai-Ichi plus près de la mer. »
Le tragique en devient quasi comique.
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Core of reactor 1 melted 16 hours after quake | The Japan Times Online
http://search.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/nn20110516a1.htmlMonday, May 16, 2011
Core of reactor 1 melted 16 hours after quake
New analysis shows damage to fuel rods was surprisingly quick
KyodoThe meltdown at reactor No. 1 in Fukushima happened more quickly than feared, Tokyo Electric Power Co. said Sunday in a new analysis.
The core of the heavily damaged reactor at the Fukushima No. 1 power plant is believed to have melted 16 hours after the March 11 mega-quake and tsunami rocked the complex in northeastern Japan.
Preliminary analysis shows that No. 1 had already entered a critical state by 6:50 a.m. on March 12, with most of its fuel having melted and fallen to the bottom of the pressure vessel, the plant operator said. Tepco released data Thursday showing some of the fuel rods had melted.
The reactor automatically halted operations immediately after the 2:46 p.m. quake, but the water level in the reactor dropped and the temperature began rising at around 6 p.m. The damage to the fuel rods had begun by 7:30 p.m., with most of them having melted by 6:50 a.m. the following day, the utility said.
While the utility had planned to bring the nation’s worst nuclear accident under control in around six to nine months from mid-April, it now has no choice but to abandon a plan to flood the containment vessel of reactor 1 because holes have been created by the melted fuel, an adviser to Prime Minister Naoto Kan said earlier Sunday.
Nevertheless, Goshi Hosono, the top official tasked with handling the nuclear crisis, told TV programs the government had yet to revise the timetable for bringing the crisis to an end.
Asked about initial plans to completely submerge the 4-meter-tall fuel rods by entombing the vessel in water, Hosono said, “We should not cause the (radioactive) water to flow into the sea by taking such a measure.”
Hosono said the government will instead consider ways to decontaminate the water being used to cool the fuel so that it can be recirculated instead of letting it flood the facility.
Hosono made the remarks after Tepco discovered a pool of water more than 4 meters deep and exceeding 3,000 tons in the basement of reactor No. 1. This suggests that the water, which is likely highly radioactive, is seeping through the holes after being injected into the reactor core.
From there, it is probably leaking from either the containment vessel or the suppression pool, which enclose the pressure vessel, and into the piping.
In a related revelation concerning a major mixup after the six-reactor complex lost power, Tepco and other sources said the same day that the utility had assembled 69 power supply vehicles at the plant by March 12 but that these proved virtually useless.
The inability to use the vehicles delayed the damage control work at the plant, significantly worsening the emergency.
Tepco earlier said it had tried to connect the vehicles to power-receiving equipment needed to operate the water pumps intended to cool down the reactors. But this failed because the equipment was submerged in seawater from the tsunami, which posed the risk that the equipment would short out.
Tepco’s account conflicts with the one detailed by the Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency, which mentioned the first arrival of such a vehicle on the evening of March 11 but stopped mentioning it the following day, as the focus of attention had shifted to the need to release radioactive steam to relieve pressure that had built up inside the containment vessel of reactor 1.
The different versions of the story given by Tepco and the agency might come to a head as investigations progress to determine why efforts to immediately contain the crisis failed.
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’LED smiles’ — how a nonexistent Japanese schoolgirl craze became a #meme | The Japan Times Online
http://search.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/fd20110130a1.htmlA nonexistent Japanese style trend turned into Internet meme this past week, thanks to a New York Times blog, the online version of The Guardian and other news websites. If the report — which was passed verbatim from site to site, tweet to tweet — was to be believed, the latest craze among Japanese schoolgirls was a colorful dental accessory: flashing LED lights, held in the mouth. The Japanese artists who created the device, however, say it’s a stretch.
