Ishihara visits candidate town for radioactive waste storage

Ishihara visits candidate town for radioactive waste storage

IWAKI, Japan - Environment Minister Nobuteru Ishihara (L) greets attendees at a town meeting of Futaba, Fukushima Prefecture, northeastern Japan, on Aug. 26, 2014. Futaba is one of two candidate towns for the temporary storage of contaminated soil accumulated in cleanup work for the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant.

SDP picks new leader

SDP picks new leader

TOKYO, Japan - Tadatomo Yoshida (L), a House of Councillors member, shakes hands with Taiga Ishikawa, an assemblyman in Tokyo's Toshima Ward, after Yoshida beat Ishikawa in a two-candidate race to choose the leader of the small opposition Social Democratic Party in Tokyo on Oct. 14, 2013.

Japan professor awarded for AIDS treatment findings

Japan professor awarded for AIDS treatment findings

KAGOSHIMA, Japan - Photo taken May 20, 2013, shows Masanori Baba, a professor at Kagoshima University in Kagoshima City, Kagoshima Prefecture, who won an award from the Washington-based International Society for Antiviral Research earlier that month for his discovery of two candidate substances for anti-AIDS drugs.

Maltese candidate parties hold final mass rally before election

STORY: Maltese candidate parties hold final mass rally before election DATELINE: March 26, 2022 LENGTH: 00:02:28 LOCATION: Valletta CATEGORY: POLITICS SHOTLIST: 1. various of mass rally of the Labour Party led by Prime Minister Robert Abela 2. various of mass rally of the Nationalist Party led by Bernard Grech STORYLINE: Malta's two candidate parties, the Labour Party and the Nationalist Party, on Thursday evening held their final mass rally respectively in Attard and Valletta, before the general election which is scheduled on Saturday. This will be the first time that Maltese Prime Minister Robert Abela leads the Labour Party into an election after replacing Joseph Muscat following the political crisis that unfolded at the end of 2019 and which finally led to Muscat's resignation. The Labour Party is leading in the political surveys by a significant margin with the opposition Nationalist Party failing to make any remarkable inroads, according to some media reports. Malta uses the single transferable vo

Ishihara visits candidate town for radioactive waste storage

Ishihara visits candidate town for radioactive waste storage

IWAKI, Japan - Environment Minister Nobuteru Ishihara (L) greets attendees at a town meeting of Futaba, Fukushima Prefecture, northeastern Japan, on Aug. 26, 2014. Futaba is one of two candidate towns for the temporary storage of contaminated soil accumulated in cleanup work for the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant. (Kyodo)