For the second time in three harrowing days, a hydrogen explosion at one of Japan’s crippled reactors at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant blew the roof off a containment building — this time on Monday morning at reactor unit No.
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Japan One Month Later: Elusive Royals Out of Seclusion to Help Victims
Apart from some miracle rescues, Japan has seen little good news in the month since catastrophe struck.
Search for Radiation Leak Turns Desperate in Japan
— Workers used a milky bathwater dye Monday as they frantically tried to trace the path of radioactive water seeping into the ocean from Japan’s tsunami-damaged nuclear plant. The crack in a maintenance pit discovered over the weekend was the latest confirmation that radioactivity continues to spill into the environment.
The Day the Earth Moved
The 9.0 quake that hit Japan on March 11 was powerful enough to shift the earth on its axis and make it spin a little faster, shortening the day by 1.8 millionths of a second. It shoved the island nation one parking space to the east
Japan Disaster Drives Oil Below $100
Oil prices dropped below $100 a barrel Monday after a massive earthquake and tsunami devastated northeastern Japan, denting demand for crude from the world’s third-largest economy.
The Market’s Disaster Drill
Markets can be merciless, bloodlessly processing available information to price assets appropriately.
10 Questions for Yuko Yamaguchi
Did you ever imagine that Hello Kitty would be big worldwide? Maya Castro, Miami No, not at all
Japan’s Earthquake and Tsunami Warning System Explained
Just after 2:46 p.m.
Why Japan’s Latest Attempt to Boost its Economy Won’t Work
After weeks of calls by the Japanese government to do something about deflation and the fast appreciating yen, the Bank of Japan held an emergency meeting Tuesday — and decided what the world’s second largest economy needs is more money. Central bank governor Masaaki Shirakawa announced steps to step up monetary easing by injecting 10 trillion yen into Japan’s financial system.
Japan’s jobless rate declines
Japan’s unemployment rate fell to 5.3 percent in September, the government reported on Friday.