(Rys2Sense) – Stop School beatings. It’s pointless. Especially for extra activities like sports. Read the rest of this entry »

(RussiaToday) – Maritime dominance appears to be turning into a high-tech, high-stakes arms race in the East China Sea. China and Japan are vying for power in the disputed territory – and it’s drones that are quickly coming to the forefront of the race. RT talks to James Corbett – editor of a Japan-based news website “Corbett Report” Read the rest of this entry »

(RussiaToday) – Europe’s drawn-out efforts to pull itself out of the economic mire, are well documented. But, it’s not alone – Japan has now entered its fifth recession in 15 years. It comes just days before the country’s election, which is expected to sweep the current Prime Minister from power. RT talks to James Corbett, editor of the current affairs website The Corbett Report. Read the rest of this entry »

(Rys2Sense) – Right before Japanese and South Korean elections how timely. Read the rest of this entry »

(Rys2Sense) – Heads will be rolling. Japan’s election are in just a week. Read the rest of this entry »

(Telegraph) – The order to destroy the missile should any part of it threaten to fall onto Japanese territory was issued after a meeting of the Security Council of Japan met and was informed that North Korea has begun filling a fuel tank alongside the launch pad at the Sohae Satellite Launching Station in preparation for the launch. Read the rest of this entry »

(VoiceofAmerica) – Japan’s Coast Guard says at least two Chinese government vessels have entered territorial waters near Japanese-controlled islands, as a dispute escalates on the sensitive anniversary of Japan’s invasion of China. Read the rest of this entry »

(HigginsBlog) – The US has order a halt to the resumption of Japanese beef imports over concerns about Japan’s testing methods. Read the rest of this entry »

(AFP) – Genetic mutations have been found in three generations of butterflies from near Japan’s crippled Fukushima nuclear plant, scientists said Tuesday, raising fears radiation could affect other species. Read the rest of this entry »

(HigginsBlog) – Despite the ongoing Fukushima nuclear disaster industry cohorts have issued a blanket dismissal of scientists concerns over a failing nuclear reactor. Read the rest of this entry »

In 10 Years, Peak Cesium Levels Off West Coast Could Be 10 Times Higher Than at Coast of Japan

(WashingtonsBlog) – We’ve extensively documented the fact that ocean currents bring Japanese radiation to the West Coast of North America, and that – rather than adequate ocean dilution -  there could be “pockets” and “streams” of highly-concentrated radiation. – Read the rest of this entry »

(RadioAustralia) – Back in May we reported radioactive material being carried by tuna from near Japan’s crippled Fukushima power plant, all the way across the Pacific to the US.

One of the scientists doing that research was Stanford University’s Dan Madigan.

Now he wants to know what other species are carrying radioactive material across the Pacific. Audio Here

See Also: (JapanDailyPress) – Japan’s largest anti-nuclear rally in Tokyo draws over 170,000 – Read More Here

(FreedomWV) – Sorry for the delay in uploading this. It had been a stressful weekend for me. This protest was mostly confined to the streets as Tokyo Metro police keep in line with their stance against protesters flow over in the streets. None the less, large turn out for this protest as the people of Japan continue to demand an end to all nuclear power operation in Japan. Includes rare footage of protesters singing “We Shall Overcome” Read the rest of this entry »

(HigginsBlog) – New documents show Japan lied about Fukushima nuclear fallout forecasts showing high levels of radiation hitting populated areas and withheld them to avoid panic. Read the rest of this entry »

(FukushimaDiary) – Using historical weather patterns, NOAA’s Earth System Research Laboratory developed this model of how debris will circulate across the Pacific Ocean. Read the rest of this entry »

(DailyMotion) – Video: Japanese Nuclear Expert: ‘When I try to figure out the true magnitude of damage, I am overwhelmed’ — Almost all of Fukushima Prefecture would be abandoned if gov’t regulations were applied – View More Here

(DailyMotion) – Video: ‘Even if the Japanese gov’t goes into bankruptcy, it still won’t be enough to compensate all the damages that will be produced’ from Fukushima Daiichi – Read More Here

(Blogs.WSJ) – Former head of Japan’s #1 newspaper worked with CIA to promote nuclear power

Tetsuo Arima, a researcher at Waseda University in Tokyo, told JRT he discovered in the U.S. National Archives a trove of declassified CIA files that showed how one man, Matsutaro Shoriki, was instrumental in jumpstarting Japan’s nascent nuclear industry.

