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"Typhoon Roke brought evacuation orders, downpours and fears of floods to southern Japan today as it began to traverse the country on a course towards the crippled Fukushima Dai-Ichi nuclear plant." "More than 1 million people in Nagoya city in central Japan have been advised to evacuate because of Roke, Kyodo News reported." "Roke, due in Fukushima prefecture in 48 hours, may hinder work to control leakage of water into the basements of the Dai- Ichi reactor buildings, which contained 102 million liters of radioactive water as of Sept. 13, according to Tokyo Electric estimates."

"What makes this Monday so remarkable is that for the first time in four decades, none of the energy is derived from a nuclear reactor... Before the Fukushima disaster, Japan relied on nuclear for about 30% of its energy. As reactors have come off-line, the country has increased its imports of fossil fuels."

Japan found a new alternate energy!

Hindell, Juliet, "International: Single Women in Japan woo their Valentines with a bridal message", Sunday Telegraph [London], 14 February 1999, Online, Lexis-Nexis Academic Universe, 22 Mar 1999. Iwao, Sumiko, The Japanese Woman: Traditional Image and Changing Reality, Harvard University Press: Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1994.

"...the death toll from the worst typhoon to hit the country in seven years climbed to 26..."

Breakdown of plastic waste in the average japanese household.

When it comes to gender equality, Japan has no shortage of distressing figures. The statistics that are most often used to illustrate the nation's dismal status in this respect are the United Nations Development Program's Gender Empowerment Measure (GEM), which gauges equality by tracking women's participation in politics and business.

This is a more accurate article about the tuna that carry radiation from the Fukushima disaster. The radiation is "Not a public health concern" according to scientists.