The Myth of Hiroshima

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By Peter Van Buren Global Research, June 18, 2017 Hooper’s War 16 June 2017 With rare exception, the question of whether the atomic bombs were necessary to end World War Two is debated only deep within the safety of academic circles. Could a land invasion have been otherwise avoided? Would more diplomacy have achieved the same ends […]

Fukushima: Japanese Government Guilty of Destroying Pacific Ocean

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By Daniel Newton Global Research, May 08, 2017 Neonettle.com 7 May 2017 The Japanese Government has been ordered to pay tens of millions in compensation after it was found guilty of negligence causing the Fukushima nuclear disaster. Reports also claim that the ruling could also include other pacific nations like the US who could also be […]

Helen Caldicott: The Fukushima Nuclear Meltdown Continues Unabated. Radioactive Waste into the Pacific Ocean

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By Helen Caldicott Global Research, May 05, 2017 Independent Australia 13 February 2017 Global Research Editor’s Note In 2011, with foresight and scientific analysis Dr. Helen Caldicott focussed on the implications of the Fukushima disaster at a Press Conference in Montreal organized by Global Research. The 2011 GRTV video presentation featuring Dr. Caldicott tells us […]

Reconstruction Disaster: The Human Implications of Japan’s Forced Return Policy in Fukushima

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Suzuki Yūichi interviewed and with an introduction by Katsuya Hirano with Yoshihiro Amaya and Yoh Kawano; Transcription and translation by Akiko Anson By Katsuya Hirano and Suzuki Yūichi Asia-Pacific Research, April 04, 2017 The Asia-Pacific Journal 1 April 2017 Suzuki Yūichi (56) was born to a farming family in Namie, Fukushima in 1960. Namie was […]

Fukushima: “Worst Industrial Cataclysm in World History”, Nuclear Engineer Arnie Gundersen

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“As Close to Hell as I can Imagine” By Arnie Gundersen Global Research, March 17, 2017 ENE News 14 March 2017 Arnie Gundersen, former nuclear engineer, Mar 11, 2017: “The scientific impact of the triple meltdown at Fukushima Daiichi is an ongoing disaster that was never envisioned by the engineers who created and designed these […]

Trump’s Lavish Welcome for Japan’s Prime Minister. US-Japan Security Treaty Directed against China

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By Peter Symonds Global Research, February 11, 2017 World Socialist Web Site 11 February 2017 US President Trump has gone out of his way to provide a gushing welcome to Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, who began a two-day state visit to the US yesterday with discussions between the two men and a joint press […]

Extremely High Radiation Breaks down Fukushima “Clean-Up Robot” at Damaged Nuclear Reactor

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By RT Global Research, February 12, 2017 RT 11 February 2017 A clean-up mission using a remotely operated robot at Japan’s crippled Fukushima nuclear plant has had to be aborted, as officials feared they could completely lose control of the probe affected by unexpectedly high levels of radiation. The robot equipped with a high-pressure water […]

New Radiation Level at Fukushima Dwarfs the Highest Peak at Chernobyl

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By Washington’s Blog Global Research, February 07, 2017 Washington’s Blog 6 February 2017 The Fukushima Disaster We noted a few days after the Japanese earthquake that the amount of radioactive fuel at Fukushima dwarfs that at Chernobyl … and that the cesium fallout from Fukushima already rivaled Chernobyl (we also noted that Fukushima radiation could end up on the West […]

US Defence Secretary Backs Japan, Threatens War against China over Disputed Islets

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By Peter Symonds Global Research, February 06, 2017 World Socialist Web Site US Defence Secretary James Mattis provoked a hostile response from China when he assured his Japanese counterpart Tomomi Inada on Saturday that the US alliance with Japan covered the disputed islets in the East China Sea known as Senkaku in Japan, and Diaoyu […]

Radiation Levels Are Soaring inside the Damaged Fukushima Nuclear Plant

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By George Dvorsky Global Research, February 04, 2017 Gizmodo 3 February 2017 Radiation levels inside a damaged reactor at Japan’s Fukushima nuclear plant have hit a record high, and are the worst since the plant suffered a triple meltdown nearly six years ago. The latest readings now pose a serious challenge as officials prepare to […]