Mr. Shoriki was many things: a Class A war criminal, the head of the Yomiuri Shimbun (Japan’s biggest-selling and most influential newspaper) and the founder of both the country’s first commercial broadcaster and the Tokyo Giants baseball team. Less well known, according to Mr. Arima, was that the media mogul worked with the CIA to promote nuclear power. Read More Here

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(CNN) – Japanese say gov’t “will simply flat out lie” about Fukushima — Adviser to Prime Minister Kan: People can not trust gov’t

If you talk to people here they’ll tell you… the government will withhold information or the government will simply flat out lie. Read the rest of this entry »

(C-Span) – The Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Subcommittee on Oceans, Atmosphere, Fisheries, and Coast Guard held a hearing on ocean debris from the 2011 Japanese tsunami and the growing problem of ocean debris from all sources.

Debris that entered the ocean after the tsunami in Japan is reaching U.S. coastlines more quickly than the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) predicted and the Japanese government estimates about 5 million tons of debris was swept into the ocean, with about 1.5 million tons still afloat. Read the rest of this entry »

(Rense) – Where are they going to go? And how did THEY know? China’s Empty Cities… Read the rest of this entry »

(EUTimes) – Russia Stunned After Japanese Plan to Evacuate 40 Million Revealed – Read More Here

(ENENews) – Senate Leader: NRC Commissioner ‘Lied To Congress’ — Could bring Senate to grinding halt – Read More Here

(ENENews) – Video: Fukushima Report Introduced by Top Official Hosono: “Other reactors are all in considerably severe condition” — 14 total; Dai-ni, Onagawa, Tokai — “Extreme situations, though not much has been broadcast” – View Here

RELATED – (Fox) – Australia – ‘Vomiting road workers hospitalized after exposing mysterious nuclear waste’ – Read More Here

RELATED – (NewScientist) – Sperm damage in birds near Chernobyl — UK professor claims not from meltdown because it wasn’t enough to explain amount of harm observed – Read More Here

(ENENews) – Video: Asahi TV – “Unbelievable” — If Unit 4 pool gets a crack from quake and leaks, it would be end for Tokyo -Expert — Doesn’t have to be large tremor, already shaken many times (VIDEO)

Most discussion of the No. 4 spent fuel pool has focused on an earthquake causing the pool to collapse. This video is different because it reveals:

1. A crack, rather than the collapse of the pool itself, can be the end of Tokyo
2. The quake that could put a crack in the pool and be the end of Tokyo does not have to be a large one
3. The sense of shock when people in Japan are made aware of this information for the first time

(MSNBC) – Fukushima radiation “much higher than expected” says biologist — Negative effects to happen quicker than at Chernobyl… and be worse

• [At Fukushima] “our expectation was that it would take many years and many generations of exposure for the cumulative effects” to show as they have in Chernobyl
• “However, once we started our field work we realized that contamination levels were much higher than expected, even in July when we did our surveys and it is likely that doses to these birds were very high in March and April when many of the birds were arriving to the area to initiate breeding”

(FukushimaDiary) – Video: Report – Asahi TV show airs photos of mutated plants in Tokyo — Same program to feature dire situation at No. 4 fuel pool — Asked audience to send in more examples (PHOTO)

[...] A news reporter showed this mutated dandelion in the TV show “Morning bird” of TV asahi. 2 flowers from one huge stem. 20 of them are growing close to each other in Tokyo. Maybe the dandelions were stressed. The TV show is asking for more pictures of mutated plants. [...]

SOURCE: Asahi TV’s ‘Morning Bird’

See also: Asahi TV: “Unbelievable” — If Unit 4 pool gets a crack from quake and leaks, it would be end for Tokyo -Expert — Doesn’t have to be large tremor, already shaken many times (VIDEO)

SOURCE: Asahi TV’s ‘Morning Bird’

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(Youtube) – Former Fukushima Daiichi Reactor Operator – We falsified data and rewrote daily operative reports

Kimura used to operate the reactors and maintained the fuel rods at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant. He confessed that TEPCO has deceived the government, which regulates the nuclear power plants, in a number of ways.

KIMURA: As a part of operational management of the nuclear power plant, we used to rewrite the daily operative reports. We used to access the computer to falsify the data when things weren’t going our way Read the rest of this entry »

(RussiaToday) – The dangerous radioactive wave from the Fukushima nuclear meltdown in Japan will hit the US West Coast and have deadly consequences for the entire U.S. food supply.

Researchers say the radioactive ‘wave’ from Japan will hit the US West Coast within the year and when it does it will have a deadly consequences for marine life and the entire U.S. food supply.

