The city in Nagasaki Pref decides not to request a government survey of a nuclear waste site.

Wednesday, the mayor of Tsushima, a city in southwestern Japan, announced his decision not to apply to the state for a preliminary survey to determine the city's suitability to host an underground disposal site for highly radioactive refuse from nuclear power production.

"There...

The court has denied aid applications for the children of Nagasaki A-bomb survivors

A Japanese court on Monday dismissed a damages action filed by the children of Nagasaki atomic bomb survivors seeking government financial assistance.

The Nagasaki District Court decided that the state's refusal to provide help to so-called second-generation hibakusha, who were born...

Japanese University teams up with Koycera Corp to design Energy Harvesting Smart Buoy

Highlights

•  The Buoy can generate power on its own to collect information
• This device has its own GPS system, two tracking devices and sensors

The Japanese Nagasaki University collaborated with Koycera Corp for the development o...

SMUGGLED GOLD VALUED AT $610,261 CONFISCATED BY NAGASAKI CUSTOMS AUCTIONED

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• Smuggled gold valued at $610,261 confiscated by Nagasaki customs auctioned.
• Around 9.33 kgs of pure gold bars were confiscated by the customs office.
• The customs put the confiscated gold for general competitive bidding.

NAGASAKI CITY ASSEMBLY URGES JAPAN GOVT. TO SIGN AND RATIFY U.N NUCLEAR BAN TREATY

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• Nagasaki city assembly urges Japan Govt. to sign and ratify U.N nuclear ban treaty.
• The central govt. has been urged to attend meetings of the member states of the nuclear ban treaty.
• The local assembly seeks that nuclea...

JAPAN ANNOUNCES TO NOT JOIN THE U.N TREATY FOR THE BAN OF NUCLEAR WEAPONS

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• Japan announces to not join the U.N treaty for the ban of nuclear weapons.
• Chief Cabinet Secretary of Japan Katsunobu Kato announced the same.
• U.N announced The Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons is set to ente...

ATOMIC BOMB SURVIVORS ARE NOT HAPPY WITH ABE’S INDIFFERENCE OVER NUCLEAR WEAPON MATTERS

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• Atomic bomb survivors are not happy with Abe’s indifference over nuclear weapons matter.
• Shinzo Abe was present in Nagasaki to attend the anniversary of the nuclear bombings.
• He did not visit the Nagasaki Atomic Bo...

KAZUO ISHIGURO DELIVERS A SPECIAL MESSAGE ON THE 75TH ANNIVERSARY OF NAGASAKI BOMBINGS

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• Kazuo Ishiguro delivers a special message on the 75th anniversary of Nagasaki bombings.
• He mentioned about the ‘supreme value’ of human life in the message.
• The writer was born nine years after the 1945 bombin...

SHINZO ABE TO TAKE PART IN HIROSHIMA, NAGASAKI’S PEACE MEMORIAL CEREMONIES

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• Shinzo Abe to take part in Hiroshima, Nagasaki’s peace memorial ceremonies.
• This will be the 75th anniversary of the U.S atomic bombings in the cities.
• The U.S embassy in Japan will also take part in the ceremony.<...

UNINFECTED CREW ABOARD COSTA ATLANTICA TO BE PACKED OFF HOME

Some of the crew aboard an Italian cruise ship moored for repairs at Nagasaki Port in southwestern Japan have tested negative for the novel coronavirus.

They will be sent home as early as this week, the vessel's operator said Monday.

According to Costa Cruises' Japanes...

Nagasaki looks forward to the visit by the pope

Pope Francis intends to begin his official tour to Japan from Nagasaki. This is only appropriate considering how it is the city where Christianity was first introduced to the nation and where, about 500 years later, there still lingers the blood-drenched symbolism, political and religious both.

Some of the Marshall Islands are 10 to 1000 times more radioactive than Fukushima & Chernobyl

A new study revealed that in the Pacific Ocean, some of the Marshall Islands like Enewetak atolls and Bikini atoll are still more radioactive than Fukushima and Chernobyl, although over 60 years have passed since the U.S. tested radioactive weapons there. It was found by the researchers while the...