Category: Japan

NOVANEWS by Dr:  Richard Falk In the years after World War II there was a widespread belief that rational minds would prevail, and that nuclear weapons would not be further developed, and their possession as […]

NOVANEWS By Yoshimi Yoshiaki Global Research Translated and introduced by Ethan Mark Introduction: The People and the War As a young historian researching prewar popular political movements in the early 1970s, Yoshimi Yoshiaki (b. 1946) became increasingly struck—and troubled—by […]

NOVANEWS International Scholars, Artists, and Activists Petition. World Eyes on Okinawa By Steve Rabson Global Research Introduction by Steve Rabson International Scholars, Artists, and Activists Petition to Prevent a New U.S. Military Base in Okinawa In […]

NOVANEWS ByDr: Richard Falk The terrifying nuclear disaster of March 11, 2011 associated with the reactor meltdowns, hydrogen explosion, and release of radioactivity at the Fukushima Daiichi reactor complex was an anguishing complement to the awful […]

NOVANEWS By: Dr Richard Falk The Weird ‘Good Fortune’ of Tsutomu Yamaguchi Over the years I have often thought about the political and moral consciousness associated with the atomic targeting of Japanese cities, as well as the absence […]

NOVANEWS by: Prof Richard Falk No public figure was more convincing and determined to pursue the ideal of a world without nuclear weaponry than Mikhail Gorbachev while he was the transformative General Secretary of the Communist […]

NOVANEWS Sputnik  According to London-based independent consultant on radioactivity in the environment Dr. Ian Fairlie, the health toll from the Fukushima nuclear catastrophe is horrific: about 12,000 workers have been exposed to high levels of […]

NOVANEWS by Prof: Richard Falk [Prefatory Note: What follows is a poem by David Krieger on what happened 70 years ago during those few fateful days in August that forever altered the human condition followed by […]

NOVANEWS   by: Prof Richard Falk [Prefatory Note: I have been preoccupied for many years with the multiple challenges posed by nuclear weapons, initially from the perspective of international law and morality, later with regard to […]