For more:

Tons Of Radioactive Fukushima Water Spills Into Pacific Ocean
http://blog.alexanderhiggins.com/2012/04/05/tons-radioactive-fukushima-water-…

Ocean Radiation Plume Hits Hawaii From Fukushima Nuclear Meltdown
http://blog.alexanderhiggins.com//2012/03/16/radiation-plume-hits-hawaii-fuku…

It’s coming and the radiation is millions of times higher than normal.

Delivered via The Daily Sheeple [Hat tip Before It's News]

[*Ed: This page was updated on 4/5/12 to reflect corrected calculations]

(AkiomaMatsumura) – Japan’s former Ambassador to Switzerland, Mr. Mitsuhei Murata, was invited to speak at the Public Hearing of the Budgetary Committee of the House of Councilors on March 22, 2012, on the Fukushima nuclear power plants accident. Before the Committee, Ambassador Murata strongly stated that if the crippled building of reactor unit 4—with 1,535 fuel rods in the spent fuel pool 100 feet (30 meters) above the ground—collapses, not only will it cause a shutdown of all six reactors but will also affect the common spent fuel pool containing 6,375 fuel rods, located some 50 meters from reactor 4. Read the rest of this entry »

(CorbettReport) – James Corbett of corbettreport.com reports live from the rally against nuclear power in Osaka, Japan in commemoration of the first anniversary of the start of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear crisis. For more information on Fukushima and nuclear power in Japan, please visit FukushimaUpdate.com Read the rest of this entry »

(AFP) – Most of the radioactive fallout from the disaster at the Fukushima nuclear plant dropped into the ocean and began circling the planet, Japanese researchers say.

Up to 80 per cent of the caesium released by the Fukushima Daiichi power plant after the March 11 disaster landed in the Pacific and made its way into other oceans around the world, scientists at the Meteorological Research Institute said. Read the rest of this entry »

(RussiaToday) – This time Max Keiser and co-host, Stacy Herbert, look at the scandals of the ‘living’ dead centenarians collecting pensions in Japan and of Iceland’s ex-premier defending his innocence against charges of ‘economic recklessness.’ In the second half of the show, Max goes to Detroit to talk global deflationary collapse with Nicole Foss of Automatic Earth. Read the rest of this entry »

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(SFChronicle) – San Francisco will host sailors from three different navies this weekend, including a port call by a U.S. cruiser, a Japanese training squadron and a rare visit by a Russian guided missile cruiser.

All the ships – except the cruiser USS Bunker Hill – will be open for public tours next week.

The first vessels to arrive will be three ships from the Japanese Maritime Self Defense Force, as the Japanese navy is called. The three, led by the training vessel Kashima, are expected at the Golden Gate Bridge around 12:30 p.m. today. They will anchor in the bay and tie up Monday at Pier 27 on the Embarcadero. A welcome ceremony, open to the public, will be held Monday at 9:30 a.m.

The Japanese ships will be open to the public that day from 9 to 11 a.m. and from 2 to 4 p.m. Read entire article

(TimesOnline) – A SUNDAY TIMES investigation has exposed Japan for bribing small nations with cash and prostitutes to gain their support for the mass slaughter of whales.

The undercover investigation found officials from six countries were willing to consider selling their votes on the International Whaling Commission (IWC).

The revelations come as Japan seeks to break the 24-year moratorium on commercial whaling. An IWC meeting that will decide the fate of thousands of whales, including endangered species, begins this month in Morocco. Read More Here

(BBC) – Japan PM Naoto Kan warns of ‘collapse’ under debt pile

Japan is at “risk of collapse” under its huge debt mountain, the country’s new prime minister has said. Read More Here

(NAlert) – ObamaCare’s 150 New Government Agencies – Read More Here

(DowJones) – 2nd UPDATE: Milan Judge Adjourns Derivatives Trial To June 23

A Milan judge adjourned Wednesday a landmark derivatives trial against four international banks accused of fraudulently selling derivatives on a bond by two weeks to June 23.

