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Promoting produce from Fukushima, a Tokyo store lists the cesium levels beside the price -- just one way life has changed a year after an earthquake, tsunami and nuclear accident struck Japan. In the final report in his series, Miles O'Brien examines food-safety concerns and a cottage industry of ...
// In the second installment of a three-part series on Japan's recovery, Miles O'Brien reports on Japanese residents who are struggling to clean up contaminated farms, roads and school yards after the massive earthquake, tsunami and resulting nuclear disaster struck Japan one year ago. Here's an ...
... Administration continues to track the rubble and urges others to do so to help focus cleanup efforts. The total amount of debris is unknown -- the Japanese government is fine-tuning its estimate of the amount that was generated and sank initially, said Ruth Yender, NOAA's Japan tsunami marine debris ...
JEFFREY BROWN: For those stations not taking a pledge break, we turn to Japan, still reeling from the earthquake and tsunami last March. Two thousand people were killed in the town of Minamisanriku. It was flattened, and is now abandoned. Alex Thomson of Independent Television News reported from ...
... t be anything like before. So that's the first priority, and, unless that's achieved, Kesennuma won't recover.ALEX THOMSON: Though some outside Japan may shed no tears, environmentalists targeted Kesennuma for years as the center of Japan's shark fishing industry. These days, though, there's talk ...
... Science page online. It's called Science Thursday. Each week, we will feature a fresh video, slide show or blog post. Tonight, find photos and a story about the fate of dogs and cats abandoned in the exclusion zone. Plus, Miles talked with Hari about his reporting trip to Japan.
... Daiichi nuclear plant, where they detected levels reaching the equivalent of six X-rays per day. He also filled us in on his conversations with Japanese officials working in evacuated areas and Japanese residents eager for more information about the consequences of the nuclear accident. Find more coverage on our ...
Tonight on the NewsHour, science correspondent Miles O'Brien reports on a grassroots group called Safecast that is crowdsourcing data on radiation contamination from locations around Japan. While in Tokyo, he spoke to Hari about his conversations with Safecast workers, Japanese officials and Japanese residents eager for more information about ...
While in Tokyo, Miles O'Brien talked to Hari about one little-known precedent to the March tsunami, how the Japanese people are uniquely approaching the effort to rebuild tsunami-devastated areas, and their changing approach to nuclear energy in its wake.
... toward making that a reality. This will be the first in a series of pieces from Miles that chart his month-long reporting trip through Japan. While in Tokyo, he talked to Hari Sreenivasan about one little-known, but comparable precedent to the March tsunami, how Japanese are uniquely approaching ...
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