Fukushima Reactor Cleanup is Still Hilarious Comedy of Errors
by Mike OaklandThe Tokyo Electric Power Co. (TEPCO) announced yet another problem in the ongoing three ring circus that is their Fukushima Daiichi nuclear reactor cleanup effort.“Now with more mutant...
View ArticleVideo: Uncensored Footage from Fukushima “No-Go Zone”
You can always count on Vice Magazine to provide some hard-hitting, provocative, but honest reporting that other magazines and news outlets don’t want to touch.Case in point: This video documenting...
View ArticleMasao Yoshida, Fukushima Hero, Dies at 58
Masao Yoshida, the man who prevented a full-scale nuclear meltdown during the Fukushima crisis has sadly passed away due to cancer at age 58. Yoshida risked his life, long-term health and his career by...
View ArticleMeet “Fukuppy”: The Unfortunately-Named New Mascot of Fukushima Industries
Freezer and water treatment company Fukushima Industries either made a huge mistake or a brilliant PR move this weekend when they revealed their new macot’s name…Everybody, meet Fukuppy:Translation:...
View ArticleTEPCO Using Unskilled Labourers to Carry Out Dangerous Fukushima Clean-up
While the world looks on in concern, recent revelations suggest that our Japanese overlords TEPCO aren’t too worried by the possible consequences of mistakes during the decommissioning of the Fukushima...
View ArticleVideos: Vice Documentaries on Japanese Subculture
We realised that – with some effort – it’s possible that you may have watched the entire series of House of Cards and Arrested Development since we provided a guide to watching Netflix and other...
View ArticleTEPCO Announces Profits of $4.3 Billion for 2013
Three years on from the March 11th earthquake and the resulting triple meltdown at TEPCO’s Fukushima No. 1 Nuclear Power Plant, almost half of the 300,000 people displaced from the 12-mile evacuation...
View ArticleVideo: Japanese Regions Do Pharrell’s “Happy”
It’s been six months since Pharrell released the infectious “Happy” but it’s still all over the radio and the remade videos haven’t yet stopped coming. Whether you still haven’t quite satisfied your...
View ArticleVICE Report: Is the Japanese Government Lying About the Effects of the...
As much as we’d love to do our own hard-hitting investigative journalism from time to time, some guys running a humorous Japan news site from their host families’ sheds simply don’t have the resources...
View Article‘Save the Memory’ Returns 90,000 Lost Photographs to 3/11 Disaster Victims
When something happens to your home and your possessions are lost, modern day insurance policies mean that the only real losses are items of sentimental value (except that life-sized storm trooper...
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