The Fukushima Disaster and the Future of Nuclear Power in Japan

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An Interview with Former Prime Minister Kan Naoto By Vincenzo Capodici and Shaun Burnie Global Research, January 08, 2017 The Asia-Pacific Journal 15 September 2016 Introduction For more than two decades, the global nuclear industry has attempted to frame the debate on nuclear power within the context of climate change: nuclear power is better than […]

Trump’s Election: An Opportunity to Reevaluate US-Japan Relations. The Benefits for Japan of a U.S. Military Withdrawal

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Threat to Charge More for U.S. Forces Stationed in Japan: Taoka Shunji Says “Let Them Leave.” Introduction and translation by Steve Rabson By Taoka Shunji and Steve Rabson Global Research, January 01, 2017 Asia Pacific Journal 1 January 2017   Introduction by Steve Rabson Ever since the end of America’s Vietnam catastrophe, experts on both sides of […]

Defending the Rights of Fukushima Victims, Humanitarian and Environmental Crisis: Debate in Japan’s Parliament

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Statement of Taro Yamamoto MP By Fukushima 311 Watchdogs Global Research, January 01, 2017 Fukushima 311 Watchdogs 14 December 2016 Taro Yamamoto of the Liberal Party is a member of the Chamber of Deputies. He is one of the few parliamentary members defending the rights of victims of the TEPCO Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant disaster. […]

Radioactive Plume From Fukushima Makes Landfall on America’s West Coast

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By Emerson Urry Global Research, December 20, 2016 EnviroNews Oregon 16 December 2016 Tillamook County, Oregon — Seaborne cesium 134, the so-called “fingerprint of Fukushima,” has been detected on US shores for the first time researchers from the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) said this month. WHOI is a crowd-funded science seawater sampling project, that has been […]

Fukushima: Japan’s Second Nuclear Disaster

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By Sherwood Ross Global Research, November 21, 2016 Global Research 10 November 2011 In light of developing events in Japan, we bring to the attention of our readers this piece on the Fukushima disaster originally published in November 2011: Terming Fukushima Japan’s “second massive nuclear disaster,” novelist Haruki Murakami said “this time no one dropped […]

Why Okinawa Matters: Japan, The United States And The Colonial Past

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By Richard Falk Global Research, October 20, 2016 The Asia-Pacific Journal This article provides a critical discussion of Okinawa’s role in serving American and Japanese strategic interests. Since the end of World War II Okinawa has been a mostly unhappy host of American military bases, and the issue has been prominent at times on the […]

Fukushima Nuclear Radiation Has Contaminated the Entire Pacific Ocean – And It’s Going to Get Worse

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By Whitney Webb Global Research, October 02, 2016 True Activist 29 September 2016 What was the most dangerous nuclear disaster in world history? Most people would say the Chernobyl nuclear disaster in Ukraine, but they’d be wrong. In 2011, an earthquake, believed to be an aftershock of the 2010 earthquake in Chile, created a tsunami […]

Japan’s Descent into Authoritarianism

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By Saul Takahashi Global Research, August 14, 2016 The appointment of Tomomi Inada as Japan’s Defence Minister, and the lack of tough questioning of Inada from the domestic media, is yet another indicator of how far Japan is in its descent into authoritarian rule under Prime Minister Shinzo Abe. Inada is a longstanding rightwing extremist […]

August 6: Hiroshima Day. The Dawn of the Nuclear Age

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GR News Hour: Three Interviews on the New Nuclear Threat By Michael Welch and Prof Michel Chossudovsky Global Research, August 05, 2016 Originally posted on August 6, 2015 commemorating the 60th anniversary of Hiroshima “I am become death, destroyer of worlds.” -J. Robert Oppenheimer LISTEN TO THE SHOW Length (59:38) Click to download the audio […]

Coup D’état in Japan: Unconstitutional “War Legislation” Passed as Tokyo Re-Arms

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By Muto Ichiyo Asia-Pacific Research, July 04, 2016 Japan Focus: The Asia-Pacific Journal 1 July 2016 This is a translation of a keynote speech delivered by Muto Ichiyo at a peace conference held in Hiroshima Aug. 4-5, 2015, marking the 70th anniversary of Japan’s defeat in the war. The conference, attended by 300 local and national […]

What Japanese Media Doesn’t Want You To Say!

