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It is now indisputable that Gen. He Weidong has been purged, three months after he disappeared from public view, sparking a torrent of speculation within and outside China.
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- The Mainichi
Osaka group protests Sanseito leader's use of anti-Korean slur in election speech
OSAKA -- A nonprofit Korean organization here has sent a letter of protest to minor opposition party Sanseito after its leader Sohei Kamiya used a slur against Koreans during a stump speech for the House of Councillors election. The Korea NGO Center, an Osaka-based incorporated nonprofit organization working to ensure the rights of foreign nationals in Japan and bring about an inclusive society, filed the protest July 18 following Kamiya's use of "chon," a pejorative term for people from the Korean Peninsula. The center is demanding that the party announce how it perceives the case and issue an apology. During a street speech in Yokkaichi, Mie Prefecture, on July 18, Kamiya refuted criticism against Sanseito's proposal for a new Constitution, saying, "We are being derided, being called idiots, stupid and chon." Immediately afterward, he said, "You can cut that," and stated, "I'm sorry. I amend that." In its letter of protest, the center pointed out, "It is obvious that (Kamiya) made the remark while understanding that it is a discriminatory word." The letter denounced Sanseito for repeatedly "making clearly factually inaccurate claims that foreigners are treated more favorably than Japanese," adding, "It has been campaigning in a way that leads voters who harbor a sense of anxiety about society today to support Sanseito while inciting public opinion that discriminates against and excludes foreigners as a consequence." Regarding Kamiya's remark that he was amending what he said shortly afterward, the letter stated, "Words spoken by a politician representing a political party bear significant influence and cannot be easily dismissed as if they were never uttered."
NHK
2 hours ago
- NHK
Low-level radioactive soil in Fukushima arrives at PM's office grounds for reuse
The first batch of soil removed for decontamination after the 2011 nuclear accident at the Fukushima Daiichi plant has arrived at the grounds of the Prime Minister's Office in Tokyo for the first reuse in the country. Bags of soil were unloaded from a 10-ton truck onto the front yard of the office on Saturday morning. The soil had been stored at an intermediate storage facility in Fukushima Prefecture. By law, soil removed during decontamination work in Fukushima Prefecture shall be disposed outside the prefecture by 2045 after an interim storage. The government plans to use low-level radioactive soil for public works and other projects to reduce the volume for final disposal as much as possible. This is the first case of reuse in the nation except of the use in a demonstrative project in Fukushima Prefecture. Two cubic meters of soil will be buried at the depth of 60 centimeters in the front yard. It will be overlaid by a layer of regular soil that is at least 20 centimeters thick. The work is to take two days through Sunday. As of March this year, 14-million cubic meters of soil was stored at the interim storage facility. The government standard for reuse sets a limit of 8,000 becquerels of radioactive cesium per kilogram of soil. The limit was set so that additional radiation doses to workers and residents near the soil will not exceed 1 millisievert per year, the international standard for the allowable dose to the public. The radioactive cesium concentration in the soil being buried is 6,400 becquerels per kilogram, within the government's reuse standard. The Environment Ministry will measure radioactive levels around the yard once a week or so and publish them on its official website. Ministry officials say they hope the first case of reuse will help enhance public acceptance of the removed soil.
Japan Times
3 hours ago
- Japan Times
Fukushima soil delivered to Ishiba's office for reuse
Dozens of bags of mildly radioactive soil collected from near the stricken Fukushima nuclear plant were delivered Saturday to Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba's office, in an effort to show it is safe for reuse. Soon after the March 2011 tsunami and nuclear disaster, authorities scraped a layer of contaminated soil from swathes of land in Fukushima to reduce radiation levels. A vast quantity of soil -- 14 million cubic meters — has since been stored at facilities near the Fukushima No. 1 plant, with the government setting a 2045 deadline for its transfer elsewhere in the country. Most of the stored soil contains low levels of radiation equivalent to or less than one X-ray per year for people who directly stand on or work with it, the environment ministry said. But with few willing to take the contaminated earth, the government took it upon itself to reuse some of the soil to show it is not dangerous. On Saturday, workers unloaded bags of the dirt from a truck in the front yard of the prime minister's office in central Tokyo, with earlier reports saying it will be used in flower beds. A layer of ordinary soil around 20 centimeters deep will sit on top of the Fukushima soil, according to the environment ministry. Opinion polls suggest that Ishiba's coalition could lose its majority in upper house elections on Sunday, a result that might push him to resign after less than a year in office.
