Japanese Parliamentarian Ms. Kuniko Tanioka is one of the few Japanese politicians willing to speak out publicly and critically on the Fukushima nuclear meltdowns and her government’s response to it. She is joined by Robert Alvarez, IPS senior scholar, in a briefing on Fukushima to occur May 10.
Japan is still digging its way out of the earthquake and tsunami that hit in March. Here’s a way to help.
As with methyl-mercury a half century ago, Japan is once again threatened by a new persistent toxin accumulating in its food and water.
As Japan’s government gets set to expand a nuclear evacuation area, the mayor of a city inside the radioactive zone speaks about his fears.
The Japanese NGO Peace Boat puts the humanity back into humanitarian relief operations.
In nuclear energy, as in economics and security issues, Japan has engaged in some seriously risky business.
During this ongoing nuclear disaster, Japanese leaders should do a great deal more to safeguard the children of the country.
Will the Department of Energy stop trying to bring on a nuclear renaissance?
Nuclear reactors fail you just when you need them most.
Will Japan’s crippled reactors slow the renewed rush to nuclear energy?
A meltdown would affect the future of nuclear energy in the United States, as well as Japan.
The devastating Japanese quake and its outcome could generate a political tsunami here in the United States.
Two years after the Indian Ocean tsunami, Sri Lanka’s survivors are still fleeing for their lives.
The recent South Asian tsunami??s devastation has already claimed at least 144,000 lives, caused countless injuries and wiped out entire villages. Concern now turns to the escalating death count caused by the spread of disease.