Friday, March 18, 2011

Japan In Crisis -- News Updates March 18-19, 2011



Fleeing Continues as Japan Raises Its Nuclear Threat Level -- Time Magazine

The five Buddhist monks hurried toward the gleaming bullet train, their wooden sandals click-clacking on the platform, their pale gray robes fluttering in their wake. For two days, they had slowly made their way from their mountainous monastery in Fukushima prefecture, not far from the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear-power plant, to the city of Niigata, which serves as a regional transportation hub.

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More News On Japan's Earthquake/Nuclear Disaster

Japan battles nuclear, humanitarian crisis -- Yahoo News/AFP
Japanese fend for themselves as aid trickles in -- Yahoo News/AP
A week after quake, Japan's leader vows to rebuild -- Yahoo News/AP
Magnitude of disaster to test Japan's mettle anew -- CNN
U.S. Marines' Aid Builds Slowly in Japan -- Wall Street Journal
Crisis Triggers an Exodus From Tokyo -- Wall Street Journal
Japanese survivors cling to hope as aid trickles in -- USA Today
Food shortage misery for tsunami survivors in Japan -- BBC

Japan raises nuclear alert level -- BBC
The moment nuclear plant chief WEPT as Japanese finally admit that radiation leak is serious enough to kill people -- The Daily Mail
Japan owns up: Nuclear crisis has now reached deadly level -- Daily News
Japan storage pools big worry: U.S. nuclear expert -- Reuters
Japan weighs need to bury nuclear plant; tries to restore power -- Yahoo News/Reuters
Interview: Japan crisis is much worse than Three Mile Island -- Yahoo News/Reuters
"Chernobyl solution" may be last resort for Japan reactors -- Reuters
Experts Knock Notion Of Burying Japanese Reactors -- NPR/AP
Special Report: Radiation fears may be greatly exaggerated -- Reuters

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