Posts Tagged ‘ japan ’

Radioactive Lessons Not Learned

Radioactive Lessons Not Learned

April 14, 2011

One of the greatest speeches I ever attended that to this day has an immense impact on how I look at the world, was given by Dr. Helen Caldicott at William Paterson University of New Jersey.  It was the late 1990's, I was in the middle of my college...

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ctrp374 Aftershocks of Various forms in Japan

ctrp374 Aftershocks of Various forms in Japan

April 11, 2011

Several weeks following our initial interview with Karamoon following the Earthquake-Tsumani and subsequent Nuclear Accident in Japan; we're back again to do an update. Together we discuss the Japanese media, food supply, the rescue-emergency workers, and the behavior of the nuclear industry since this disaster. Once again you can support...

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Japan: The Survival Plan

Japan: The Survival Plan

March 16, 2011

You may think the media and the social networks have told you all that needs to be known about conditions on the ground in Japan, but hearing it first hand gives you a far greater understanding.  In the days following the massive earthquake and tsunami, Karamoon contacted me from...

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ctrp339 Sharing Culture in Japan

ctrp339 Sharing Culture in Japan

June 8, 2010

Yuuki Aki is no ordinary Japanese writer. He's been living and writing an issue that many westerners wouldn't believe would be so contreversial in such a modern place: room sharing. In an unexpected podcast conversation, Aki takes us to post-war Japan where the country adopted a tradition of renting only...

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Cat Interlude

Cat Interlude

May 27, 2010

Greetings once again from the neon streets of Tokyo. The TBLI conference is in full swing here and that means yours truely is working hard to make sure technology works during this two day event. Therefore I shall interrupt the serious citizen journalism with a little interlude worthy of...

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