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05/08/2017 / By Amy Goodrich

Japan to “drop tanks” full of Fukushima nuclear waste directly into the ocean

Following a major earthquake in March 2011, a 15 meter-high tsunami ravaged the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant. Though the reactors immediately shut down after the quake, the giant wave that hit Fukushima’s shores disabled the emergency generators that power and operate the pumps that cool the reactors. The insufficient cooling resulted in the nuclear […]

02/24/2017 / By Vicki Batts

Fukushima residents being forced to move back to radioactive wasteland

Would you want to return home if it meant living in radioactive conditions similar to Chernobyl? Some 6,000 Japanese citizens are being urged by the government to return to their homes in the nuclear wasteland created by the Fukushima disaster. Greenpeace reports that radiation levels in the area are still similar to that of Chernobyl, […]

12/09/2016 / By Amy Goodrich

Japanese scientist claims eating ice cream for breakfast can make you more intelligent

Ice cream for breakfast, is it too good to be true? According to Yoshihiko Koga, a professor at Tokyo’s Kyorin University, it’s not. He claims that people who eat ice cream for breakfast have faster reaction times and are better at processing information, Excite News reported. Professor Yoshihiko Koga is an expert in psychophysiology which […]

12/02/2016 / By Mary Wilder

Japan hopes to get elderly drivers off the road by bribing them with ramen noodles

In one of the sillier stories of a historically silly year, Japanese authorities are now bribing elderly drivers to give up their driver’s licenses — in exchange for coupons that will lower the cost of ramen noodles. No, this is not an article from The Onion. This is happening in real life. Why would Japan […]

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