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Showing posts with label Japan. Show all posts

Send U.S. spy plane to Japan

Tokyo: The United States military aircraft will fly an unmanned spy on a nuclear power Fukushima, Japan. U.S. wants to get closer to the reactor vision problems.

"The images taken by spy planes that fly high can provide useful clues about what is going on inside the reactor building, about a high-level radiation has been detected," said a government source was quoted by Japanese news agency, Thursday (17 / 3).

The plane had been equipped with infrared sensors.

The mission is planned that happens when the Japanese government seems unable to overcome the crisis after the nuclear power plant on the waterfront was hit by a quake measuring 9.0 on the Richter Scale and the tsunami on Friday.

The U.S. military has contributed logistical assistance transportation, search and rescue immediately after disaster struck the Pacific coast in northeastern Tokyo.

"In Washington, on Wednesday, a Pentagon official said U.S. forces in Japan is in principle not allowed within a radius of 90 kilometers (60 miles) from the plant," Kyodo said.

WikiLeaks: Japan Hiding Nuclear Issues

LONDON - leaked diplomatic wire U.S. Embassy in Tokyo was mention of the country's nuclear crisis. In addition there are already predicting that need to be improved safety standards since 2008, similar wires also said the Japanese government cover-cover nuclear accidents.

This was conveyed by Taro Kono, Japan's cabinet member lower house of parliament in October 2008. Kono convey this to the U.S. diplomat. He accused the Japanese government keeping secrets related to nuclear incidents at that time.

Kono also accused the government of Japan paid no other alternative energy in Japan that could be used instead of nuclear. Such as wind power.

"Kono accused the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry of Japan's nuclear accident cover-cover and hide the true cost of a nuclear reactor. There is a hidden nuclear issue," the report said the diplomat.

"Kono said the Japanese in 2008 had increased seismic activity. The high activity of an earthquake three years ago it was signalize about Japanese nuclear reactor safety.

Prime Minister of Japan at this time, Naoko Kan, when it still served as minister of technology and science.

Japan Earthquake Predicted Previous Apparently Already

Japan Earthquake Predicted Previous Apparently AlreadyTOKYO - An earthquake that ravage Japan, last Friday, it had predicted earlier. However, researchers do not know if the strength of the quake was very powerful.

Sadayuki Kitagawa, researchers at the Seismic Research division said that they had actually predict earthquakes will occur around the coast of Fukushima and Ibaraki.

What they do not know is the size of the power of the quake and tsunami will occur. "We were already predicting there will be an earthquake with a strength of 8 or smaller, but not this big," he said.

He added that the Friday quake strength will make a series of aftershocks are expected to last for a while. Kitagawa said, it resembles a massive earthquake, the earthquake in Aceh, 2004, which also caused huge Indian Ocean tsunami.

Meanwhile, Bloomberg News reported, Italy geological institute claims Japanese earthquake shifts the axis of the earth about 10 cm.

There Online Suicide in Japan



Suicide while recording and distributing it on the internet the more worrying in Japan. Now there are recent cases that make the Japanese government and society more worried. Suicide 'online'.

Police found the body of a 24-year-old man, whose name was withheld, in her apartment in the city of Sendai, northern Japan on Tuesday (9 / 11) then. Police went to his apartment after a number of residents make a report.

As reported by the daily Yomiuri Shimbun on Thursday (11/11), several neighbors called and said that he was desperate to try to hang himself and eventually died.

"At 3:45 o'clock morning he tried to hang himself. But the effort failed because her apartment ceiling collapsed and he fell," said a policeman.

There wits' end, the man then headed to another part of her apartment. He hung the rope, climbed onto the bench and then linking his neck in the rope. And he also lost his life.

All the horrible scene recorded with the perpetrators clearly in the camera. Actors that are deliberately put his camera in a recorded condition and connected to the Internet network. He did it all by himself.

Videos male suicide can be seen in 'live' on site UStream. However, the site manager to remove the recording suicide after receiving protests from some users.

On the YouTube site also had circulated the tape. But deleted shortly after uploaded.

Sankei Shimbun newspaper reports that he was no longer working since August 2010 due to be fired from work in a bank. The man was then experiencing economic difficulties and had expressed his intention to commit suicide through a community on UStream site.