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Japan to start ocean discharge of Fukushima nuke wastewater Thursday

STORY: Japan to start ocean discharge of Fukushima nuke wastewater Thursday DATELINE: Aug. 22, 2023 LENGTH: 00:00:51 LOCATION: Tokyo CATEGORY: ENVIRONMENT/SOCIETY SHOTLIST: 1. various of Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant 2. various of people opposing 3. various of Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant and local fishermen STORYLINE: The 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. The decision was made amid strong opposition from neighboring and Pacific island countries, as well as local fishermen over the irreversible impacts on the marine environment and public health. The Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, hit by a magnitude-9.0 earthquake and an ensuing tsunami on March 11, 2011, suffered core meltdowns that released radiation. In April 2021, the Japanese government announced its controversial plan to release nuclear-contaminated water from the facilit

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Japanese rally against ocean discharge of nuclear-contaminated wastewater

STORY: Japanese rally against ocean discharge of nuclear-contaminated wastewater DATELINE: Aug. 19, 2023 LENGTH: 0:01:52 LOCATION: Tokyo CATEGORY: ENVIRONMENT/SOCIETY SHOTLIST: 1 various of the rally 2 various of the crippled Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant STORYLINE: As the Japanese government approaches a decision on the specific date for the discharge of nuclear-contaminated water from the crippled Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant into the ocean, hundreds of Japanese gathered in central Tokyo on Friday to rally against the discharge plan. Despite scorching temperatures exceeding 35 degrees Celsius, people from various parts of Japan braved the heat to gather in front of the Japanese prime minister's official residence, urging the government to uphold its promise of "no disposal without the understanding of relevant parties." Hit by a magnitude-9.0 earthquake and an ensuing tsunami on March 11, 2011, the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant suffered core meltdowns that released radiation, r

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Fireworks for tsunami victims

Fireworks light up the night sky above Minamisoma in Fukushima Prefecture, on Aug. 11, 2023, to commemorate the victims of the March 2011 earthquake-tsunami disaster that devastated the northeastern Japan city.

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Fireworks for tsunami victims

Fireworks light up the night sky above Minamisoma in Fukushima Prefecture, on Aug. 11, 2023, to commemorate the victims of the March 2011 earthquake-tsunami disaster that devastated the northeastern Japan city.

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Fireworks for tsunami victims

Fireworks light up the night sky above Minamisoma in Fukushima Prefecture, on Aug. 11, 2023, to commemorate the victims of the March 2011 earthquake-tsunami disaster that devastated the northeastern Japan city.

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Car parked near site of home swept away by 2011 tsunami

OTSUCHI, Japan - Yoshihiro Abe, who lost his parents in the 2011 earthquake and tsunami that hit the northeastern Japan region of Tohoku, has his car parked in this file photo of Aug. 11, 2014, near the site of their home that was swept away by the disaster. He regularly visits the location in Otsuchi, Iwate Prefecture, by driving about two hours from the inland town of Shiwa.

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Fireworks display to mourn victims of 2011 disaster

OTSUCHI, Japan - People watch a fireworks display in Otsuchi, Iwate Prefecture, on Aug. 11, 2014, to mourn the victims of the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami that devastated the northeastern Japan region.

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Fireworks display to mourn victims of 2011 disaster

NATORI, Japan - A young couple and their baby watch a fireworks display in Watari, Miyagi Prefecture, on Aug. 11, 2014, to mourn the victims of the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami that devastated the northeastern Japan region.

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Cenotaph as high as tsunami built in northern Japan

NATORI, Japan - A cenotaph for people killed in the earthquake and tsunami that hit northeastern Japan in 2011 is unveiled at a ceremony in the Yuriage district of Natori, Miyagi Prefecture, on Aug. 11, 2014. The cenotaph, dedicated to 944 victims in the area, stands 8.4 meters tall, the maximum height of the tsunami, and is likened to a fledgling plant.

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Police use radar to search for missing tsunami victims

SENDAI, Japan - Police officers (back) search for clues to missing people on a sandy beach in Sendai, Miyagi Prefecture, based on data sent from a ground-penetrating radar (foreground) on Aug. 11, 2014, three years and five months since the earthquake and tsunami that hit northeastern Japan in 2011.

