Walking the streets of Japan’s nuclear ghost town

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Video Walking the streets of Japan’s nuclear ghost town

Few people are granted access to the radioactive Fukushima exclusion zone in Japan, which remains abandoned and frozen in time on March 11, 2011 -- the day a massive earthquake and subsequent tsunami caused a triple nuclear meltdown in the city. Channel 4's Alex Thomson ...

200-year-old rockfish

200-year-old rockfish caught off Alaska coast

200-year-old rockfish: A Seattle resident caught a shortraker rockfish, which at some two centuries old might be the oldest one ever caught.

By Elizabeth Barber, Contributor / July 3, 2013

Sport fisherman Henry Liebman, from Seattle, holds his record-breaking shortraker rockfish at the Alaska Department of Fish and Game office on Friday in Sitka, Alaska. The fish measured more than 40 inches and weighed almost 40 pounds.

James Poulson/Daily Sitka Sentinel/AP

CHILDREN OF THE TSUNAMI

Published on Jul 8, 2012

Source B.B.C
Duration: 1 hour

On March 11th 2011 Japan was hit by the greatest tsunami in a thousand years.

Through compelling testimony from 7-10 year-old survivors, this film reveals how the deadly wave and the Fukushima nuclear accident have changed children's lives forever.

The story unfolds at two key locations: a primary school where 74 children were killed by the tsunami; and a school close to the Fukushima nuclear plant, attended by children evacuated from the nuclear exclusion zone.

Credits
Director : Dan Reed
Producer : Dan Reed
Executive Producer : Alex Cooke
Writer : Dan Reed

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The Japan Nuclear Crowd Map

Radiation Nation

Remember Fukushima? They haven’t fixed it yet. Latest reports say they might be able to remove the molten fuel (the exact location of which is still unclear) by… 2020. And that’s just for starters in decommissioning terms. So maybe you should keep monitoring your local radiation levels. The Japan Nuclear Crowd Map, by researchers from the University of Southampton, shows you the average radiation in your area. The aim of it apparently is to “demonstrate the power of harvesting crowd-powered information to make up-to-date predictions accessible to users.” Just pop in your postcode and find out whether you need to dust off your boiler suit and goggles. http://jncm.ecs.soton.ac.uk

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A man of three worlds - Rev. Ehrhardt Lang

Ehrhardt Lang holds a tablet that belonged to his father with the scripture John 3:16 engraved on it. 

Lang is a retired minister who was raised in Japan where his father was a minister in Yokohama. 

//Bryan Walton/Staff

Rev. Ehrhardt Lang

Ernst Lang was a Lutheran missionary soon to be posted to Yokohama, Japan, when he proposed to the love of his life, Dorothea Bartsch, in Berlin in 1928. Fraulein Bartsch was distraught. She welcomed his proposal of marriage, but not his proposal that she should leave her friends, her family and her country to go to she knew not what. She said she would answer him in a letter.

Weeks went by, no answer. Finally, a letter came: “I will bear my cross.” 

Ernst took that as a “yes.” Arrangements were made for Dorothea to take missionary training in Germany, but Ernst had to go on to Japan without her. Two years later, in 1930, Dorothea found herself headed east through Siberia on a train with two other missionary women, one of whom, Katie, was also going to meet her fiancé.

Part 1

A man of three worlds
Part 2

Picking up the pieces in the aftermath of war
Part 3

Chaplains, GIs and Red Sox

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Chasing Waves South of Tokyo

Overnighter

 

Chasing Waves South of Tokyo

By JAMES NESTOR

The tiny island of Niijima, a short flight from the capital, has some of Japan's best surf, not to mention a colorful history.