Judge Oscar Magi, who recently took over the proceedings, also ruled that several parties including dozens of consumer … Read More Here

(NYTimes) – Uncertainty Restores Glitter to an Old Refuge, Gold

It is the resurgent passion of the doomsday crowd, a bet that everything will go wrong. No matter what has you worried, they say, the answer is gold. Read More Here

(CNNMoney) – Vermont to seniors: Return those $250 checks

The federal government is mailing $250 Medicare rebate checks this week, but Vermont is asking its seniors to send the money back to the state. Read More Here

(June 11) – Video: Bob Chapman’s Friday 6/11/2010 Economic Report on Alex Jones Tv

Bob Chapman of The International Forecaster checks in with his regular Friday economic news update. Alex covers the news and takes your calls. Read the rest of this entry »

(Rense) – The Detailed History Of An Infamous Era – Read More Here

(WSJ) – U.S. Is Riskier Than Euro Zone; So Says CDS Market

Something troubling has occurred in the market for default protection on the debt of the world’s biggest borrower. Read More Here

(WSJ) – Treasurys Sink After Poor Sale

Treasury prices fell hard after a poor five-year auction that escalated concerns about the government’s ability to sell its massive amounts of debt. Read More Here

(KCTV5) – Folger’s To Close KC Coffee Plant

The J.M. Smucker Company announced Wednesday it will close its Kansas City Folger’s Coffee plant in the summer of 2012. Read More Here

(RussiaToday) – Video: Lehman Brothers: Warehouse for junk loans – View Video Here

(TheSun) – CHANCELLOR Alistair Darling has delivered his last crucial budget — and plunged the country further into debt. – Read More Here

(BusinessInsider) – JP Morgan Paid $1.9 Billion For Washington Mutual And Now It Wants A $1.4 Billion Tax Refund

JPMorgan Chase is negotiating with the FDIC for a tax refund related to its acquisition of Washington Mutual that could amount to $1.4 billion, The Wall Street Journal is reporting this morning Read More Here

(DailyTelegraph) – Gordon Brown told to explain why he sold Britain’s gold reserves

Gordon Brown has been ordered to release information before the general election about his controversial decision to sell Britain’s gold reserves. Read More Here

(Bloomberg) – Poll Reveals Americans Hate Wall Street

Americans are leery about creating a new federal agency to make consumer-protection rules for mortgages and credit cards and would prefer to enhance the existing powers of banking regulators. Read More Here

(Bloomberg) – States Sue Over Overhaul That Will Bust State Budgets

President Barack Obama faces a fight over the health-care overhaul from states that sued today because the legislation’s expansion of Medicaid imposes a fiscal strain on their cash-strapped budgets. Read More Here

(WallStreetJournal) – Economic Stimulus Bill May Give J.P. Morgan a Tax Refund of $1.4 Billion

J.P. Morgan Chase & Co. is nearing a deal that would allow it to benefit from a tax refund of as much as $1.4 billion, becoming the latest company to tap a little-noticed plank in an economic stimulus bill. Read More Here

(GlobalResearch) – Social Inequality in America: Widening Income Disparities

The “aristocracy of our moneyed incorporations” has never conceded a thing, not even to suppress a revolt. This “opulent minority” does not “give” what it does not intend to begin to claw back with its cold, non-living corporate “hand” before the ink is dry on the signatures on treaties, the Fourteenth Amendment, even the New Deal, perhaps the greatest bowl of gruel ever cooked up by an oligarchy. Read More Here

(EpochTimes) – Most Japanese Airports in Debt, Face Closure

The majority of Japanese airports are facing serious financial problems and may be forced to close unless they attract more passengers, according to a Japanese Ministry of Transport survey, reports the Japan Times. Read More Here

(FinancialArmageddon) – Is the stock market being manipulated?

Larry Doyle, a long-time Wall Street veteran and publisher of the Sense on Cents blog, hosts a Sunday night show, “No Quarter Radio’s Sense on Cents with Larry Doyle,” on Blog Talk Radio. In this week’s edition, which features an interview with Phil Davis of Phil’s Stock World, Larry raises a question that a few of us, who are amazed at and unsettled by the willingness of investors to throw caution to the wind and repeat the mistakes of the past (see “Back Buying the Same Kind of Crap” for one example), have occasionally wondered about ourselves: Read More Here

(MyBudget360) – How the Middle Class Slowly Evaporated in the Last 40 Years

Loss of Manufacturing, Bank Deregulation, Hyper Consumption, and Short-term Profit Seeking from Wall Street Read More Here

(DailyBell) – Global Economy Spins Out of Control? – Read More Here

(Spiegel) – German Shipping Faces Wave of Financing Problems

As recently as 2008, container ships were transporting record amounts of products across the world’s oceans. Now, many German shipping companies are struggling to pay for the vessels they ordered during the boom. Their banks could be in trouble, too. Read More Here

(CSPAN) – Video: Ron Paul Vs Tiny Tim Geithner-You Got Us In A Bigger Mess – View Video Here

