Former lawmaker Yoshitami Kameoka pleaded not guilty Friday over his alleged distribution of cash to voters just before the official campaign period for the October 2024 House of Representatives election. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/10/03/japan/politics/lawmaker-kameoka-cash-distribution/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #politics #yoshitamikameoka #corruption #lowerhouse #japanesecourts #fukushima
A Ukrainian YouTuber with more than 6.5 million subscribers has been arrested in Japan after livestreaming himself trespassing in a house in the Fukushima nuclear exclusion zone, police and media said Friday. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/09/27/japan/crime-legal/youtuber-arrested-fukushima-livestream/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #crimelegal #fukushima #japanesepolice #internet #youtube
His memories are hazy, but for 95-year-old Hidetada Yoshida, the decadeslong pain in his right arm serves as a reminder of his experience mining for ores including uranium during the closing days of World War II. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/09/22/japan/95-year-old-speaks-of-wartime-uranium-mining-fukushima/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #wwii #fukushima #nuclearweapons #atomicbombings #mining
The Taiwanese government says it has begun a 60-day public comment period on lifting import restrictions on Japanese food imposed after the 2011 triple meltdown at the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear plant. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/09/02/japan/taiwan-lift-import-restrictions/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #taiwan #food #311 #fukushima #tepco
Police in Fukushima Prefecture arrested a 23-year-old pachinko parlor employee over a robbery case in which the employee allegedly opened the parlor's safe while pretending to be threatened to do so. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/08/20/japan/crime-legal/pachinko-parlor-worker-robbery/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #crimelegal #japanesepolice #robbery #fukushima #pachinko
Two men have been arrested on suspicion of robbing a pachinko parlor of around ¥28 million ($190,000) in Fukushima Prefecture on Tuesday, local police said. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/08/14/japan/crime-legal/pachinko-fukushima-robbery-arrest/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #crimelegal #pachinko #japanesepolice #fukushima
Jess Mahler
boosted
Rice fields and Totoro forest in Iwaki, Japan.
A short walk from the inlaw's place. It's always so scenic I have a hard time choosing photos, but somehow I don't think I've posted this view on fedi before. I guess my older photos pre-date the founding of sunny.garden.
Rice fields and Totoro forest in Iwaki, Japan.
A short walk from the inlaw's place. It's always so scenic I have a hard time choosing photos, but somehow I don't think I've posted this view on fedi before. I guess my older photos pre-date the founding of sunny.garden.
Michi Saito, 98, of Fukushima, recalls how her brother was killed by a dummy atomic bomb that U.S. forces used as training for the nuclear attacks on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/08/11/japan/fukushima-1945-mock-atomic-bombing/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #wwii #atomicbombings #fukushima
De Hiroshima à Fukushima, et retour
Les personnes évacuées de #Fukushima partagent avec les survivants de la bombe atomique un parcours de vie marqué du sceau de l’atome qui les a stigmatisés. Luttant contre l’énergie #nucléaire, elles voient avec crainte revenir la recherche militaro-industrielle.
Par Johann Fleuri › https://www.mediapart.fr/journal/international/070825/de-hiroshima-fukushima-et-retour?at_medium=rs-cm&at_campaign=mastodon&at_account=mediapart
People in Fukushima Prefecture and other parts of Japan are working to pass down the stories of "mock atomic bombs" the United States dropped in the country during World War II, which resulted in over 400 deaths. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/08/07/japan/wwii-us-mock-atomic-bombings-on-japan/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #atomicbombings #hiroshima #nagasaki #fukushima #wwii
Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings said Sunday that it has completed the second round of its fiscal 2025 release of treated water into the ocean from the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/08/03/japan/tepco-2nd-round-treated-water-release/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #tepco #fukushimano1 #radioactivewater #nuclearenergy #fukushima
The Tokyo District Court ordered Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings on Wednesday to pay about ¥100 million ($675,000) in damages over the 2011 accident at its Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/07/30/japan/crime-legal/tepco-ordered-to-pay-damages-nuclear-disaster/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #crimelegal #fukushimano1 #311 #earthquakes #tsunami #futaba #fukushima #japanesecourts
Sebastian Lasse
boosted
Aufgrund einer #Tsunami |-warnung hat der Betreiber der japanischen #AKW#Fukushima Daiichi und Daini Vorsichtsmaßnahmen an den #KKW getroffen.
Grund für die Warnung ist ein #Erdbeben der Magnitude 8.8, das vor der Küste der russischen Halbinsel #Kamtschatka registriert wurde. Siehe auch Meldung der USGS: https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/us6000qw60/executive
Aufgrund einer #Tsunami |-warnung hat der Betreiber der japanischen #AKW#Fukushima Daiichi und Daini Vorsichtsmaßnahmen an den #KKW getroffen.
Grund für die Warnung ist ein #Erdbeben der Magnitude 8.8, das vor der Küste der russischen Halbinsel #Kamtschatka registriert wurde. Siehe auch Meldung der USGS: https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/us6000qw60/executive
Full-scale removal of nuclear fuel debris from the No. 3 reactor of Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings' crippled Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant will not start before fiscal 2037, officials said Tuesday. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/07/30/japan/fukushima-nuclear-plant-debris-removal/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #fukushimano1 #nuclearenergy #fukushima #311
Dozens of bags of mildly radioactive soil collected from near the stricken Fukushima nuclear plant were delivered Saturday to Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba's office, in an effort to show it is safe for reuse. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/07/19/japan/ishiba-office-fukushima-soil-reuse/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #fukushima #shigeruishiba
Lake Inawashiro in Fukushima Prefecture has been newly designated as an internationally important wetland under the Ramsar Convention, marking the 54th wetland in the country to be registered. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/07/16/japan/lake-inawashiro-ramsar-convention/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #fukushima #environment #environmentministry #wetlands
Fukushima Prefecture is set to launch a public-private partnership initiative to mitigate the outflow of young people that has been a major factor behind population decline and the falling birth rate. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/07/14/japan/fukushima-gender-gap-population-decline/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #fukushima #population #women039sissues #rurallife #hyogo
Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings suggested Monday that it plans to transfer spent nuclear fuel from its Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant to an interim storage facility in Mutsu, Aomori Prefecture. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/07/08/japan/tepco-move-mutsu/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #tepco #aomori #mutsu #fukushima #nuclearenergy