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    Water Woes: Japan, Haiti and Kenya Among World's Trouble Spots

    Mar 22, 2011 02:00 PM EDT

    ... of clean water supply and sanitation with William Fellows, UNICEF's global water, sanitation and hygiene cluster coordinator. JAPAN: Waterless households on the rise FELLOWS: Japan is a disaster is on top of a disaster. Right now, there are about 1.8 million households in Japan that do not have ...

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    Japan Works to Restore Reactors' Power Supplies; Fear of Contaminated Food Rises

    Mar 22, 2011 12:01 AM EDT

    Smoke billowed anew Monday from two of the Japanese nuclear reactors damaged in the earthquake and tsunami disaster. Judy Woodruff talks to a former IAEA official about efforts to contain the crisis. ... GWEN IFILL: Engineers in Japan pressed forward today with efforts to restore power to a crippled nuclear plant ...

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    Visualizing Japan's Power Outages After Earthquake, Tsunami

    Mar 21, 2011 07:12 PM EDT

    Power losses on March 12 indicated in red. Image courtesy NOAA National Geophysical Data Center. The massive earthquake and tsunami that struck Japan on March 11 decimated villages along the northeastern coast and knocked out power to a vast swath of the country. To determine how severe the power outage ...

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    Why Weaken the Japanese Yen? The Conflicting Claims of Economics

    Mar 21, 2011 03:36 PM EDT

    ... form of food and fossil fuels. (Pearl Harbor was in fact triggered by the U.S. denial of oil to Japan, a denial triggered by Japan's invasion of China, an invasion triggered in part by Japan's desire for nearby raw materials.) But if Japan's companies go under ...

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    World Week Ahead: Libya Intervention; Radiation in Japan; World Water Day

    Mar 21, 2011 02:08 PM EDT

    ... a courageous stand against a regime determined to brutalize its own citizens," the president said in Rio de Janeiro. Read: President Obama's full speech JAPAN | On the other side of the globe in Japan, authorities made some progress in keeping the six reactors cool at the Fukushima Dai-ichi ...

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    In China, Sympathy for Japan, But Worries Over Radiation

    Mar 19, 2011 12:14 AM EDT

    From Beijing, Jeffrey Kaye reports on China's concerns over the nuclear radiation threat from the damaged Japanese reactors and sympathy for their neighbor reeling from a devastating natural disaster. ... RAY SUAREZ: In China, Japan's biggest neighbor, there is both worry and sympathy. Special correspondent Jeffrey Kaye has been ...

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    Japan Marks Moment of Silence for Victims as Battle to Cool Reactors Continues

    Mar 19, 2011 12:11 AM EDT

    ... and tsunami, were beyond anything it ever planned for. And Prime Minister Naoto Kan appealed for unity in the face of staggering loss. NAOTO KAN, Japanese prime minister (through translator): This is the worst crisis Japan has faced, and we are now being tested. Japan, in its past history, built ...

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    Japan's Crises: A Critical First Week

    Mar 18, 2011 11:30 PM EDT

    It's been one week since the most powerful earthquake ever recorded in Japan unleashed a devastating tsunami. The twin disasters caused major damage to a nuclear power plant in northeastern Japan, adding a brewing nuclear crisis to the country's woes. We look back at Japan's difficult week ...

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    Photo Essay: Destruction in Japan

    Mar 18, 2011 09:38 PM EDT

    A look at the aftermath of a 9.0-magnitude earthquake and tsunami that devastated northern Japan and damaged nuclear reactors.

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    Beyond Japan: Nuclear Energy's Future

    Mar 18, 2011 08:25 PM EDT

    Hari interviews NewsHour Science Correspondent Miles O'Brien on nuclear safety.