Fox News reveals Tokyo Music Hall “Shibuya Eggman” is really a secret nuclear reactor! (NOT)
Just when you feel like there’s no hope left in the world, and the constant barrage of negative news about the earthquake in Japan and the looming radioactive death storm…
How dangerous is low-level radiation? Perhaps, much less riskier than we think.
Everyone knows that high levels of radiation are deadly. It seems that no one is certain of how much low-level radiation poses a serious health threat. It’s one of the…
Latest Travel Warning from the U.S. State Department
Travel Warning U.S. DEPARTMENT OF STATE Bureau of Consular Affairs March 18, 2011 The U.S. Department of State warns U.S citizens of the deteriorating situation at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear…
The worst of times can bring out the best in everyone, even the yakuza.
I wrote this piece for the Daily Beast and supplied them with confidential materials to vet the article as well. I’d like to say that I’m not an advocate of…
Please no stealing! (please!)
“If your home was hit by a 9.0-magnitude earthquake, a tsunami, and radiation from a nuclear power plant, you’d be forgiven for not remaining calm”, speculates Christopher Beam in a…
Updated list: How to donate to relief efforts in Japan
Note: This is an updated list from the previous entry. If you have anything to add, please let us know in the comments. For those who are interested in contributing…
"If the cooling system stops, we could be facing a catastrophe" Nuclear Engineer at FCCJ
Anti-nuclear group, the CNIC (Citizen’s Nuclear Information Center) held a press conference on March 13th, at the Foreign Correspondents Press Club (FCCJ) with Masashi Goto, a former Toshiba engineer who…
For those in Japan: Protecting yourself from nuclear radiation. What you can do.
The Fukushima Daiichi nuclear reactor (福島第一原発)in Fukushima Prefecture has seriously malfunctioned. The Tokyo government announced on the 15th that levels of radiation in Shinjuku-ward were at their peak as high…
Tohoku disaster: How to help
As I’m sure everyone is aware, Japan was hit by a massive M8.8 earthquake off the coast of Sendai on March 11. As aftershocks still rock most of Honshu, the…
The Coast Guard Agent Who Tried To Rescue Japan: A Humble Hero
Mr. Masaharu Isshiki (一色正春元海上保安官), the former Coast Guard official who released a classified videotape of the Chinese boat incident on Youtube last December, held a press conference at the FCCJ…