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Police look for missing tsunami victims in coastal zone

MINAMISANRIKU, Japan - Police officers comb a coastal area in Minamisanriku, Miyagi Prefecture, in search of more than 1,000 missing people in the northeastern Japanese prefecture on Aug. 11, 2014, three years and five months since the 2011 devastating earthquake and tsunami.

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Comedian Hazama starts marathon across quake-hit Tohoku

MORIOKA, Japan - Japanese comedian Kampei Hazama strikes a pose Aug. 11, 2014, at the starting point in Miyako, Iwate Prefecture, of a 508-kilometer marathon through three prefectures -- Iwate, Miyagi, and Fukushima. A devastating earthquake and tsunami hit the region in March 2011.

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Comedian Hazama jogs ahead of marathon in Tohoku

MORIOKA, Japan - Japanese comedian Kampei Hazama jogs on Aug. 11, 2014,with elementary school children in Miyako, Iwate Prefecture, ahead of a 508-kilometer marathon across three prefectures -- Iwate, Miyagi, and Fukushima. A devastating earthquake and tsunami hit the region in March 2011.

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Tohoku students to participate in Paris event

TOKYO, Japan - Students including Yurika Kishi (R), a sophomore at Fukushima National College of Technology, give a press conference on an promotional event in Paris for the 2011 disaster-hit Tohoku region at the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology in Tokyo on July 11, 2014. Some 100 junior and senior high school students from Iwate, Miyagi and Fukushima prefectures will take part in the Aug. 30-31 event.

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2 and a half years after quake

SENDAI, Japan - Combination photos taken from a Kyodo News helicopter show the Yotsukura beach in Iwaki, Fukushima Prefecture, on March 18, 2011 (top), shortly after the March 11, 2011, Great East Japan Earthquake, with fire engines gathered to douse overheated reactors and spent fuel at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station, and the same location on the beach about two and a half years later on Aug. 18, 2013 (bottom), after opening to the public for the summer season for the first time in three years.

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Event to thank U.S. for support after 3/11 disaster

NEW YORK, United States - "Morioka Sansa Odori," a traditional dance in Iwate Prefecture's Morioka City, is performed Aug. 26, 2013, at a reception held by the prefecture in New York to thank the United States for its help after the March 11, 2011 earthquake and tsunami, which devastated northeastern Japan.

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Students from quake-hit Tohoku visit Ground Zero in N.Y.

NEW YORK, United States - Tsubasa Sugeno (L), a university student hailing from Nihonmatsu, Fukushima Prefecture, and Lee Ielpi, president of the September 11th Families' Association, trace together names of Japanese victims of the Sept. 11 terror attacks engraved on the stone monument at the World Trade Center site in New York on Aug. 13, 2012. Students hailing from the prefectures of Iwate, Miyagi and Fukushima, which were severely hit by the 2011 March earthquake and tsunami disasters, visited the site and met the bereaved families of the 9/11 victims.

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Students from quake-hit Tohoku visit Ground Zero in N.Y.

NEW YORK, United States - Ayaka Ogawa (L), who graduated from a senior high school in Iwate Prefecture, and Lee Ielpi, president of the September 11th Families' Association, trace together names of Japanese victims of the Sept. 11 terror attacks engraved on the stone monument at the World Trade Center site in New York on Aug. 13, 2012. Students hailing from the prefectures of Iwate, Miyagi and Fukushima, which were severely hit by the 2011 March earthquake and tsunami disasters, visited the site and met the bereaved families of the 9/11 victims.

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Hopes for reconstruction written on '1,000 scallop shells'

OFUNATO, Japan - Photo taken on Aug. 31, 2011 shows 1,000 origami paper ornaments folded in the shape of scallop shells decorating Koishihama station in Ofunato, Iwate Prefecture. Local people used to use real shells from farmed scallops, on which they wrote their wishes, but the scallop farming industry, along with the rail track, was devastated by the March 11 earthquake and tsunami. Visitors to the station, which has been out of operation since March 11, now write their wishes for the reconstruction of the area on the paper shells.

