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Dai Ichi

A Postscript From Japan

Murray Fromson | Posted 06.13.2011 | World
Read More: Dai-Ichi, Japan Earthquake, Michiko, Emperor Hirohito, Akihito, Media, Japan, Japanese Emperor, World News
Murray Fromson

At the height of the crisis, the Emperor and Empress opened their hospital to those in need of medical emergency. They also opened their hot bath facilities in their summer palace to a nearby shelter.

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Akihito and Michiko

Murray Fromson | Posted 06.01.2011 | World
Read More: Dai-Ichi, Japan Earthquake, Emperor Hirohito, Douglas MacArthur, Japan, Michiko, Akihito, Japanese Emperor, World News
Murray Fromson

Only those of us who served in Japan in the 1950s might have shaken our heads after Thursday's frontpage photos in the New York Times that showed Emperor Akihito and Empress Michiko consoling evacuees.

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Japanese Government Warns Those Nearby Plant To Stay Indoors

AP/The Huffington Post | By ERIC TALMADGE and SHINO YUASA | Posted 05.25.2011 | World
Read More: Nuclear-Radiation, Fukushima, Japan Earthquake 2011, Daiichi, Nuclear Reactor, Sendai-Earthquake-2011, Tokyo, Chernobyl, Sendai, Dai-Ichi, Japan Earthquake, Tsunami, Japan Fukushima, Japan Tsunami, Japan Nuclear Reactor, Naoto Kan, Japan, Three Mile Island, World News

SOMA, Japan -- Dangerous levels of radiation leaking from a crippled nuclear plant forced Japan to order 140,000 people to seal themselves indoors Tue...

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