Olympic minister wants qualifiers in Fukushima Japan Sep. 29, 2015 - Updated 09:11 UTC-4 Japan's minister in charge of the Tokyo Olympic and Paralympic Games has asked that the qualifiers for newly added sports for the 2020 Games be held in Fukushima Prefecture. Toshiaki Endo made the request on Tuesday during a meeting with Yoshiro Mori, the head of the Tokyo organizing committee. The move comes after the committee decided to propose the addition of 5 sports to the Games. They are baseball and softball, karate, roller sports, sport climbing, and surfing. Endo told Mori that Fukushima was the region hardest hit by the 2011 earthquake and tsunami and the ensuing nuclear accident. He said the Fukushima governor has requested that the prefecture host some of the extra events, such as baseball and softball. Endo said he believes a number of qualifiers will be held, and that they could be based in Fukushima. He added that if qualifiers can be held in other regional areas as well, the Olympics and Paralympics will be an event for all of Japan. Mori indicated his intention to consider the request in a positive light. Death threat against student protester Japan Sep. 30, 2015 - Updated 05:53 UTC-4 A vocal critic of Japan's new security legislation is the target of a death threat. Meiji Gakuin University student Aki Okuda is a key member of a group opposed to the laws that were enacted this month. The university and other sources say another university received a letter addressed to Okuda on September 24th. It contained a threat to kill Okuda and his family members. Okuda and other students launched the protest group called Students Emergency Action for Liberal Democracy also known as SEALDs in May this year. SEALDs organized protests against the Japanese government's security legislation outside the Diet building. Okuda also appeared at a Diet hearing to share his views. Okuda said he has filed a complaint with police. He tweeted he did not understand why his family has been threatened in addition to himself. He said he would exercise caution because he did not want to be killed simply for expressing his opinion. Meiji Gakuin University said in a statement that it regards the threat as an unforgivable act against freedom of speech. The university is taking measures to ensure the safety of its students, teachers and officials. NRA criticizes Monju operator Nuclear & Energy Sep. 30, 2015 - Updated 07:06 UTC-4 Japan's nuclear regulatory authority will question the chief of the organization operating the country's fast-breeder reactor, following discoveries of a range of safety problems. In 2013, the Nuclear Regulation Authority ordered the Japan Atomic Energy Agency, the operator of the Monju prototype fast-breeder reactor, to enforce a virtual ban on test-runs. The order came because a large number of safety oversights had been found. Even after that, many safety issues have been discovered. A number of errors were found in the safety classifications of the equipment and devices at the reactor last month. NRA officials reported at a meeting on Wednesday that they were unable to grasp the exact nature of the problems, due to the operator's poor handling of the data. At the meeting, some NRA commissioners said nobody would trust the operator because there have been so many problems. NRA Chairman Shunichi Tanaka called the situation very serious. He said the matter would cast doubt on whether the operator is qualified to run the reactor. The authority has decided to ask the operator to submit a report on the latest problems by October 21st. They will also question the president of the operator Toshio Kodama about the management of his organization. NRA Chairman Tanaka later suggested at a news conference that the ban on test-runs for the Monju fast-breeder reactor would remain. The operator pledged to take seriously the regulator's request for a report and to continue to improve its procedures, putting the top priority on safety. 2-3 micro Sv / h on the parking lot cavity mud, Nasushiobara, Dec 2014 Published on Dec 23, 2014 by birdhairjp Source Video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O0l-2BSPzXw NBC: Radioactive debris on beach at California nuclear plant — Magazine: Bombshell report reveals radiation cover-up — Experts: “Unbelievable what they’re doing there”… “We still don’t know how high those levels were” (VIDEO) http://enenews.com/nbc-radioactive-debris-beach-california-nuclear-plant-magazine-bombshell-report-reveals-radiation-cover-experts-unbelievable-theyre-doing-dont-high-levels-video Groundwater Cs-134/137 density jumped up 260 percent beside Reactor 2 within only a week http://fukushima-diary.com/2015/09/groundwater-cs-134137-density-jumped-up-260-percent-beside-reactor-2-within-only-a-week/ 420 Bq/Kg of Cs-134/137 detected from mushroom sold on a shelf in Gunma

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