"Countdown to meltdown": How Japan-US relations …
Exclusive interviews with key behind-the-scenes players in the 2011 Fukushima nuclear disaster reveal how United States-Japan relations were put to the …
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Fukushima 50
March 11, 2011 – 2:46 PM – Japan's Tohoku Region: at a magnitude of 9.0, the strongest earthquake in the country's history strikes, triggering a huge tsunami and carnage that would end up killing thousands of people and displacing many more. It mercilessly engulfs the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant in Fukushima prefecture ...
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Exclusive interview with The Wolverine stars Rila Fukushima…
Three actors in particular, Rila Fukushima (who plays Wolverine's petite "bodyguard" Yukio), Tao Okamoto (who plays his love interest) and Hiroyuki Sanada (who plays an antagonist named ...
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Fukushima official says release of treated water is a …
An official in charge of the wrecked Fukushima nuclear power plant says the upcoming release of treated radioactive water into the sea more than 12 years after the reactors' meltdown marks "a milestone," but is still only an initial step in a daunting decades-long decommissioning process. ... (TEPCO), speaks in an interview with The ...
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Five Years After Fukushima Nuclear Disaster, Survivors Share Their Stories
FUKUSHIMA, Japan—For the past two months, I've been traveling across Fukushima, the site of the 2011 nuclear disaster, to interview local residents and give voice to the people directly affected by the accident. It's been five years since a giant earthquake triggered a tsunami that inundated the Tohoku coast, killing over 17,000 …
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The Wolverine Interview: Rila Fukushima On Yukio
The Wolverine Interview: Rila Fukushima On Yukio. by Amon Warmann. July 25th, 2013. The Wolverine claws its way into cinemas this week in what will be the character s sixth appearance on the big ...
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Rila Fukushima, Hiro Sanada and Tao Okamoto Talk THE
During my video interview with Fukushima, Sanad, and Okamot, they talked about making the film, the costumes, sets and script, the buzz for the film in Japan, what they collect, and more. Hit the ...
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'Fukushima 50': Movie About Japan Nuclear Disaster To Star
Japan's The Kadokawa Corporation has set Setsuro Wakamatsu to direct and Koichi Sato and Ken Watanabe to star in Fukushima 50, a feature film about Japan's 2011 nuclear plant disaster, when a post-earthquake tsunami hit the Fukushima Daiichi facility and caused a meltdown of the core reactors. The film, based on Ryusho Kadota's book On the Brink: …
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"The Fukushima Nuclear Disaster is a Serious Crime": Interview …
Iitate village some 40-50 km away received an enormous amount of contamination and was neglected for over a month. Soma residents evacuated to Iitate, this kind of stupidity cannot stand, the government's criminal mistakes. ... Katsuya Hirano and Hirotaka Kasai interview Koide Hiroaki, "The Fukushima Nuclear Disaster is a Serious …
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Review: "Fukushima 50" Offers Uncontroversial Take …
Courtesy of Japan Cuts. "3.6 roentgen, not great, not terrible." So goes the now-famous quip from the American HBO hit series Chernobyl.This line also bears …
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Voices From the Inside: Fukushima's Workers Speak
"Mr. Tamura," a "Nuclear Gypsy," contracted to work for different companies I got the call, and it wasn't a very heavy atmosphere, it was no different from usual. "We're looking for … See more
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The Fukushima 50 (2012)
The true story of how the Fukushima 50 took on the daunting task of bringing the Fukushima D nuclear power plant back from the brink of complete disaster and averted a meltdown of ...
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Fukushima 50 | Rotten Tomatoes
Facing a life or death situation, the power plant workers known as the "Fukushima 50", including shift supervisor Izaki and plant manager Yoshida, remain on the site until the …
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Fukushima 50
Workers at the Fukushima Daiichi plant in Japan are risking their lives and staying at the nuclear power plant to prevent total destruction after the region was hit by natural disasters in 2011. Nearly an hour after the quake, Fukushima Daiichi suffered a power outage, causing the power-operated cooling systems to fail.
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Voices From the Inside: Fukushima's Workers Speak | FRONTLINE …
This is the disaster in their own words, translated and curated from their interviews. ... Then the now famous "Fukushima 50" were the 57 people who stayed. Fifty-seven people stayed. I did ...
