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February 27, 2012 by admin

Contaminated soil

Japan relies on the decontamination of soils that were contaminated by the nuclear power plant disaster in Fukushima. Layers of the earth be removed, streets and courtyards is rinsed with water and cut down the trees. This has the consequence that in the coming months and years to accumulate specifically in the Fukushima Prefecture million cubic meters of contaminated soil. Read the rest of this entry »

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February 26, 2012 by admin

The nuclear exchange business

Vietnam wants nuclear power plants make it one of its main energy supplier. The emerging nation looking for suitable partners that you provide the necessary technology is available and is focusing on Japan.For had the Vietnamese Government in October 2010 closed with the Japanese cabinet of then Prime Minister Naoto Kan, a corresponding agreement. Read the rest of this entry »

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February 23, 2012 by admin

Ministers and idiots

Tatsuo Hirano, Japan's new minister of reconstruction, after his predecessor, Ryu Matsumoto, 3 months ago in an interview with the Governor of Miyagi Prefecture crisis in tone and demeanor had sold out.Hirano, born in Iwate Prefecture and so even from a tsunami-affected region, would find the right words, was convinced the government. Read the rest of this entry »

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February 22, 2012 by admin

Poorest of the Prime Minister

No, he is not a goldfish, the Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda said before he took office. Much rather he sees himself as Loach, a burrowing freshwater fish in the mud. This comparison also seems to apply his financial situation. Because Yoshihiko Noda must adorn himself with the title of the “poorest Prime Minister” for nearly three decades. Read the rest of this entry »

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February 20, 2012 by admin

The other China

Apart from the People's Republic exists yet another, a Democratic China: The Republic of China, which is restricted to the island of Taiwan. Beijing sees the island as a renegade province and has directed more than 1,000 missiles at Taiwan – the Republic of China which is not to hinder her 100-year anniversary to celebrate. Read the rest of this entry »

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February 19, 2012 by admin

The pilgrim Ex-Premier

About a month ago, when Japanese Prime Minister Naoto Kan as ceded. Since then, it is quiet around the man. Naoto Kan, who is also MP for the ruling Democratic Party in the House, has taken in a literal sense, a time-out. As the Swiss Thomas Koehler also the ex-prime minister is traveling on foot in Japan. Read the rest of this entry »

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February 18, 2012 by admin

Half the Deal

The U.S. has agreed to upgrade Taiwan's F-16-A/B-Kampfjets. While Beijing angrily summoned the U.S. ambassador, is pleased to be in Taiwan on the commitment of the United States. Taiwan's president was grateful, but he actually hoped for more.President Ma Ying-jeou said after the announcement that he was grateful to Washington that it was ready to upgrade the Taiwanese fighter jets, the Taiwanese news agency CNA reported. Read the rest of this entry »

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February 17, 2012 by admin

No fireworks of Fukushima

The annual fireworks display of Nisshin City, Aichi Prefecture, was this year features the reconstruction of tsunami-affected prefectures of Iwate, Miyagi and Fukushima. For this purpose, the organizing committee bought fireworks from plants of those regions. But a few days before the festival, the organizers received e-mails and phone calls from concerned residents of Nisshin. Read the rest of this entry »

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February 16, 2012 by admin

“Sayonara nuclear power!”

“The huge influx suggests that the crisis has shaken up the spirit of a nation finally usually passive,” the Japan Times wrote about the biggest protest so far against nuclear power.On Monday, it was a holiday in Japan, gathered 60,000 people peacefully demonstrating at Tokyo's Meiji Park Sayonara-The-nuclear meeting they called their protest meeting, which later led a peaceful march through the district of Omotesando and Aoyama . Read the rest of this entry »

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February 15, 2012 by admin

Urban sprawl instead of resettlement

Many of the victims of the tsunami of 11 March did not want to go back to their former villages to big is the fear of a new natural disaster. They would rather build their devastated communities on safe ground in upland areas or inland again. This is a tax levied by the Sankei Shimbun survey among residents of temporary shelters. Read the rest of this entry »

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