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Japan's planned discharge of Fukushima nuke wastewater sparks anger

STORY: Japan's planned discharge of Fukushima nuke wastewater sparks anger DATELINE: Aug. 22, 2023 LENGTH: 0:01:50 LOCATION: Tokyo CATEGORY: POLITICS/ENVIRONMENT SHOTLIST: 1 STANDUP (English): TU YIFAN, Xinhua correspondent 2 various of the rally 3 SOUNDBITE 1 (Japanese): Protester 4 SOUNDBITE 2 (Japanese): HIDEKI TAKI, Rally's organizers 5 various of the fishery in Japan 6 various of the rally STORYLINE: STANDUP (English): TU YIFAN, Xinhua correspondent "I'm here by the seaside of Soma City near Fukushima Prefecture. Japanese government announced Tuesday it has decided to start releasing nuclear-contaminated wastewater from the crippled Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant into the ocean on Thursday, weather conditions permitting. Despite raging opposition from both home and abroad, Prime Minister Fumio Kishida announced the controversial decision following a ministerial meeting held on Tuesday morning. On the same day, despite pouring rain, hundreds of Japanese gathered in front of the Japanese prime m

Japan conducts quake drills across the nation

KAWASAKI, Japan - Prime Minister Taro Aso salutes during a closing ceremony for an annual anti-earthquake drill in Kawasaki, south of Tokyo, on Sept. 1, the 86th anniversary of the 1923 killer quake. Sept. 1 is designated as National Disaster Prevention Day, the anniversary of the magnitude 7.9 Great Kanto Earthquake in 1923 that devastated the Tokyo metropolitan area. (Kyodo)

Your Party's Watanabe reelected

TOKYO, Japan - Yoshimi Watanabe, leader of the small opposition Your Party, celebrates by putting a flower atop his name on a board after securing reelection as a House of Representatives lawmaker in the Aug. 30 general election at a Tokyo hotel. Watanabe, a former Cabinet minister on administrative reforms, defected from Prime Minister Taro Aso's ruling Liberal Democratic Party in January. (Kyodo)

Aso on stumping tour

TOKYO, Japan - Prime Minister Taro Aso, wearing an aloha shirt, makes a stumping speech for the Aug. 30 House of Representatives election in Iwaki, Fukushima Prefecture on Aug. 21. (Kyodo)

Aso, Hatoyama in general election campaigning

TOKYO, Japan - Two separate photos show Democratic Party of Japan President Yukio Hatoyama (L) punching the air at a stump stop near JR Yokohama Station, and Prime Minister Taro Aso (R), who heads the ruling Liberal Democratic Party, waving near JR Akabane Station, respectively, on Aug. 18, the start of the official campaign for Japan's Aug. 30 House of Representatives election. (Kyodo)

Aso, Hatoyama face off

TOKYO, Japan - Japanese opposition camp leader Yukio Hatoyama (R), president of the Democratic Party of Japan, speaks at a debate with the leaders of five other major parties including Prime Minister Taro Aso (L), who doubles as president of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party, at the Japan National Press Club in Tokyo on Aug. 17, on the eve of the start of official campaigning for the Aug. 30 general election. (Kyodo)

U.S., Japanese cherry blossom queens pay courtesy call on Aso

TOKYO, Japan - U.S. Cherry Blossom Queen Tatiana Duran (L) and Japanese Cherry Blossom Queen Erisa Kazui (R) pose with Prime Minister Taro Aso at the prime minister's office in Tokyo on May 11 on a courtesy call. (Kyodo)

Russia shows seized Japanese fishing boat in Nakhodka

MOSCOW, Russia - A crew member of the Japanese crab-fishing boat Yoshi Maru No. 38 shows a pack of crabs the ship caught to Russian border guard authorities at Nakhodka port on Jan. 30. The Japanese boat was seized in the Sea of Japan on Jan. 27 on suspicion of fishing in Russia's exclusive economic zone without authorization from Russia. The border guard authorities let the Russian press see the seized boat the same day. (Kyodo)

Fukuda chooses new LDP leadership ahead of Cabinet reshuffle

TOKYO, Japan - Taro Aso (L), new secretary general of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party, and Bunmei Ibuki, LDP's outgoing secretary general, shake hands at the LDP's headquarters in Tokyo on Aug. 1. Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda appointed new executives in the LDP ahead of reshuffling his Cabinet. (Kyodo)

ARF to welcome N. Korea's denuke steps as 6-way talks gain momentum

MANILA, Philippines - Japanese Foreign Minister Taro Aso (C), South Korean Foreign Affairs and Trade Minister Song Min Soon (R) and North Korean Foreign Minister Pak Ui Chun (left back to the camera) are seated for the 14th ministerial meeting of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations Regional Forum in Manila on Aug. 2. The ministers from 27 Asia-Pacific nations and their dialogue partners are expected to welcome North Korea's announcement that it will implement its commitment to denuclearize itself.

Russian border patrol shoot Japan boat fisherman to death

TOKYO, Japan - Foreign MInister Taro Aso speaks with reporters on Aug. 16 about the detention earlier in the day of a Japanese crab fishing boat by a Russian border patrol unit, during which one of the boat's crew was shot dead.

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