Posts Tagged ‘ nuclear disaster ’

Japan Tourism Rides Out the Perfect Storm

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I?ve recently been fascinated with missions impossible in marketing. Here?s one: getting tourists to visit Japan ? a country that, little more than a year ago, has suffered a devastating earthquake and tsunami, combined with the worst nuclear disaster since Chernobyl. Now factor in that this country has one of the strongest currencies out...

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Japan Takes Control of Tepco in 10-Year Plan to Revive Profit

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Japan ’s government took control of Tokyo Electric Power Co. (9501) , the center of the Fukushima nuclear disaster, and agreed to provide 1 trillion yen ($12.5 billion), part of a bailout that is the nation’s largest since the rescue of the banking industry in the 1990s. (read more…)

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Japan shuts down last nuclear reactor – CNN

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Over the weekend, Japan's last nuclear reactor was shut down for regular maintenance. In the wake of the Fukushima nuclear disaster, reactors haven't been allowed back on. Japan is now the first major economy to see the modern era without nuclear power. (read more here…)

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Japan Nuclear Disaster: Crisis-Hit Country Mulls Shift To Renewable Energy

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TOKYO — Another long, stupefyingly hot summer is looming for Japan just as it shuts down its last operating nuclear power reactor, worsening a squeeze on electricity and adding urgency to calls for a green energy revolution. (more here…)

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VIDEO: Japan seeks new energy supplies

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As Japan turns away from nuclear power in the wake of last year's nuclear disaster, it is seeking new energy supplies from sources all around the world. (more…)

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Japan's Noda in Washington: Cherry Blossoms and Nuclear Disaster

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, April 30, 2012 (ENS) – Prime Minister of Japan Yoshihiko Noda pledged Sunday to make Japan-U.S. relations "bloom," expressing eagerness to enhance bilateral ties symbolized by the 100th-anniversary year of Tokyo's gift of 3,000 cherry trees to Washington, DC in 1912. (read the story…)

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