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Fast Company Miles Kohrman	A Drone Takes You Inside The Ghost Town Abandoned After The Fukushima Nuclear Disaster Earlier this week, HEXaMedia, a Tokyo-based company specializing in multicopter aerial video and photography, released a seven-minute video with drone footage of the area.
Chemistry World January 9, 2014 Phillip Broadwith	Deadly explosion at Japanese silicon plant Five people have died and 12 more hospitalized after a heat exchanger exploded at a silicon products plant owned by Japanese firm Mitsubishi Materials.
Chemistry World November 8, 2013 Emily James	Japanese chemicals show signs of recovery The Japanese chemicals sector is showing signs of recovery, owing to reconstruction demand in the wake of the 2011 Tohoku earthquake and tsunami, as well as the government's bold new monetary and spending policies.
Chemistry World October 1, 2013 Emma Stoye	Japan confirms Novartis clinical trial data fabrication Japan's ministry of health has concluded that studies based on clinical trials for Novartis's blood pressure drug Diovan contain manipulated data. It is now investigating whether the company has broken Japanese law by citing these studies to promote the product.
Chemistry World June 7, 2013 Emma Stoye	Fukushima disaster has not raised cancer risks, says UN UN scientists have concluded that the Fukushima-Daiichi nuclear disaster is unlikely to push up cancer rates in Japan.
Registered Rep. March 25, 2013 Brad Zigler	Foreign Affairs Currency war? No. But you can still profit from the slide in the Yen.
Chemistry World March 5, 2013 Ned Stafford	Fukushima disaster predicted to raise cancer rates slightly Japan's 2011 Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster will put people living nearest to the nuclear power plant at a slightly elevated risk of cancer in the coming years.
Chemistry World January 25, 2013 Rebecca Brodie	Reassessing the health effects of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear accident While the Japanese tsunami of March 2011 was devastating in its own right, the long term health consequences because of the damage to the nuclear reactor at Fukushima Daiichi are also of serious concern.
IEEE Spectrum January 2013 John Boyd	Japan's Digital Grid Scheme Japanese consortium aims to transform the country's centralized grid into islands of interconnected cells
IEEE Spectrum November 2012 Eliza Strickland	Can Japan Phase Out Nuclear Power? The country wants to go nuclear-free, but many obstacles remain
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