7/20/2012 Osaka, Sapporo Eyed As Standby Capital After 'Big One'

Source:  The Nikkei via Prisonplanet.com
Date: Friday, July 20, 2012

TOKYO (Nikkei)--A Cabinet Office council has proposed five cities -- Osaka, Sapporo, Sendai, Nagoya and Fukuoka -- to replace Tokyo as the seat of government should an earthquake knock out the capital.
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8/10/2011 Radiation Deception Continues

Source: Dr. Sircus' Blog
Date: 8/10/2011

Plants are dying in the middle of central Tokyo and it could be because of the increase in radiation. One irony of the radioactive fallout from Fukushima is that people in Japan are starting to pay more attention to nature. The picture above was taken on the sidewalk of Hakusan Dori in Bunkyo-ku in Tokyo, and was uploaded on July 30. The air radiation in Bunkyo-ku has been higher than the official Tokyo number (measured in Shinjuku-ku, western central Tokyo), along with several other eastern “ku” (special wards of Tokyo). The person who took the picture says, “About 30% of azaleas on the sidewalk are completely dead. Ginkgo leaves are browning.”
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7/6/2011 Japan Has Two Reactors Without Approval as Fukushima Raises Safety Concern

Source: Bloomberg
Date: Jul 6, 2011 12:04 AM CT
by: Tsuyoshi Inajima and Chisaki Watanabe

Kansai Electric Power Co. and Hokkaido Electric Power Co. are operating two nuclear reactors without approvals, four months after the Fukushima disaster raised concern atomic power in Japan may not be safe.
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