OKUMA, Japan — A decade ago, a massive tsunami crashed into the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant. Three of its reactors melted down, leaving it looking like a bombed-out factory. Emergency workers risked their lives trying to keep one of history’s worst nuclear crises from spiraling out of control. Proper equipment has now replaced ragged […]
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UNITED WE STAND: Japanese endure as nuclear-power crisis escalates
At first, I thought it was just the usual rattle we constant get. Japanese people are accustomed to earthquakes as faults run beneath the archipelago. It’s not unusual for us to wake up in the middle of the night because of such shakes. I remember we constantly had evacuation drills at school. Sometimes, as a […]