JapanJapanese welcome PM’s decision to close nuclear plantSeveral thousand Japanese anti-nuclear protesters marched in the rain on Saturday, welcoming a call from the prime minister to shut down a plant in central Japan and urging him to close more to avoid another nuclear crisis.  Japan to spend first $50 billion for post-quake reconstructionPrime Minister Kan, who has been accused by opposition politicians, his own party and quake survivors of failing to take command of the response to the triple disaster, has said the need to rebuild is an opportunity for national “rebirth.” Japanese PM signals ‘maximum alert’ at nuclear plantPlutonium has been detected in soil at the facility and highly radioactive water has leaked from a reactor building. Nuclear plant downplayed tsunami riskIn planning their defense against a killer tsunami, the people running Japan’s now-hobbled nuclear power plant dismissed important scientific evidence and all but disregarded 3,000 years of geological history. Japan: Fight to avert Fukushima plant disaster goes onPrime minister urges vigilance after safety officials said break in nuclear reactor may have caused big radiation leak Japan’s apocalyptic glossaryJapan is facing an unimaginable three-pronged calamity that combines the horrors of an earthquake, a tsunami, and now a nuclear crisis. While disastrous, the language used by public authorities to describe the possible atomic meltdown is bordering on reckless hyperbole: apocalypse, out of control, catastrophic. Looting: Japan vs. U.S.Most people chalk up the extraordinary good behavior to Japanese culture, noting the legendary politeness of Japanese people in everyday life. Certainties of modern life upended in JapanJapan, a country lulled by the reassuring rhythms of order and predictability, has been jolted by earthquake, tsunami and nuclear crisis into an unsettling new reality: lack of control. Radiation rises to deadly levels at FukushimaRadiation from Japan’s quake-stricken Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant has reached harmful levels, the government says. Tsunami damage in California upward of $40MA federal team will be in Crescent City later this week to use special sonar equipment to map sunken boats in the harbor.
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