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Connecting Toxic Memories: Hiroshima and Nuremberg

20Aug

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Human Rights, Japan, USA

Connecting Toxic Memories: Hiroshima and Nuremberg

BY RICHARD FALK Photograph Source: George R. Caron – Public Domain 77 Years After Hiroshima and Nagasaki Peace activists around the world often choose August 6th and 9th each year to grieve anew the human suffering and devastation caused by dropping atomic bombs on the undefended Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, which lacked military significance. Among other things these atomic attacks were ‘geopolitical crimes’ of ultimate terror, with scant combat justification, and intended mainly as a warning to Soviet leaders not to defy the West in the peace diplomacy at the end of World War II. These August dates marking the utter destruction of these two cities are treated as events giving rise to what has been widely known as the nuclear age. This awful beginn...

August 6 and 9, 1945: Two Days that Shook the World…and the Earth

14Aug

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August 6 and 9, 1945: Two Days that Shook the World…and the Earth

BY DAVE LINDORFF Image by Oliver Grant. Back in March 1976, while working as a young journalist for the Evening Outlook, a conservative family-owned daily paper published until 1998 in Santa Monica, California, I wrote an article about people who had bomb shelters on their property in that otherwise laid-back beachfront city on the western edge of Los Angeles. I was able to discover the locations of these Cold War artifacts because Santa Monica had required a special building permit for bomb shelters, and the records for those permits had their own separate file. There was also, back in those pre-computer days, something called a reverse phone directory, a staple of newspapers that allowed a journalist to look up an address and obtain the phone number linked to it. As...

11Jul

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Japan

Japan: Not responsible

By: beyondnuclearinternational Japanese Supreme Court exonerates government from blame for Fukushima nuclear disaster Statement by attorney Kimiko Fukutake, published by Citizens’ Nuclear Information Center On June 17, 2022, the Supreme Court of Japan put an end to the four lawsuits filed by the evacuees of the Fukushima nuclear disaster in Fukushima, Gunma, Chiba, and Ehime prefectures. The sole point of dispute in these lawsuits was whether the Japanese government, which did not exert regulatory authority on the utility company, Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings (TEPCO), for the implementation of measures against tsunamis, is liable to compensate for damages according to Paragraph 1, Article 1 of the Law Concerning State Liability for Compensation. The top cou...

Japan’s Toxic Dumping Faces Growing Protests

3May

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Japan’s Toxic Dumping Faces Growing Protests

BY ROBERT HUNZIKER Photograph Source: IAEA Imagebank – https://www.flickr.com/photos/iaea_imagebank/11083570446/ – CC BY-SA 2.0 The Japanese government’s decision one year ago to dump radioactive water from Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant storage tanks into the Pacific Ocean, starting in the spring of 2023, is facing increasing pressure to back off, especially in light of the facts that not only is it illegal but also morally reprehensible as well as a despicable disregard for the lifeblood of the ocean. Meanwhile, in a startling maneuver indicative of desperation to convince citizens of its true worthiness, the Japanese government is using mind control tactics reminiscent of Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World (Chatto & Windus, 1932), which depicts harmful effects...

Will Japan and Russia Tensions Over Contested Pacific Islands Spill Over Into War?

17Apr

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Japan, Russia

Will Japan and Russia Tensions Over Contested Pacific Islands Spill Over Into War?

BY VIJAY PRASHAD Disputed islands in question: Habomai Islands, Shikotan, Kunashiri (Kunashir) and Etorofu (Iturup) – Public Domain Each year, Japan’s Foreign Ministry releases a Diplomatic Bluebook, a guide to the government’s views on the world. Kyodo News, a reputed Japanese wire service, reports that the 2022 Bluebook will have strong language against Russia. This Bluebook will be released to the public before the end of April, but Kyodo News’ reporters have seen a leaked text. The text that the news agency has seen has not been finally vetted by the government of Japan’s Prime Minister Fumio Kishida. Two startling changes appear in this draft text. First, the Bluebook refers to the Russian control over some islands north of Hokkaido as an “illegal occ...

