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Oct 7th This Travel Alert updates the Travel Alert for Japan dated July 19, 2011, to note modifications to U.S. government recommendations for U.S. citizens traveling to or residing in the area around the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant. This Travel Alert expires on Jan. 13, 2012. Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant Agencies of the U.S. g ...
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By ERIC TALMADGE Associated Press, Aug 31, 5:21 AM EDT TOMIOKA, Japan (AP) -- Vines creep across Tomioka's empty streets, its prim gardens overgrown with waist-high weeds and meadow flowers. Dead cows rot where they were left to starve in their pens. Chicken coops writhe with maggots, a sickening stench hanging in the air. This once-thriving community of 1 ...
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By Travis J. Tritten Stars and Stripes, August 22, 2011 CAMP FOSTER, Okinawa — Dangerously high radiation could prompt the Japanese government to ban residents from returning to towns around the damaged Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant for several decades, the Yomiuri newspaper reported Monday. Radiation at three towns within the restricted 12-mile r ...
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By ERIC TALMADGE and MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press, Aug 9, 10:51 AM EDT NAMIE, Japan (AP) -- Japan's system to forecast radiation threats was working from the moment its nuclear crisis began. As officials planned a venting operation certain to release radioactivity into the air, the system predicted Karino Elementary School would be directly in the path o ...
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By MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press, Aug 9, 8:35 AM EDT TOKYO (AP) -- Japan's government has decided to lift evacuation advisories in some areas more than 12 miles (20 kilometers) from the damaged Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear plant, opening the way for tens of thousands of people to return home, officials said Tuesday. The advisories warned residents to be pr ...
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Aug 8, 8:14 AM EDT TOKYO (AP) -- U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said Japan promised Monday to share invaluable lessons of disaster management and nuclear safety that it learned from March's disasters. "The Japanese government will share invaluable experiences learned from this tragedy with the international community, particularly in area of disas ...
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By Travis J. Tritten, Stars and Stripes, August 2, 2011 CAMP FOSTER, Okinawa — The Navy is having difficulty convincing sailors that it is safe to come to Japan and fill job openings on ships homeported at Yokosuka Naval Base following a massive earthquake and nuclear disaster earlier this year, officials say. Commanders are growing frustrated as some key ...
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By ERIC TALMADGE Associated Press, Jul 24, 5:54 AM EDT OKUMA, Japan (AP) -- Under tight government supervision, dozens of villagers from a town where the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear plant is located ventured deep into an irradiated no-man's land Sunday to hold a belated memorial for friends and relatives killed by Japan's earthquake and tsunami. They found ...
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