NOVANEWS Elderly protesters were dragged off by riot police on Thursday after staging a sit-in and blocking a road in protest of the construction of a new US military base in Okinawa. Hundreds of people […]
NOVANEWS by OLIVER TICKELL The Japanese government has made its first admission that a worker at the Fukushima nuclear plant developed cancer as a following decontamination work after the 2011 disaster. The man worked at the […]
NOVANEWS RT Fukushima police have finally reacted to a criminal complaint filed against TEPCO and 32 of its top officials two years ago over the contamination caused by the 2011 nuclear disaster. They have referred […]
NOVANEWS by GARY LEUPP The Japanese Diet’s passage of laws that allow for Japanese military action in support of a “close ally” when attacked represent a violation of Japan’s fundamental law, which (since 1947) has clearly […]
NOVANEWS by Dr: Richard Falk [Prefatory Note: The following post was originally published as an opinion piece in the leading Japanese newspaper, Asahi Shimbun, and appears here with their permission. The link to the Japanese version: http://digital.asahi.com/articles/DA3S11975719.html There […]
NOVANEWS By James Brown The Asia-Pacific Journal, Vol. 13, Issue. 38, No. 3 The territorial dispute between Russia and Japan over the Southern Kurils/Northern Territories has long been in a state of impasse. In simple terms, […]
NOVANEWS By RT Global Research At least 82 bags filled with contaminated material from the crippled Fukushima nuclear plant have been swept away by flood water as typhoon Etau hit Japan, officials said. TEPCO said rainwater […]
NOVANEWS by Richard Falk [Prefatory Note: This is the tenth, and mercifully the last, in this series of posts prompted by the 70th observance of the atomic attacks in 1945. The intention has been to explore […]
NOVANEWS Marshall Islands Nuclear Zero Litigation by Dr: Richard Falk [Prefatory Note: Two prior posts, The Nuclear Challenge (1) & (2) address indirectly the efforts of international law and lawyers to highlight the clash between international law […]
NOVANEWS Civil Society Activism on Behalf of Nuclear Zero by Dr: Richard Falk The Jeffersonian faith in the future of democracy rested on the cumulative impact of education on citizen participation encouraging a robust and […]