January 10, 2012: New on TokyoProgressive

Click to read, with links on Fukushima, Okinawa, Homelessness, N. Korea and more…

All these stories are from our links at the bottom of the main page. We will shortly resume publishing our own summaries.

JAPAN DISASTER BLOG Pt 1
-Japanese Expert Says Fukushima II (not I) Nuke Plant’s Containment Vessel Has Been Damaged by the Quake
-Fuku-I Nuke Plant Blowout Panel Mystery: Were They Really Welded-Shut or Not?
(partial list of stories)

JAPAN DISASTER BLOG Pt 2
-Mysterious Spike in Cesium Fallout in Fukushima on Jan 2, 2012 (Updated with Chiba Information)
-Dörte Siedentopf on Fukushima Nuclear Disaster: “They Haven’t Learned Anything from Chernobyl” (2 parts)
(partial list of stories)

JAPAN DISASTER BLOG Pt 3
-Report from Fukushima (2) Minami Soma: A Woman Speaks Out on Her Health Problems in Post-Accident Fukushima
-Reality Inside #Fukushima I Nuke Plant (2): 10% of Workers Are Yakuza-Sourced
-0.5 Microsievert/Hr Radiation on Tohoku Shinkansen (Bullet Train) Trip To Fukushima
-Radioactive Disaster Debris Talk in Osaka: Officials Didn’t Know Anything About Radiation
(partial list of stories)

JAPAN DISASTER BLOG Pt 4
-The Atlantic Wire: The Yakuza and the Nuclear Mafia
-Fukushima I Nuke Plant: Reactor Bldgs of Reactors 1, 3, 4 Blew Up Because Blowout Panels Were Welded Shut, Fuku-I Workers Say
(partial list of stories)

KOIDE HIROAKI PAGE
-1月9日 4号機倒壊の危険性と40年原則廃炉について 小出裕章
-1月5日 (ERSSが作動しなかったことは)SPEEDIデータを公表しなかったことの言いわけ 小出裕章
-1月4日 若い人達にこれだけ汚染した世の中を残すわけですから、私の出来ることをさがそうと思います 小出裕章
-12月26日 今のような政治ではどんな委員会をつくったところで何も変わらない。私は受けません。1対1の公開討論ならどこへでも行きますが 小出裕章

(partial list of stories)

PEACE PHILOSOPHY CENTER
-「原発事故の際にIAEAに忠告を求めてはならない」ミッシェル・フェルネックス博士緊急提言　Dr. Michel Fernex warns health consequences of Fukushima
-SAKURAI Kunitoshi: The Fatally Flawed EIS Report on the Futenma Air Station Replacement Facility – With Special Reference to the Okinawa Dugong
-浦島悦子：辺野古アセス評価書、防衛局が未明の「奇襲」－稲嶺名護市長「あきれてものが言えない」

(partial list of stories)

MASUOKA KEN TRANSLATIONS
-イラク戦争：道徳の勝利、そして死者の選択的考慮 / ラムジー・バルード
-ファルージャ：隠された真実 / ハンナ・ガーマン
(partial list of stories)

JAPAN FOCUS
-North Korea after Kim Jong Il: The Kim Jong Un era and its challenges
-Okinawa, New Year 2012: Tokyo’s Year End Surprise Attack
-Science with a Skew: The Nuclear Power Industry After Chernobyl and Fukushima
-Failed Manhood on the Streets of Urban Japan: The Meanings of Self-Reliance for Homeless Men
-Nuclear Irresponsibility: Koide Hiroaki Interviewed by Le Monde
(partial list of stories)

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