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any interviews with the fukushima
Jun 03, 2011· Exclusive Arnie Gundersen Interview: The Dangers of Fukushima Are Worse and Longer-Lived Than We Think by Adam Taggart. Friday, June 3, 2011, 7:54 PM + A; A-A; Tags. Podcast "I have said it's worse than Chernobyl, and I'll stand by that. There was an enormous amount of radiation given out in the first two to three weeks of the event.
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Are the Fukushima 50 doomed to death? | The Week
The Fukushima 50 aren't on their own anymore — there are now about 400 Tokyo Electric Power Co. employees inside the plant. They work in rotating 12-hour shifts.
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The Wolverine — Rila Fukushima Interview
After The Wolverine 's rather exciting London première, I caught up with a few of the principals of the movie for a quick chat. Unfortunately, I couldn't persuade Ol' Canucklehead's brand new ...
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Rila Fukushima Talks THE WOLVERINE, Fight Sequences
Published May 28, 2013. Rila Fukushima The Wolverine Interview. Rila Fukushima talks about playing Yukio, fight sequences, and more on the Wolverine set. In the latest trailer for The Wolverine ...
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Fukushima 50 review – simmering tribute to power-plant heroes
Played by Ken Watanabe as a man having the ultimate bad day at work, the simmering Yoshida looks in need of a similar intervention. Wakamatsu treats his account of these critical hours – the ...
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The National Diet of Japan
Our investigation included more than 900 hours of hearings and interviews with 1,167 people. We made nine site visits to nuclear power plants including Fukushima Daiichi, Fukushi-ma Daini, Tohoku Electric Power Company Onagawa Nuclear Power Plant, and The Japan Atomic Power Company Tokai Daini Power Plant, in order to conduct as …
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How deadly lessons from Fukushima changed Japan and the …
Kan forced about 69 workers to stay at the plant and pump water onto the reactors (these workers are the inspiration for the movie "Fukushima 50"). Eventually and reluctantly, he did ask the U.S. for help. (Others might argue the Americans forced their way in after detecting a radioactive plume 100 nautical miles offshore of Fukushima.)
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Angry Reminders: Lee Ann Roripaugh's Tsunami vs. the Fukushima 50
Human refusal to read nature's warnings becomes a repetitive alarm throughout the poems, in which monsters rise out of neglect, anger, and abuse. The book has a melancholy subject but is electric with feelings of loss, anger, and an increasing sense of unease. In Tsunami vs. the Fukushima 50, a book that crackles with imaginative …
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Life among the Fukushima 50: 'Don't call me a hero'
Tepco itself is reluctant to wheel the Fukushima 50 in front of the media, for fear of what they might reveal about what happened – Yoshizawa is shadowed throughout his interviews by a PR minder.
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Japan's Fukushima 50: Heroes Who Volunteered to Stay …
There are 200 of them and they work in shifts of 50, earning the inaccurate nickname the Fukushima 50. At one point, even these men were pulled back 500 yards from the deteriorating nuke plants ...
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Japan tsunami: Fukushima Fifty, the first interview
Exclusive: in their own words, members of the Fukushima Fifty - the emergency crew tackling Japan's nuclear crisis - tell of the dangers and fears they face. By Andrew Gilligan And Robert ...
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The real Fukushima: an interview | InsideJapan Blog
Help us by sharing it! On the 11th of March, 2011, the fourth largest earthquake since records began struck off the north-east coast of Japan, causing a tsunami with waves up to 40 metres high. Heading inland at 435 miles per hour, the tsunami battered the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant, triggering hydrogen explosions at …
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10-year Investigation Commission on the Fukushima …
The Independent Investigation Commission on the Fukushima Nuclear Accident Menu Toggle. ... The project conducted interviews surveying six hospitals, pharmacies, elder facilities, and administrative agencies, all located within the sheltering zone, a 20-30km area from TEPCO's Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station. ...
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Fukushima 50: 'We felt like kamikaze pilots ready to sace
While the Chilean miners who spent 69 days trapped deep underground in 2010 were feted as national heroes, most of the Fukushima workers continue to live …
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Heroism and humility | The Economist
Heroism and humility. Meet the "Fukushima 50", the men on the front line of the nuclear disaster. Oct 27th 2012 | TOKYO. Tweet. ACCORDING to his friends, the man in charge of the Fukushima Dai ...
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