Japannese and Ethics
1 – Did you know that Japanese children clean their schools every day for a quarter of an hour with teachers, which … led to the emergence of a Japanese generation who is modest and…
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Deep inside Japan’s nuclear zone (video)
CNN’s Stan Grant reports on the growing frustration in Japan as the nuclear exclusion zone is further closed off.
Doctors haunted by dead patients (video)
Nurses and doctors, unable to save the bedridden in a hospital, struggle with survivor’s guilt.
High radiation levels at Japanese plant raise new worry (video)
Highly radioactive water has been found at a second reactor at a crippled nuclear power station in Japan, the plant’s operator said, as fears of contamination escalated two weeks after a huge earthquake and tsunami…
Letter from Fukushima: A Vietnamese-Japanese Police Officer’s Account
Editor’s note: This letter, written by a Vietnamese immigrant working in Fukishima as a policeman to a friend in Vietnam, has been circulating on Facebook among the Vietnamese diaspora. It is an extraordinary testimony to…
IAEA tracks radiation leaks at Japan’s crippled plant (video)
Japan‘s earthquake-stricken nuclear complex is still emitting radiation but the source is unclear, a senior U.N. atomic agency official said, as workers made progress restoring electric power to the site. The International Atomic Energy Agency…
Chinese Media Coverage of Japan: Where Are the Bodies?
Looking at how Chinese news media covered the two earthquakes that rocked Asia back to back last week —a 5.8-magnitude earthquake in southwest China on Thursday and the 8.9-magnitude earthquake in northeast Japan on Friday—raised…
Japan a robot power everywhere except at nuclear plant
Japan may build robots to play the violin, run marathons and preside over weddings, but it has not deployed any of the machines to help repair its crippled reactors. While robots are commonplace in the…
New blast, fire fuel nuclear fears as death toll climbs in Japan (video)
Sendai, Japan — Japanese Prime Minister Naoto Kan said Tuesday the risk of further releases of radioactive material remains “very high,” as crews struggle to contain an increasingly critical crisis at a damaged nuclear plant.…
6 hurt after blast rocks building at Japanese nuclear plant (video)
White smoke rose again over a nuclear plant in northeastern Japan Monday after an explosion at a building housing a reactor there. A buildup of hydrogen in the Fukushima Daiichi plant’s No. 3 reactor building…
Q&A: What has quake done to Japanese nuclear reactors? (video)
What kind of nuclear reactor is involved? The reactors at the Fukushima Daiichi plant are boiling- water reactors. The reactor affected by the explosion is Fukushima Daiichi 1. It was connected to the grid in…
Witnesses describe the terror, damage from Japan quake and tsunami (video)
Tokyo – He’s lived in Japan for nine years and is no stranger to earthquakes. But Ryan McDonald said this one terrified him. “Oh my God, the building’s going to fall!” the English teacher shouted…
Japan reveals long-secretive execution process
Japan, one of the few industrialized countries with the death penalty, showed one of its execution chambers to the media for the first time Friday. Reporters were shown the death chamber at the Tokyo Detention…
Hirotako Inuzuka: The Culturally Diverse Hero
In a time when there’s less emphasis on maintaining culture, Hirotako Inuzaka goes against the tsunami of conformity and embraces culture on a new scale. Although Hirotako is Japanese, he decided to go beyond his…
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