Tag: Japan
This chart explains why Trump backflipped on tariffs. The economic damage...
The answer is simple: the economic cost to the U.S. was too high.
ICAN celebrates Nobel Peace Prize winner and heeds call to abolish...
ICAN calls on the countries who have yet to join the TPNW to reject nuclear weapons and join in the motto, “No more Hibakusha.”
Earthquake in Japan kills 55 people
The earthquake was categorized as the deadliest in the country since 2016.
China bans seafood imports from Japan after release of Fukushima wastewater...
The Chinese customs bureau said the immediate ban was put in place to prevent “the risk of radioactive contamination of food safety caused by Japan’s Fukushima nuclear contaminated water discharge.”
Japan to release wastewater from Fukushima nuclear plant into Pacific Ocean
PM Fumio Kishida insisted that the water release “is absolutely not something we can put off if we want to decommission the Fukushima nuclear plant and revive the area."
Governments of California and Japan announce new collaboration to clean up...
The U.S.-Japan Competitiveness and Resilience Partnership will make “common and concrete efforts to decarbonize operations.”
The collapse of the East Asian order
With Japan and South Korea in the middle of a feud, East Asia is on the verge of a serious unraveling.
Did the US really intend to destroy the Soviet Union with...
74 years ago by the United States dropped the only two atomic bombs exploded in war on cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki....
‘Blatant disregard of international laws and treaties’: Japan resumes commercial whaling
"We see the resumption of Japan's commercial whaling as merely a continuation of the Japanese Government's blatant disregard of international laws and treaties."
Otter cafés and ‘cute pets craze’ fuel illegal trafficking in Japan...
A new documentary film has been released that shines a spotlight on the illegal trade in the Asian small-clawed otter, a species listed as vulnerable and in decline by the International Union for the Conservation of Nature.
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The actual Gavin Newsom is much worse than you think
For anyone who wants a truly progressive Democratic Party, Gavin Newsom is bad news.
Senators probe Equifax over plans to profit from Medicaid and SNAP work requirements
Warren, Wyden, and Sanders are demanding disclosures from Equifax as new federal work requirements threaten to strip healthcare and food assistance from millions while expanding the company’s already dominant income verification business.
The digital media oligarchy: Who owns online news?
Even Bagdikian’s later editions, written at the dawn of the internet, could not fully anticipate how profoundly digital technology would reconfigure the media oligarchy.
Trump’s Board of Peace is a dystopia in motion
If any entity requires immediate disarmament and deradicalization, it is Trump and his so-called Executive Board.
DHS warehouse jail plan signals historic expansion of immigration detention
Documents and reporting reveal a sweeping plan to convert warehouses and deploy military contracting to rapidly expand immigration jails across the United States.