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Mar 9, 2021 The 2011 Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant accident was Japan’s greatest national crisis in the postwar era. In the midst of the crisis, the then Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ) government secretly commissioned experts to create a worst-case scenario in which the fuel rods in the fuel pool would dissolve and come into contact with concrete, releasing large amounts of radioactive material into the atmosphere. Depending on wind direction, 30 million people in the Tokyo metropolitan area would have to be evacuated. At that time, the entire eastern part of Japan would hav...

Operation Tomodachi was "a shining example of the importance of the U.S.-Japan alliance," John Roos said in an interview ahead of the 10th anniversary of the disaster

Русский Washington, March 6 (Jiji Press)--John Roos, U.S. ambassador to Japan at the time of the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami, has reflected on the U.S. military-led Operation Tomodachi disaster relief mission and its significance in bringing closer people in the two countries. Operation Tomodachi was "a massive humanitarian success" and "a shining example of the importance of the U.S.-Japan alliance," Roos said in an interview with Jiji Press ahead of the 10th anniversary of the disaster that struck mainly the northeastern Japan Tohoku region on March 11, 2011. Roos, 66, was in a...

I am writing concerning the disrespect shown to the soldiers who gave their lives defending this country. I am a student at Lancaster High School and I feel that the Lancaster County School Board’s decision to have school on Memorial Day is very hypocritical. We are taught in school to honor and respect the ones who decide to serve in the military and fight for our freedoms and yet the school board decides that it is justified to have classes rather than show the very respect they teach us to have.

JAPAN LOOKS AT NEW BASE RELOCATION OPTION Submitted by admin on Mon, 03/08/2010 - 00:00 Futenma troops would move to new Okinawa site By Therese Hart HAGATNA, Guam (Pacific Daily News, ) – The Japanese government has conveyed to the United States that Tokyo will not go through with an existing plan to relocate a U.S. Marine base in Okinawa. Citing several Japanese-U.S. sources, Kyodo News reported that Japan has now begun considering in earnest an alternative plan to reclaim an area between the U.S. Navy facility on White Beach in Uruma and Tsuken Island off the main island of Ok...