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B'z, Linkin Park put on aid show

LOS ANGELES, United States - Members of two rock groups, including Koshi Inaba (2nd from R), who holds a school bag to be presented to a child who suffered in the March 11 earthquake and tsunami, of B'z from Japan and Mike Shinoda (far L) of Linkin Park from the United States, attend a press conference in Los Angeles on Aug. 31, 2011. The groups put on a show in Los Angeles the same day to raise money for parts of Japan stricken by the disaster.

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B'z, Linkin Park put on aid stage

LOS ANGELES, United States - Members of two rock groups, including Koshi Inaba (2nd from R) of B'z from Japan and Mike Shinoda (far L) of Linkin Park from the United States, attend a press conference in Los Angeles on Aug. 31, 2011. The groups put on a show in Los Angeles the same day to aid people affected by the March 11 earthquake and tsunami disaster in Japan.

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Redevelopment of WTC site in N.Y.

NEW YORK, United States - Photo taken on Aug. 30, 2011, shows the World Trade Center site in New York where redevelopment works are underway to reshape the Manhattan skyline. The United States will mark the 10th anniversary next month of the Sept. 11 terror attacks.

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Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant

TOKYO, Japan - Photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter shows (from R to L) the Nos. 1, 2, 3, and 4 reactor buildings at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant in Fukushima Prefecture on Aug. 30, 2011, which has been crippled since the March 11 earthquake and tsunami. A large crane near the damaged No. 1 reactor building is being used to install airtight sheeting to help prevent the further spread of radioactive substances.

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Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant

TOKYO, Japan - Photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter shows (from L to R) the Nos. 4, 3, 2, and 1 reactor buildings at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant in Fukushima Prefecture on Aug. 30, 2011, which has been crippled since the March 11 earthquake and tsunami.

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Kansai Electric Power building with banner for power saving

OSAKA, Japan - Photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter shows Kansai Electric Power Co.'s head office in Osaka, western Japan, on Aug. 30, 2011, with a banner urging the public to reduce electricity consumption amid the country's power supply constraints in the wake of the March 11 earthquake and tsunami, and the ensuing nuclear crisis.

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Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant

TOKYO, Japan - Photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter shows (from L to R) the Nos. 1, 2, 3, and 4 reactor buildings at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant in Fukushima Prefecture on Aug. 30, 2011, which has been crippled since the March 11 earthquake and tsunami. A large crane near the damaged No. 1 reactor building is being used to install airtight sheeting to help prevent the further spread of radioactive substances.

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Palestine children's painting for Japan kids

TOKYO, Japan - Filippo Grandi (L), commissioner general of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA), shakes hands with an official of Japan's Foreign Ministry in Tokyo on Aug. 29, 2011 in front of a painting by children in Palestinian refugee camps in the Gaza Strip for Japanese children in areas hit by March earthquake and tsunami disaster. In a speech in Tokyo the same day, Grandi expressed appreciation for Japanese people's understanding, in the aftermath of the March 11 disasters, for the suffering of Palestinian refugees and presented the painting to Japan.

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Ozeki Harumafuji with sumo rankings

TOKYO, Japan - Ozeki Harumafuji from Mongolia shows the banzuke rankings of the Autumn Grand Sumo Tournament in Tokyo on Aug. 29, 2011. The tournament to be held from Sept. 11 to 25 at Ryogoku Kokugikan hall in Tokyo will be only the second basho in history not to feature Japanese yokozuna or ozeki, the top two ranks.

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Bonitos at Fukushima port

IWAKI, Japan - Photo taken on Aug. 29, 2011, shows bonitos unloaded at Onahama port in Iwaki, Fukushima Prefecture, for the first time since the March 11 tsunami and the ensuing radiation leaks at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant. Discharging of fish resumed in July at the port which was damaged by the tsunami.