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Japan is Part of the Neo-Colonialist Clique By Andre Vltchek June 27, 2016 “Information Clearing House” – Write that ‘Japan is part of the neo-colonialist clique’, and you will never again be invited to participate in any public debate conducted by Japanese mass media outlets. And that is exactly what I wrote several months ago, […]

Abe sets date for Japan’s upper house election

By Ben McGrath 18 June 2016 Prime Minister Shinzo Abe officially announced this month that this summer’s upper house election in Japan would take place on July 10, while pledging to again delay a scheduled consumption tax increase. Half of the 242 seats in the upper house are elected every three years. The ruling Liberal […]

Fukushima and Nuclear Power: Does the Advertising Giant Dentsu Pull the Strings of Japan’s Media?

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By Mathieu Gaulène Global Research, June 05, 2016 INA Global and Asia-Pacific Journal 1 June 2016 French journalist Mathieu Gaulène describes the business practices of Dentsu and its competitor Hakuhodo, the biggest and the second biggest advertising companies of Japan respectively. Specifically, it examines how their close relations to the media and the nuclear industry […]

Obama in Hiroshima

28 May 2016 Taking a side trip from a G7 summit meeting in Tokyo that was dominated by US war preparations against China, Barack Obama played the advocate of world brotherhood and international morality at Hiroshima’s Peace Memorial Friday. Overshadowing the visit was a muted public debate over whether, as the first sitting US president […]

Bombing Hiroshima Changed The World, But It Didn’t End WWII

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By Oliver Stone and Peter Kuznick May 27, 2016 “Information Clearing House” – “LA Times” –   President Obama’s visit to Hiroshima on Friday has rekindled public debate about the U.S. atomic bombings of Japan — one largely suppressed since the Smithsonian canceled its Enola Gay exhibit in 1995. Obama, aware that his critics are […]

The Decision to Bomb Hiroshima and Nagasaki

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Unjust Cause By Andrew Cockburn President Obama is about to visit the Japanese city of Hiroshima, where on August 6, 1945, the United States dropped an atomic bomb that killed 140,000 people. Earlier this month, Deputy National Security Advisor Ben Rhodes wrote on Medium.com that “the President will shine a spotlight on the tremendous and […]

Obama and Hiroshima: “Ask Forgiveness for America’s Terrible Deed”

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By Jonathan Power Global Research, May 26, 2016 TFF 16 May 2016 We were standing in Hiroshima looking at a stone wall. All there was to see was a shadow of a man. It had been etched into the wall at the moment of his obliteration by the blinding light of the first atomic bomb. […]

If Obama Visits Hiroshima

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By Richard Falk Global Research, May 17, 2016 The Asia Pacific Journal 15 May 2016 There are mounting hopes that Barack Obama will use the occasion of the Group of 7 meeting in Japan in May to visit Hiroshima, and become the first American president to do so. It is remarkable that it required a […]

The True State of the Fukushima Nuclear Power Plant Accident: Internal Exposure Concealed

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By Yagasaki Katsuma Global Research, May 17, 2016 The Asia Pacific Journal 15 May 2016 Yagasaki Katsuma, emeritus professor of Ryukyu University, has been constantly sounding the alarm about the problem of internal exposure related to nuclear weapons testing and nuclear electricity generation. Since the explosion at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant (NPP), he […]

Contamination at Largest US Air Force Base in Asia: Kadena, Okinawa

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By Jon Mitchell Global Research, May 02, 2016 The Asia-Pacific Journal 1 May 2016 Located in the center of Okinawa Island, Kadena Air Base is the largest United States Air Force installation in Asia. Equipped with two 3.7 kilometer runways and thousands of hangars, homes and workshops, the base and its adjoining arsenal at Chibana […]