(RussiaToday) – According to the chief of Japans Democratic Party who says that the 9/11 hijackers are alive and that 9/11 was a complete hoax. Dr. David Ray Griffin is a professor and author who wrote The New Pearl Harbor Revisited and he says that he agrees; the World Trade Center was a hoax. Read the rest of this entry »

(ForeignPolicyJournal) – An editorial in the Washington Post yesterday slammed Japanese member of parliament Yukihisa Fujita because he “seems to think that America’s rendering of the events of Sept. 11, 2001, is a gigantic hoax.” His “ideas” about the terrorist attacks “are too bizarre, half-baked and intellectually bogus to merit serious discussion.” Read the rest of this entry »

(WashingtonPost) – YUKIHISA FUJITA is an influential member of the ruling Democratic Party of Japan. As chief of the DPJ’s international department and head of the Research Committee on Foreign Affairs in the upper house of Japan’s parliament, to which he was elected in 2007, he is a Brahmin in the foreign policy establishment of Washington’s most important East Asian ally. He also seems to think that America’s rendering of the events of Sept. 11, 2001, is a gigantic hoax. Read the rest of this entry »

(Reuters) – Japan’s ballooning public debt is raising concerns in debt markets as the largely untested government of Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama tries to balance the need for economic stimulus with a need for fiscal prudence. Read More Here

Economic historian Peter Bernholz has identified that inflation starts to take on hyperinflationary characteristics some time after the deficits of a country as a share of government expenditure rise above a third and stay there for several years. Read the rest of this entry »

No-one wants to talk about Japan these days.  The conventional wisdom is that the bloom went off Japan’s economic rose around 1990 and that the utter superiority of neoliberal capitalism was vindicated by the strong performance of the American economy during the 1990s.  Furthermore, everyone is now convinced that China – whose economy is 1/8 the size of Japan’s – is the rising economic power and therefore the appropriate object of attention.
But Japan is, despite everything, still one of the master keys to understanding the future of the world economy, because Japan is the clearest case study of why neoliberalism is false.  Simply put, Japan has done almost everything wrong by neoliberal standards and yet is indisputably the second-richest nation in the world. Read the rest of this entry »

(PressTV) – Japan Airlines Corp. (JAL) is expected to slash more than 15,000 jobs, a third of its work force, in three years to save the troubled company from total collapse. Read the rest of this entry »

(PakAlert) – Americans Must Ask; Who is Breeding Terrorism?
The above-captioned article was written by John Pilger in the daily The Yumiuri Shimbun, of Japan, dated 30th August, 1998. He says “In recent years Muslims have been the greatest sufferers from state terrorism.” The excerpts of his above-mentioned article are as below. Read the rest of this entry »

(JapanTimes) – Minamata disease was named after a fishing port on the island of Kyushu where it was discovered in 1956. Chisso Corp. had been dumping methyl mercury directly into the bay since before World War II, but sharp increases in production in the early 1950s increased the flow of contaminating effluent. People and animals that ingested contaminated fish and shellfish suffered varying degrees of neurological damage. The polluting was not stopped until 1968 because the company, with the government’s complicity, denied and tried to cover up its role in creating one of Japan’s worst environmental disasters, one that became symbolic of the costs of relentless pursuit of economic growth. Read the rest of this entry »

(Telegraph) – Japan is set to commission the largest destroyer to join its fleet in response to a Chinese military buildup. Read the rest of this entry »

(Telegraph) – Public debt has pushed the country beyond the point of no return, writes Ambrose Evans-Pritchard. Read the rest of this entry »

The epic effort to alert the people of the world about the truth of the destruction of the threeWorld Trade Center skyscrapers on September 11, 2001, will extend its global reach as Richard Gage, AIA, boards a jet in San Francisco and flies west on a 17-hour flight to Sydney on November 8. Read the rest of this entry »

Copenhagen is about to become the successor to Kyoto as the synonym for the U.N.’s plan to control climate change. The 15th meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change will meet in Copenhagen December 7-18. Until this meeting ends, expect to hear a growing number of climate-related horror stories, presented by a wide array of so-called environmentalists, at a rising decibel level that’s sure to drive the sane quite mad. Read the rest of this entry »

A CNN poll states the obvious — a majority of American believe the occupation of Afghanistan is turning into another Vietnam. “Fifty-two percent of people questioned in a CNN/Opinion Research Corporation survey released Monday say the eight year long conflict has turned into a situation like the U.S. faced in the Vietnam War, with 46 percent disagreeing,” CNN reports. Read the rest of this entry »