North Korea conducts its largest ballistic missile test: S Korea, Japan

24Mar

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Japan, North Korea

North Korea conducts its largest ballistic missile test: S Korea, Japan

By VT Press TV: North Korea has conducted what is suspected to be its largest intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) test, South Korea and Japan said. South Korea’s Joint Chiefs of Staff said on Thursday it detected the launch of an “unidentified projectile” from North Korea. Japan’s government also reported the launch, and said it could be a ballistic missile. It would be the first full-capability launch of the North’s largest missiles since 2017, and represents a major step in the country’s development of weapons that could potentially deliver nuclear warheads anywhere in the United States. Japanese authorities said the launch appeared to be a “new type” of ICBM that flew for about 71 minutes to an altitude of about 6,000km (3,728 miles) and a range of 1,100km (...

17Jan

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Fukushima Takes a Turn for the Worse

BY ROBERT HUNZIKER Photograph Source: IAEA Imagebank – CC BY 2.0 Tokyo Electric Power Company-TEPCO- has been attempting to decommission three nuclear meltdowns in reactors No. 1 No. 2, and No. 3 for 11 years now. Over time, impossible issues grow and glow, putting one assertion after another into the anti-nuke coffers. The problems, issues, enormous danger, and ill timing of deconstruction of a nuclear disaster is always unexpectedly complicated by something new. That’s the nature of nuclear meltdowns, aka: China Syndrome debacles. As of today, TEPCO is suffering some very serious setbacks that have “impossible to deal with” written all over the issues. Making all matters nuclear even worse, which applies to the current mess at Fukushima’s highly toxic scenario, G...

Japan-US ‘Island Chain’ Will Roil China, Russia

4Jan

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China, Japan, Russia

Japan-US ‘Island Chain’ Will Roil China, Russia

The recent disclosure by Kyodo News of a joint US-Japan joint operation plan to set up an attack base along the Nansei island chain will most certainly draw a backlash. M.K. Bhadrakumar Warship formations of China and Russia sailed through the Tsugaru Strait in northern Japan on October 18, 2021 (File photo) A Kyodo News agency report last Friday cited Japanese government sources to the effect that Tokyo and Washington have drawn up a draft joint operation plan that would enable the setup of an attack base along the Nansei island chain in Japan’s southwest in the event of a Taiwan contingency. According to the report, the forthcoming “2+2” ministerial of foreign and defence chiefs of the US and Japan on January 7 in Washington is expected to “fo...

Mythmaking and the Atomic Destruction of Hiroshima and Nagasaki

28Aug

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Japan, USA

Mythmaking and the Atomic Destruction of Hiroshima and Nagasaki

BY JACQUES R. PAUWELS Photograph Source: ENERGY.GOV – Public Domain Myth: The war in the Far East only ended in the summer of 1945, when the US president and his advisors felt that, to force the fanatical Japanese to surrender unconditionally, they had no other option than to destroy not one but two cities, Hiroshima and Nagasaki, with atom bombs. This decision saved the lives of countless Americans and Japanese who would have perished if the war had continued and required an invasion of Japan. Reality: Hiroshima and Nagasaki were destroyed to prevent the Soviets from making a contribution to the victory against Japan, which would have forced Washington to allow Moscow to participate in the postwar occupation and reconstruction of the country. It was also the intention to int...

Blinded by the Light: Remembering Hiroshima and Nagasaki in the Age of Normalized Violence

28Aug

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Japan, USA

Blinded by the Light: Remembering Hiroshima and Nagasaki in the Age of Normalized Violence

BY HENRY GIROUX Detail from a U.S. Air Force map of Hiroshima, pre-bombing, circles drawn at 1,000 foot intervals radiating out from ground zero, the site directly under the explosion. (U.S. National Archives and Records Administration). On Monday August 6, 1945, the United States unleashed an atomic bomb on Hiroshima killing 140,000 people instantly. 70% of the city was destroyed. A few days later on August 9th, another atomic bomb was dropped on Nagasaki killing an estimated 70,000 people.[2] The Japanese government stated that the death toll was much higher than the American estimates, indicating that it was close to a half million. Many died not only because of lack of medical help, but also from radioactive rain. In the immediate aftermath, the incineration...