TEPCO's "Severe Accident Manual" Takes On Barcode Hairstyle
The House of Representatives Special Committee on Promotion of Science and Technology and Innovation had requested TEPCO submit two operating manuals: one for accidents, and one for severe accidents. On…
North Korea Turns 63, Party Guests Seem Kinda Angry
demonstrators come out to protest the oppressive North Korean regime
Taro Kono: A new leader for a new LDP?
Can the party that created Japan's nuclear industry also clean it up?
NISA Needs To Take Evil Lessons
Sneaky attempts to manipulate public opinion meltdown
The US Declares War On The Yakuza
President Obama cancels his yakuza fanzine subscription
Reimagining Japan: The Quest for a Future that Works
What is the future of Japan? Can the country get back on its feet? It’s a question that the world and the people of Japan are asking themselves. McKinsey &…
US report: human trafficking inside government’s foreign trainee program
Just two months after Japan got burned in the US State Department’s 2010 Human Rights Report, a new paper pins the country’s foreign trainee program as being almost as close…
Einstein, Insanity, Nuclear Meltdowns and Tokyo Electric Power Company
“Would there have been a meltdown at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant even without the tidal wave?” 福島原発事故の記録：津波が来なくてもメルトダウンは起きた？ The July 11 edition of the 週間エコノミスト (The Weekly Economist, a…
Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO): Is it time to turn off the lights?
“Jump in a nuclear reactor and die!’ Those were the words directed at the chairman of Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO) by one angry man at the tense stockholders meeting…
9 Day Warning: On March 2nd, NISA disciplined TEPCO on lax equipment checks before meltdown
On March 2nd, approximately nine days before the TEPCO (Tokyo Electric Power Company) Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant Reactor One melted down, the Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency (NISA) formally disciplined…