Mar 22 Watch Japanese Ambassador to U.S. on Quake Recovery, Nuclear Crisis Judy Woodruff talks to Japan's ambassador to the U.S., Ichiro Fujisaki, about repair efforts at the damaged Fukushima nuclear reactors and what lies ahead for Japan as it struggles to clean-up and rebuild after the devastating earthquake and tsunami. Continue watching
Mar 22 Access to Basics Improves, But Future Uncertain for Japan Evacuees By Talea Miller Japanese Red Cross volunteers hand out emergency kits at evacuation centers. Photo by Japanese Red Cross Society. Patrick Fuller, Asia Pacific communications manager for the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies spoke with the NewsHour Tuesday… Continue reading
Mar 22 Water Woes: Japan, Haiti and Kenya Among World’s Trouble Spots By Larisa Epatko In northeastern Japan, where people are still sifting through wreckage from the March 11 tsunami, more than a million households are without water. While in Haiti, health workers are scrambling to stave off a cholera epidemic. Still, in other parts… Continue reading
Mar 22 Power Lines Installed at Nuclear Plant All six reactors at the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear plant have been connected to power lines, although Tokyo Electric Power Company has said there are steps that need to be taken before it can safely turn the power… Continue reading
Mar 21 Watch Japan Works to Restore Reactors’ Power Supplies; Fear of Contaminated Food Rises Judy Woodruff talks to a former IAEA official about efforts to contain the crisis. Continue watching
Mar 21 Visualizing Japan’s Power Outages After Earthquake, Tsunami By Talea Miller 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… Continue reading
Mar 21 Why Weaken the Japanese Yen? The Conflicting Claims of Economics By Paul Solman Business correspondent Paul Solman answers questions from NewsHour viewers and readers on business and economic news most days on his Making Sen$e page. Here's Monday's query: From Thursday's NewsHour: "The Japanese yen settled near record highs against the… Continue reading
Mar 21 World Week Ahead: Libya Intervention; Radiation in Japan; World Water Day By Larisa Epatko It's a busy week for the foreign affairs desk. Here are the hot spots our foreign affairs team will be watching. Continue reading
Mar 21 Why Weaken the Japanese Yen? The Conflicting Claims of Economics By Elizabeth Shell From Thursday's NewsHour: "The Japanese yen settled near record highs against the U.S. dollar today, which make Japanese exports more expensive. Banks and finance ministers of the G7 are considering measures to decrease its value in order to help… Continue reading
Mar 21 Smoke Rises From Nuclear Reactors; Concerns Over Radiation in Food By Tom LeGro Smoke rose from two reactor units at the Fukushima Dai-ichi plant Monday, stopping work to reconnect power lines and fix cooling systems to Japan's nuclear complex damaged by the March 11 earthquake. What caused the smoke from Unit 3… Continue reading