BY RICHARD FALK Photograph Source: George R. Caron – Public Domain 77 Years After Hiroshima and Nagasaki Peace activists around the world often choose August 6th and 9th each year to grieve anew the human suffering and devastation […]
BY DAVE LINDORFF Image by Oliver Grant. Back in March 1976, while working as a young journalist for the Evening Outlook, a conservative family-owned daily paper published until 1998 in Santa Monica, California, I wrote an article […]
By: beyondnuclearinternational Japanese Supreme Court exonerates government from blame for Fukushima nuclear disaster Statement by attorney Kimiko Fukutake, published by Citizens’ Nuclear Information Center On June 17, 2022, the Supreme Court of Japan put an end […]
BY ROBERT HUNZIKER Photograph Source: IAEA Imagebank – https://www.flickr.com/photos/iaea_imagebank/11083570446/ – CC BY-SA 2.0 The Japanese government’s decision one year ago to dump radioactive water from Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant storage tanks into the Pacific Ocean, starting […]
BY VIJAY PRASHAD Disputed islands in question: Habomai Islands, Shikotan, Kunashiri (Kunashir) and Etorofu (Iturup) – Public Domain Each year, Japan’s Foreign Ministry releases a Diplomatic Bluebook, a guide to the government’s views on the world. Kyodo News, […]
By VT Press TV: North Korea has conducted what is suspected to be its largest intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) test, South Korea and Japan said. South Korea’s Joint Chiefs of Staff said on Thursday it detected […]
BY ROBERT HUNZIKER Photograph Source: IAEA Imagebank – CC BY 2.0 Tokyo Electric Power Company-TEPCO- has been attempting to decommission three nuclear meltdowns in reactors No. 1 No. 2, and No. 3 for 11 years now. Over […]
The recent disclosure by Kyodo News of a joint US-Japan joint operation plan to set up an attack base along the Nansei island chain will most certainly draw a backlash. M.K. Bhadrakumar Warship formations of […]
BY JACQUES R. PAUWELS Photograph Source: ENERGY.GOV – Public Domain Myth: The war in the Far East only ended in the summer of 1945, when the US president and his advisors felt that, to force the […]
BY HENRY GIROUX Detail from a U.S. Air Force map of Hiroshima, pre-bombing, circles drawn at 1,000 foot intervals radiating out from ground zero, the site directly under the explosion. (U.S. National Archives and Records Administration). […]