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Fear in East Asia as Japan Began Releasing Filtered Nuclear Wastewater

By Kristi Greenwood, BA Japanese Chinese customs stated all imports of Japanese seafood would be banned ‘to protect the health of consumers’ Japan’s decades-long plan of releasing nuclear wastewater into the ocean, equal to 500 Olympic swimming pools, has finally begun. The wastewater has resulted from the cleanup project
spiritadmin Nov 6, 2023
Kamaishi in Recovery: Rugby restores hope after the 2011 tsunami

Kamaishi in Recovery: Rugby restores hope after the 2011 tsunami

The city of Kamaishi, in North-eastern Japan, has a brand new 16,187 seat rugby stadium. While this might seem unremarkable, the Recovery Memorial Stadium has a significant symbolic value to the people of Kamaishi, perhaps none more so than 61-year-old resident Jiro Ishiyama. Back in the 1980s, Ishiyama represented
spiritadmin Oct 24, 2018
The Flavour of Japanese Bureaucracy

The Flavour of Japanese Bureaucracy

Theo Cohn, BA International Relations and Chinese The place I grew up in is a land with a famously unique culture where obscure, if not bizarre, traditions remain to this day. Japan’s conservative and proud reluctance to fully align many of its practices with the west, makes it difficult
spiritadmin Dec 9, 2014

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