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Japan

As Trump Sells War Ahead of Korea Visit, Groups Demand 'Urgent Pivot Towards Peace'

South Korean protesters take part in an anti-Trump rally in front of the U.S. Embassy on November 4, 2017 in Seoul, South Korea. Trump will visit South Korea on November 7 as a part of his Asian tour. (Photo: Woohae Cho/Getty Images)

Trump Can't Understand Why Japan Didn't Shoot Down N. Korea's Missiles: Report

Jake Johnson, staff writer

The U.S. president's reported comments came during recent talks with Asian leaders

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Japanese Warned Leaked Radiation From North Korea Nuke Site Could Be Blowing Their Way

Jessica Corbett, staff writer

Ryoo Yong-gyu

Contamination concerns grow as North Korean soldiers reportedly being treated...

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Court Awards Fukushima Residents Measly $3,200 for Nuclear Disaster That Made Area Unlivable

Jessica Corbett, staff writer

plaintiffs

Japanese government and TEPCO ordered to pay only fraction of damages sought

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This handout video grab taken with an underwater robot and provided by Japan's International Research Institute for Nuclear Decommissioning on July 21 shows a part of the pedestal wall inside reactor No. 3 at Fukushima nuclear power plant.

Video from Underwater Robot Shows Melted Nuclear Fuel in Bowels of Fukushima Reactor

Sparking Fears of Airborne Radiation, Wildfire Burns in Fukushima 'No-Go Zone'

A Westinghouse nuclear plant under construction near Waynesboro, Georgia.

Nuclear Power Suffers Major Blow With Westinghouse Bankruptcy

The Resistance Abroad: Expats Rejecting Trump Administration

Mar-A-Lago Diners Get Front Row Seat to Trump's Nuclear Crisis

Under Nuclear Shadow of Trump, Abe's Pearl Harbor Visit Mixes Business and Penitence

Dakota Access Pipeline protest in Tokyo, Japan

Activists Around the World Take #NoDAPL Fight to the Banks

Tsunami Panic After 6.9 Magnitude Earthquake Strikes Off Fukushima Coast

Hey, Trump Told, 'Get Your Daughter the F$%k Out of State Meetings!'

From Cheers to Caution, World Leaders React to Trump Victory

Public Cost of Fukushima Cleanup Tops $40 Billion and Is Expected to Climb

Nagasaki Mayor: 'Come Find Out What Happened Under the Mushroom Cloud'

Further

Fish From Fukushima

Fishermen have resumed fishing after postponing their start when hundreds of tons of radioactive water were found leaking from the crippled Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant. Twenty-one trawlers brought home 5 tons of seafood, including octopus and squid, from the trial operation; if testing shows they're safe, they'll be shipped to markets in Japan. While older people are said to be buying fish from the sea off Fukushima Prefecture, others don't want their kids or grandkids eating it...

Newswire

As Trump Visits Asia, Civil Society in the U.S., South Korea, and Japan Call for Bold Shift in Policy to Avert War in Korea

Greenpeace

Westinghouse Bankruptcy Underscores Meltdown of the Global Nuclear Industry

Veterans for Peace

Veterans Apologize to Japan For Using Nuclear Weapons

350.org

350.org Japan and Green Peace Japan Hold Joint #NoDAPL Action Encouraging Japanese Banks’ to Divest from the Dakota Access Pipeline

Peace Action

On 71st Anniversary of the U.S. Atomic Bombings of Japan

Greenpeace

Greenpeace Calls Out Obama’s Double Standards for a Nuclear-Free World at Hiroshima Visit

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Views

Satoko Oka Norimatsu

Inter-Korea Summit: How One Japanese Views The Japanese Mainstream Attitudes toward the North-South Detente on the Peninsula

Tom Fowdy

We Cannot Go on Like This. It Is Time to Talk to North Korea

Paul Watson

The Whale Wars Continue

Jon Rainwater

Why the U.S. Resistance Should Support Protests in Okinawa

Susan Southard

72 Years After Bombing of Nagasaki, There Are 15,000 Nuclear Weapons in the World

Moé Yonamine

Fighting for Okinawa — My Home, Not a Military Base

Nozomi Hayase

Moral Injury of War and the Invisible Wound of Empire

Dorothy M. Ehrlich

The 75th Anniversary of E.O. 9066 Is a Solemn Reminder to Fight Back Against the Trump Administration's Fearmongering

Shirley Ann Higuchi

What Happened to Japanese Americans 75 Years Ago Is Newly Relevant

Michael Winship

An Unexpected Lesson from Pearl Harbor

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