WASHINGTON TIMES March 21, 2011 The West’s slow-motion demographic tsunami We can thank Providence that the earthquake was not 150 miles closer to Tokyo, else Japan’s dead might number in the millions. Prime Minister Naoto Kan calls it the worst crisis since World War II. Yet, horrendous as it is, it does not, thus far,
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Dangerous breach suspected at Japanese nuke plant Published March 24, 2011 | Associated Press A suspected breach in the reactor core at one unit of a stricken Fukushima nuclear plant could mean more serious radioactive contamination, Japanese officials said Friday, revealing what may prove a major setback in the mission to bring the leaking plant
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MARCH 19, 2011 Into the time machine to see how a major company coped with its black swans By HOLMAN W. JENKINS, JR. The following memo was unearthed as part of the litigation, now entering its 50th year, over the Great Japan Nuclear Incident of 2011. Addressed to General Electric’s then-CEO Jeff Immelt, the memo
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MARCH 15, 2011, 11:55 A.M. ET Damage Spreads to Fourth Reactor; Prime Minister Warns of Radiation Release, Tells Residents in 18-Mile Zone to Stay Indoors By YUKA HAYASHI And PHRED DVORAK Confusion and panic levels are rising across Japan following another blast and fire in Fukushima. WSJ’s Mariko Sanchanta and Yumiko Ono separate fact from
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MARCH 14, 2011, 9:20 A.M. ET By PHRED DVORAK And ATSUKO FUKASE in TokyoAnd ERIC BELLMAN in Sendai Agence France-Presse/Getty ImagesJapanese sailors rescue Hiromitsu Shinkawa Sunday, two days after the 60-year-old was washed to sea on the roof of his Minamisoma home by a tsunami caused by a powerful earthquake. Thousands are feared dead. Japan’s
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FOX NEWS Stricken Japan Nuclear Plant Rocked by Second Blast Published March 14, 2011 | Associated Press AP March 12: This image provided by the U.S. Navy shows the Nimitz-class aircraft carrier, USS Ronald Reagan underway in the Pacific Ocean en route to Japan to render humanitarian assistance and disaster relief. SOMA, Japan — The
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BRIAN T. KENNEDY is president of the Claremont Institute and publisher of the Claremont Review of Books. He has written on national security affairs and California public policy issues in National Review, the Wall Street Journal, Investor’s Business Daily, and other national newspapers. He sits on the Independent Working Group on Missile Defense and is
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