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The Bank of Japan's new governor Haruhiko Kuroda on Thursday pledged "all-out efforts" to rid Japan of growth-sapping deflation as gloomy new trade data underlined the scale of the task ahead.

2013-03-21T13:18:27ZAFP Asian Editionby Hiroshi Hiyamatag:www.blnz.com,2009:2013/03/21/linked_outage_Fukushima_atomic_plant_33f2

A rat may have caused a power cut that knocked out cooling systems at Japan's tsunami-wrecked Fukushima nuclear plant, the operator said Thursday, an episode that highlighted the jerry-rigged nature of the fix.

2013-03-21T07:52:56ZAFP Global Editionby Kyoko Hasegawatag:www.blnz.com,2009:2013/03/20/Japan_logs_81_billion_trade_4e9b

Japan logged another trade deficit in February, this time of $8.1 billion according to the latest figures, reversing a year-earlier surplus and underscoring the uncertain state of the world's third-largest economy.

2013-03-21T02:09:39ZAFP Global EditionBy Staff Reportertag:www.blnz.com,2009:2013/03/20/Temelin_Czech_village_overshadowed_disputed_181f

Flanked by Germany, which is phasing out nuclear power, and Austria, which has already done so, the Czech Republic is pinning its future on atomic energy.

2013-03-20T18:51:44ZAFP Global Editionby Jan Marchaltag:www.blnz.com,2009:2013/03/20/Cooling_systems_restored_Fukushima_reactors_e1c1

Technicians have restored power to all cooling systems at the reactors of Japan's tsunami-hit Fukushima nuclear plant, the operating company said Wednesday after a blackout sparked a new crisis.

2013-03-20T15:02:14ZAFP Asian Editionby Hiroshi Hiyamatag:www.blnz.com,2009:2013/03/19/Cooling_systems_restored_Fukushima_reactors_e1c1

Technicians have restored power to all cooling systems at the reactors of Japan's tsunami-hit Fukushima nuclear plant, the operating company said Wednesday after a blackout sparked a new crisis.

2013-03-20T02:59:55ZAFP Global Editionby Hiroshi Hiyamatag:www.blnz.com,2009:2013/03/19/Cooling_systems_restored_Fukushima_4eda

Technicians have restored power to all cooling systems at the reactors of Japan's tsunami-hit Fukushima nuclear plant, the operating company said, after a blackout sparked a new crisis.

2013-03-20T02:08:45ZAFP Asian EditionBy Staff Reportertag:www.blnz.com,2009:2013/03/19/Crippled_Japan_nuclear_plant_power_03d3

Engineers at Japan's crippled Fukushima nuclear plant succeeded Tuesday in restarting three cooling systems after a power cut underlined its still-precarious state, two years after a tsunami struck.

2013-03-19T16:28:28ZAFP Asian Editionby Kyoko Hasegawatag:www.blnz.com,2009:2013/03/19/Czech_villagers_embrace_disputed_nuclear_abef

Flanked by Germany, which is phasing out nuclear power, and Austria, which has already done so, the Czech Republic is pinning its future on atomic energy.

2013-03-19T15:09:11ZAFP Global Editionby Jan Marchaltag:www.blnz.com,2009:2013/03/18/Crippled_Japan_nuclear_plant_power_03d3

The operator of Japan's tsunami-crippled Fukushima nuclear plant said Tuesday power for cooling systems at three spent fuel pools was still out more than 14 hours after it failed.

2013-03-19T02:40:55ZAFP Asian EditionBy Staff Reportertag:www.blnz.com,2009:2013/03/18/Crippled_Japan_nuclear_plant_power_a1ac

A power failure at Japan's tsunami-crippled Fukushima nuclear plant forced operator Tokyo Electric Power Co. to suspend systems to cool spent fuel pools at three reactor units, a report said Tuesday.

2013-03-18T19:48:20ZAFP Asian EditionBy Staff Reportertag:www.blnz.com,2009:2013/03/15/Japan_disaster_debris_estimate_reach_aa85

Japan's estimate for the amount of debris from the 2011 quake-tsunami disaster that will reach North America later this year has sharply increased, a report said Friday.

2013-03-15T16:52:52ZAFP Asian EditionBy Staff Reportertag:www.blnz.com,2009:2013/03/12/Japan_extracts_fire_ice_from_b21a

Japan said Tuesday it had successfully extracted methane hydrate, known as "fire ice", from its seabed, possibly unlocking many years' worth of gas for the resource-starved country.

2013-03-12T17:28:03ZAFP Asian Editionby Shingo Itotag:www.blnz.com,2009:2013/03/12/Nuclear_group_Areva_insists_public_e90a

Two years after Japan's Fukushima nuclear crisis, the head of French group Areva, a leading company in the sector, insisted that public confidence in atomic energy has been re-established.

2013-03-12T05:41:14ZAFP Global EditionBy Staff Reportertag:www.blnz.com,2009:2013/03/11/Activists_fault_report_Fukushima_radiation_dce5

Activist physicians on Monday accused the World Health Organization of downplaying the health impact of nuclear fallout from the Fukushima nuclear disaster.

2013-03-11T22:02:07ZAFP Global Editionby John Bierstag:www.blnz.com,2009:2013/03/11/Greenpeace_protests_Argentina_nuclear_plant_88b7

Some 40 Greenpeace activists were arrested inside an atomic power plant in Argentina on Monday at a protest on the second anniversary of the earthquake and nuclear disaster in Japan, the group said.

2013-03-11T19:52:27ZAFP Global EditionBy Staff Reportertag:www.blnz.com,2009:2013/03/11/Japan_marks_second_tsunami_anniversary_884a

People all over Japan bowed their heads in silence Monday as they remembered the almost 19,000 who died when a ferocious tsunami surged ashore two years earlier.

2013-03-11T09:51:01ZAFP Global Editionby Antoine Bouthiertag:www.blnz.com,2009:2013/03/11/Japan_marks_tsunami_second_anniversary_f5a7

People all over Japan bowed their heads in silence Monday as they remembered the almost 19,000 who died when a ferocious tsunami surged ashore two years earlier.

2013-03-11T07:52:10ZAFP Global Editionby Antoine Bouthiertag:www.blnz.com,2009:2013/03/10/Japan_marks_second_tsunami_anniversary_884a

Japan on Monday marks the second anniversary of a ferocious tsunami that claimed nearly 19,000 lives and sparked the worst nuclear accident in a generation.

2013-03-10T22:37:49ZAFP Global EditionBy Staff Reportertag:www.blnz.com,2009:2013/03/09/Taiwan_stages_mass_Nuke_rally_2e86

Tens of thousands of Taiwanese people rallied in the capital Saturday to demand the government heed the lesson of a Japanese atomic crisis and scrap the island's nuclear facilities, organisers said.

2013-03-09T19:34:09ZAFP Asian EditionBy Staff Reporter