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Photojournalism exhibition in France

PERPIGNAN, France - Visitors look at pictures of Japan's March earthquake and tsunami disaster on Aug. 27, 2011 at Visa pour l'Image, a major international photojournalism festival, in Perpignan, southern France, which opened the same day. A special exhibition featuring 50 Japanese disaster portraits, together with about 30 other exhibitions, is open to the public through Sep. 11. Awards for categories including news reporting and feature reporting will be announced in early September.

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Farm minister Kano

TOKYO, Japan - Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries Minister Michihiko Kano speaks during a press conference at the Japan National Press Club in Tokyo on Aug. 27, 2011, after filing his candidacy for the ruling Democratic Party of Japan's presidential election slated for Aug. 29. Kano said Japan should not immediately raise taxes for reconstruction from the March 11 earthquake and tsunami disaster.

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Kan announces resignation

ISHINOMAKI, Japan - Evacuees from areas affected by the March 11 earthquake and tsunami watch live TV coverage of a press conference given by Prime Minister Naoto Kan to explain his decision to resign on Aug. 26, 2011, at an evacuation center in Ishinomaki, Miyagi Prefecture.

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Gubernatorial race in disaster-hit Iwate Pref.

OTSUCHI, Japan - Voters listen to the speech of a gubernatorial candidate in the tsunami-hit town of Otsuchi, Iwate Prefecture, on Aug. 25, 2011, on the first day of official election campaigning. The election had been postponed due to the March 11 quake and tsunami.

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Gubernatorial race in disaster-hit Iwate Pref.

OTSUCHI, Japan - Voters listen to the speech of a gubernatorial candidate in the tsunami-hit town of Otsuchi, Iwate Prefecture, on Aug. 25, 2011, on the first day of official election campaigning. The election had been postponed due to the March 11 quake and tsunami.

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U.S. Vice President Biden at Yokota base

TOKYO, Japan - U.S. Vice President Joe Biden (C) delivers a speech in front of members of U.S. forces stationed in Japan at Yokota Air Base in Tokyo on Aug. 24, 2011, thanking them for their role in Operation Tomodachi which provided relief and recovery assistance in the wake of the March 11 earthquake and tsunami in northeastern Japan. Biden also said the U.S. alliance with Japan will become more important than in the past.

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U.S. Vice President Biden at Yokota base

TOKYO, Japan - U.S. Vice President Joe Biden delivers a speech in front of members of U.S. forces stationed in Japan at Yokota Air Base in Tokyo on Aug. 24, 2011, thanking them for their role in Operation Tomodachi which provided relief and recovery assistance in the wake of the March 11 earthquake and tsunami in northeastern Japan. Biden also said the U.S. alliance with Japan will become more important than in the past.

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Soldiers in Mogadishu

TOKYO, Japan - A truck carrying armed soldiers drives along a street in Mogadishu, Somalia, on Aug. 11, 2011. Local politicians take armed soldiers with them whenever they travel for security purposes.

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U.S. Vice President Biden at Yokota base

TOKYO, Japan - U.S. Vice President Joe Biden (2nd from R, front)thanks members of U.S. forces at Yokota Air Base in Tokyo on Aug. 24, 2011, for their role in Operation Tomodachi which provided relief and recovery assistance in the wake of the March 11 earthquake and tsunami in northeastern Japan.

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U.S. Vice Pres. Biden visits quake-hit Miyagi Pref.

TOKYO, Japan - U.S. Vice President Joe Biden lays flowers in Natori, Miyagi Prefecture, on Aug. 23, 2011, in memory of the victims of the March 11 disaster. Biden became the highest-ranking U.S. official to travel to the disaster-hit northeast of Japan. (Pool Photo)

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U.S. Vice Pres. Biden in disaster-hit Sendai

SENDAI, Japan - U.S. Vice President Joe Biden delivers his speech in front of people affected by the March 11 earthquake and tsunami at Sendai airport in Miyagi Prefecture on Aug. 23, 2011. Biden said it was an honor for the U.S. forces to work together with Japan's Self-Defense Forces on relief operations.

