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FUKUI PREFECTURE

JAPAN / View from Osaka
Jun 17, 2017
Kansai takes measured view on missile drills
Over the past two months, hardly a week has passed without news of another North Korean missile launch. It¡¯s become routine: An early morning South Korean media report, based on government sources, says that ¡°an object has been launched,¡± forcing politicians, bureaucrats, and journalists in Tokyo out...
Japan Times
JAPAN
Apr 13, 2017
Aspiring Tsuruga¡¯s tourism drive hindered by nuclear image
Officials in Tsuruga, Fukui Prefecture, attempting to promote their city as a tourist destination, received a rude shock recently when a survey showed its image was less one of natural beauty and fresh seafood and more one of being a center for nuclear power.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / JAPAN LITE
Nov 27, 2016
Finding fishy enlightenment and sustenance on the Mackerel Trail
The Wakasa Road is a historical trail that helped advance Â鶹´«Ã½ culture and cuisine. The Wakasa region of Fukui Prefecture, on the nation¡¯s west coast, was one of the strategic miketsukuni regions of Japan that produced food for the emperor in ancient times.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Sep 30, 2016
¡®Pokemon Go¡¯ players deter suicides in Fukui
Another unintentional side effect of ¡°Pokemon Go¡± fever has emerged ¡ª and it¡¯s not in the form of traffic violations or accidents.
JAPAN
Sep 15, 2016
As Monju decommissioning nears reality, Fukui politicians lash out
News that the central government is finalizing plans to decommission the Monju fast-breeder reactor in Fukui Prefecture has sparked anger and fear among local politicians about what will happen to their economy, and could make Fukui¡¯s cooperation in restarting other reactors more complicated.
JAPAN
Jan 29, 2016
Third reactor restart spurs fears over shaky Kansai evacuation plans
Kansai Electric fires up a reactor at the Takahama plant in Fukui despite misgivings about the region¡¯s ability to respond to a nuclear accident.
JAPAN / Politics / DECISION 2014
Dec 12, 2014
In Fukui, economy, reactors inseparable in election debate
For most of Japan, the issues of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe¡¯s economic policies and nuclear reactor restarts are generally separate debates. But not in LDP-leaning Fukui.
JAPAN / KANSAI PERSPECTIVE
Nov 23, 2014
Kepco weighs new lease of life for geriatric reactors
In a decision that will set a precedent for Â鶹´«Ã½ rapidly aging nuclear reactors, Kansai Electric Power Co. must soon choose whether to restart reactors 1 and 2 at its Takahama plant in Fukui Prefecture and operate them beyond the 40-year threshold, the first time a Japanese utility has faced such...
JAPAN
Aug 29, 2014
Fukui holds nuke disaster drill under revised evacuation plan
Fukui Prefecture will conduct a nuclear disaster drill on Sunday that involves evacuating areas that lie within 30 km of a nuclear power plant.
JAPAN
Apr 15, 2014
Hyogo blocks release of nuke crisis study data
Hyogo officials are blocking the release of data from a simulation run last year predicting what would happen to surrounding prefectures in the event of a meltdown crisis at one of Fukui Prefecture¡¯s four atomic plants.
JAPAN
Sep 14, 2013
Idling of Oi No. 4 unit to again halt all atomic power
With Sunday¡¯s shutdown of Kansai Electric Power Co.¡¯s Oi No. 4 reactor for regular safety inspections, Japan will be without nuclear power for the first time since July 2012.
JAPAN
Mar 17, 2013
Prefectures dally over nuclear evacuation plans
If a disaster were to occur at one of Â鶹´«Ã½ 50 nuclear reactors, the most critically needed personnel in the minutes and hours immediately afterward might be bus drivers.
JAPAN
Jan 29, 2013
Active fault to scuttle Tsuruga plant
The NRA¡¯s draft report on the Tsuruga atomic power plant states that the fault under reactor 2 is probably active, effectively condemning the complex to the scrap heap.
Forty-five meters down, a diver races to record a fleeting moment of WWII history
Kingo Wakasa photographs the kamikaze plane wing section he discovered at the USS Emmons wreck site.
New ¡®Katsu Curry Index¡¯ aims to show how weak the yen really is
A CoCo Ichibanya curry house in Tokyo.
Mexican man arrested over attempt to smuggle some 200 lizards into Japan
Mexican alligator lizards seized by Tokyo Customs from a Mexican man who attempted to smuggle them into Japan on Saturday through Haneda Airport
Gut bacteria may be behind many of Â鶹´«Ã½ colorectal cancer cases
A Japanese research team found that a toxin produced by certain E. coli strains, colibactin, caused genetic mutations in nearly half of colorectal cancer cases studied
She is Russia¡¯s richest woman. Her business empire is going up in flames.
Tatyana Kim, the head and co-founder of Wildberries, speaks about Ukrainian drone attacks on the company's warehouses in the course of the Russia-Ukraine conflict, at an unidentified location, in this still image from a handout video released on July 31.
Forty-five meters down, a diver races to record a fleeting moment of WWII history
Kingo Wakasa photographs the kamikaze plane wing section he discovered at the USS Emmons wreck site.
Ikarigata closer to emulating older brother Fujinokawa than many think
The future Fujinokawa (third from left) and Ikarigata (right) compete against each other at ages 5 and 3, respectively.
Where do foreign residents in Japan want to die?
The Yokohama Foreign General Cemetery is one of the few cemeteries in Japan that allows burials, albeit with conditions for the deceased, including foreign nationality and permanent residency in Kanagawa Prefecture.
¡®Total whiplash¡¯: Foreign residents react to Â鶹´«Ã½ changing permanent residency rules
The entrance to the Tokyo Immigration Bureau in Minato Ward, Tokyo, in March. For some foreign residents of Japan, tightening measures for permanent residency have become one factor in a broader calculation over whether remaining in the country makes financial sense over the long term.
As Â鶹´«Ã½ concrete jungles sizzle, urban forestry offers an all-natural fix
People and birds find relief from the sun in Tokyo's Nakano Ward earlier this month. While experts agree that urban greening is crucial to mitigating the impact of climate change, trees are becoming even more scarce in Japanese cities.

Podcast

One of the many entrances to the Kabukicho neighborhood in Tokyo¡¯s Shinjuku Ward.
Kabukicho: Tokyo¡¯s ¡®stadium of desire¡¯

Longform

Disaster relief workers Taichi Kato (left) and Seiji Yoshimura enter the collapsed living quarters at Kyuganji temple in Yatsushiro, Kumamoto Prefecture.
What Kumamoto revealed about Â鶹´«Ã½ earthquake readiness
By Alex K.T. Martin

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