The Japanese Government Spreads Misinformation On North Korea’s Rocket Launch

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By Taoka Shunji Global Research, April 16, 2016 The Asia Pacific Journal 15 April 2016 The Illusion of Japan’s “Missile Destruction Order” The Japanese government has described the North Korean rocket launched on February 7 as “a long range ballistic missile disguised as a satellite launching vehicle.” Even after it was confirmed that a satellite […]

The Slow Bleed: Fukushima Radiation Five Years On

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By Vincent Di Stefano Global Research, April 16, 2016 Countercurrents 15 April 2016 The melt down of three nuclear reactors at Fukushima in the wake of the earthquake and tsunami of 11th March 2011 seems to have quietly slipped out of our collective awareness – as quietly as the cauldrons of radioactive elements that were […]

John Kerry in Hiroshima. America’s Unspoken Agenda: Nuclear Weapons are Intended to be Used

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By Andre Damon Global Research, April 12, 2016 World Socialist Web Site On Monday, US Secretary of State John Kerry visited the Japanese city of Hiroshima, the target of the first nuclear bomb ever used in wartime. On August 6, 1945, the United States dropped an atomic bomb on the city, killing between 70,000 and […]

Japanese Economy Continues to Show Signs of Faltering

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By Ben McGrath Global Research, March 29, 2016 World Socialist Web Site The Japanese government downgraded its assessment of the economy last Wednesday following a similar move by its central bank the previous week. Notwithstanding the initial hype which surrounded it, Prime Minister Abe’s economic agenda—so-called Abenomics—is now a dead letter so far as any […]

Fukushima: Japan’s “National Resilience” and The Legacy of 3-11

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By Andrew Dewit Global Research, March 17, 2016 The Asia-Pacific Journal, Vol. 14, Issue 6 15 March 0201 Five years after Japan’s natural and nuclear disasters of March 11, 2011 (3-11), few observers can find a positive legacy among the irradiated ruins. Fukushima rightly remains an icon of the folly of building fragile large-scale power […]

The Fukushima Endgame: The Radioactive Contamination of the Pacific Ocean

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By Prof Michel Chossudovsky Global Research, March 11, 2016 First published in December 17, 2014. This article by Professor Michel Chossudovsky was granted the 2015 Project Censored Award. Ranked No. 5 among the 25 most censored news stories. Nuclear radiation resulting from the March 2011 Fukushima disaster –which threatens life on planet earth– is not front page […]

Five Years after Japan’s Nuclear Disaster, TEPCO Executives Charged

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By Ben McGrath Global Research, March 10, 2016 World Socialist Web Site In the lead up to the fifth anniversary of the Fukushima nuclear disaster, three former Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO) executives were indicted late last month over their role in the meltdown of three reactors at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Plant. Tsunehisa Katsumata, […]

28 Signs That The West Coast Is Being Absolutely Fried With Nuclear Radiation From Fukushima

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By Michael Snyder Global Research, March 10, 2016 The Truth 21 October 2013 Note: 5 years after the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster, we bring to the attention of our readers this piece originally published in October 2013 The map below comes from the Nuclear Emergency Tracking Center.  It shows that radiation levels at radiation monitoring stations all […]

Japan’s Territorial Dispute with Russia: Prime Minister Abe’s 2016 Plan to Break the Deadlock

By James Brown Global Research, February 22, 2016 The Asia-Pacific Journal, Vol. 14, Issue 4, No. 1 15 February 2016 The territorial dispute between Japan and Russia has its origins in the closing stages of the Second World War. Specifically, after declaring war on Japan on the evening of 8 August 1945 (two days after […]

Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe Pushes to Remove Constitutional Constraints on Military

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By Ben McGrath Global Research, February 15, 2016 World Socialist Web Site In the lead up to this summer’s parliamentary upper house election, Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe intends to make constitutional revision a major feature of the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) campaign. The proposed changes would formally remove any barriers to Japan’s ability to […]

What Lessons Can Vietnam teach Okinawa about U.S. Military Dioxin?

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By Jon Mitchell Global Research, February 12, 2016 The Asia-Pacific Journal, Vol. 14, Issue 3, No. 2, 1 February 2016 In December 2015, Urasoe City pledged to conduct a survey of former base employees to ascertain the extent of contamination at Camp Kinser, a 2.7 square kilometer US Marine Corps supply base located in the […]