Archive for the ‘japan’ Category

Japan rocked by major earthquake, spills radioactive water into Ocean

Monday, July 16th, 2007

Meanwhile the Seattle Times AP wire reports "world's most powerful nuclear power plant and causing a reactor to spill radioactive water into the sea - an accident not reported to the public for hours."Read the full story

Typhoon kills three, heads out to Pacific | The Japan Times Online

Monday, July 16th, 2007

A missing man was found dead Sunday, bringing the death toll from Typhoon Man-yi to three as the storm passed south of Tokyo and moved out over the Pacific Ocean. The 79-year-old man who went missing the night before was discovered in a river in Yoshinogawa, Tokushima Prefecture, police and rescue ...