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Tsunami landmark in Minamisanriku

MINAMISANRIKU, Japan - Photo taken on Aug. 11, 2011, shows the remains of a building housing the municipal government's disaster prevention headquarters in the town of Minamisanriku, Miyagi Prefecture, which was damaged by the March 11 tsunami. People continue to visit the building, which became a symbol of the tsunami damage, to commemorate the victims of the disaster.

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Nichidai Daisan wins national high school c'ship

NISHINOMIYA, Japan - Players celebrate as Tokyo's Nichidai Daisan High School beat Kosei Gakuin of Aomori Prefecture 11-0 in the final of the national high school baseball championship at Koshien Stadium in Nishinomiya, Hyogo Prefecture, on Aug. 20, 2011.

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Search continues in disaster-hit Rikuzentakata

RIKUZENTAKATA, Japan - Police officers from Okayama and Tottori prefectures, western Japan, search for the remains of people who have remained unaccounted for since the March 11 tsunami, in Osabe fishing port in Rikuzentakata, Iwate Prefecture in northeastern Japan, on Aug. 19, 2011. Over 4,500 people are still counted as missing more than five months after the disaster. ''We want to find them, even if it might be a bone fragment,'' said a leader of the police unit taking part in the search.

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Disaster-hit Japanese teenagers in Russian Far East

VLADIVOSTOK, Russia - Junior and senior high school students from the disaster-hit Japanese prefectures of Iwate and Miyagi pose for group photos after arriving at Vladivostok airport in the Russian Far East on Aug. 18, 2011. Their trip was made possible after Russian President Dmitry Medvedev's wife, Svetlana, proposed that children from areas devastated by the March 11 earthquake and tsunami be invited to Russia.

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Search continues in disaster-hit Rikuzentakata

RIKUZENTAKATA, Japan - Police officers from Okayama and Tottori prefectures, western Japan, search for the remains of people who have remained unaccounted for since the March 11 tsunami, in Osabe fishing port in Rikuzentakata, Iwate Prefecture in northeastern Japan, on Aug. 19, 2011. Over 4,500 people are still counted as missing more than five months after the disaster. ''We want to find them, even if it might be a bone fragment,'' said a leader of the police unit taking part in the search.

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Stranded freighter at Kamaishi port

KAMAISHI, Japan - File photo taken in July 2011 shows the 4,724-ton Panamanian-registered freighter Asia Symphony, which has been stranded on a dock at Kamaishi port in Iwate Prefecture since the March 11 tsunami. The freighter will be removed as early as October, local government sources said Aug. 18.

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Kamikaze attack in Russia after Japan's surrender in WWII

VLADIVOSTOK, Russia - Margarita Afanasieva in Vladivostok in the Russian Far East on Aug. 11, 2011, talks about a story she heard from her father regarding a Japanese fighter aircraft that was shot down during an attempted kamikaze attack on a Soviet oil tanker off Vladivostok port on Aug. 18, 1945, three days after Japan's surrender in World War II. Her father was an engineer on the tanker.

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Caviar farm in disaster-hit Kamaishi

TOKYO, Japan - Photo taken Aug. 9, 2011, shows a sturgeon farm to harvest caviar which was damaged by the March 11 earthquake and tsunami in Kamaishi, Iwate Prefecture. The company Kamaishi Caviar, known as the first to produce farmed caviar on a commercial basis in Japan, was disbanded as all sturgeons at its facilities died in the disaster.

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Engagement, wedding ring sales rise

SENDAI, Japan - Photo shows a jewelry shop inside a department store in Sendai, Miyagi Prefecture, northeastern Japan, on Aug. 6, 2011. Sales of engagement and wedding rings have increased sharply at major department stores in Sendai in the wake of the March 11 earthquake and tsunami, with many couples apparently buying them as a proof of ties deepened by the disaster.

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T-shirt of Hearn's book introducing word 'tsunami

MATSUE, Japan - Hisao Nakamura, president of Nakamura Chaho Corp., holds a T-shirt carrying an image of Lafcadio Hearn's 1897 book that introduced the word ''tsunami'' to the world, in Matsue, western Japan, on Aug. 11, 2011. The T-shirt project is aimed at supporting victims of the March earthquake and tsunami in northeastern Japan.