Japan

Japan’s right: going nuke?

October 17, 2012 By Conn Hallinan

Behind the current impasse over five tiny specks of land in the East China Sea is an influential right-wing movement in Japan.

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Post-Fukushima Japan looking into fracking?

October 4, 2012 By Blake Skylar

With anti-nuclear protests heating up after Japan revoked a previous anti-nuke plan, the country is desperately looking for energy alternatives.

Japan withdraws goal of no nukes by 2040

September 25, 2012 By Blake Skylar

If the Japanese government continues to cater to corporate interests, critics fear, it will accommodate neither public demand nor scientific fact.

Mutated butterflies: Fukushima aftermath continues

August 17, 2012 By Blake Skylar

For those who continue to argue that nuclear energy is both feasible and safe, protesters may have a new, compelling argument: "Tell that to the butterflies."

Today in labor history … no more Hiroshimas or Nagasakis

August 9, 2012 By Special to People’s World

The United States dropped a nuclear bomb on Nagasaki, Japan today Aug. 9, 1945, three days after the bombing of Hiroshima, the only two cases of using a nuclear weapon against civilians.