AND NOW FOR SOME GOOD NEWS
A jobless man from Shinjuku was arrested for breaking into the Daini Nuclear power plant in Fukushima and driving around “for about ten minutes.”Yasushi Nishiwaki, the biophysicist who examined crewmembers of a Japanese fishing boat who were exposed to radiation during a US hydrogen bomb test in the Bikini Atoll in 1954, died of pneumoniain Osaka at age 94.
Japan’s unemployment rate of 4.6 percent is the lowest it’s been in two years.
Meanwhile, industrial production in February surged 0.4 percent from the previous month.At the same time, retail sales rose 0.1 percent from a year earlier, which was a lot better than the 0.5 percent drop that many economists had predicted.
Stats
¥1 billion
Total revenue the TMG is hoping to raise via a “reconstruction lottery” later in the year, according to the Daily Yomiuri1 million
Cases of mineral water that Coca Cola Japan said was planning to import from South Korea to meet increasing domestic demand30 percent
Portion of their monthly salaries that Diet members have agreed to sacrifice for the next six months¥2 billion
Amount of money that the pay cut will raise for quake relief efforts
OH, THAT EXPLAINS IT
An English professor at Kagawa University who beat up a woman on a train said he did it because she “stood on my foot and didn’t apologize.”
The Grand Prince Hotel Akasaka, originally built in 1954 and renovated in 1983 by famed architect Kenzo Tange, will be demolished to make way for an office complex.
An experimental “black box” aboard the Kounotori 2 spacecraft, which helped resupply the International Space Station, not only was able to record data as the satellite reentered the earth’s atmosphere, but survived impact in the Pacific Ocean “and continued to transmit data for hours as it bobbed… between Chile and New Zealand.”
It was reported that Toyota’s 4,900m2 pavilion at this week’s Shanghai International Auto Show will include “60 sets of technology demonstration vehicles and objects.”
The Supreme Court said that three death row inmates who murdered four men in Osaka, Aichi and Gifu prefectures in 1994 should face the gallows even though they were minors at the time of the killings.
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Government considering plan to dismantle TEPCO
2011/04/16
BY YASUAKI OSHIKA ASAHI SHIMBUN WEEKLY AERA
A secret plan to dismantle Tokyo Electric Power Co. (TEPCO), the operator of the crippled Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant, is circulating within the government.The proposal, which is associated with a faction of bureaucrats who have long supported liberalization of Japan’s power industry, envisages the passing of a special measures law that would put the company under close government supervision before eventually bankrupting it and completely restructuring its remnants.
There are also proposals to smash the company’s powerful influence on politicians and the mass media and force executives to give all their pay and severance settlements to victims of the earthquake.
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