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Almost two years after the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster Japanese officials report that 44 countries still ban or limit food imports from Japan, as thousands of the nation's citizens gathered on Saturday in ongoing anti-nuclear demonstrations around the country. China and South Korea, both majo....... [more]

Japanese authorities on Wednesday began a criminal investigation into last year's Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster. The Fukushima Prosecutor accepted a criminal complaint filed in June by more than 1,300 people against Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO) for causing the catastrophe and for the p....... [more]

Tens of thousands of protestors rallied in Tokyo on Monday as Japan moves to restart the country's nuclear reactors that were shut down following the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster last year. The peaceful antinuclear demonstration in Yoyogi park took place on Japan's national holiday, highlighti....... [more]

A Japanese expert panel on Thursday issued a report claiming that the March 2011 Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster was preventable. In the 641-page document the panel claims that the accident was not caused solely by the earthquake and subsequent tsunami, but the inability of the government, regula....... [more]

More than 1,300 people filed a criminal complaint on Monday against Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO) for causing the March 2011 disaster at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant and for the plaintiffs' resulting radiation. The complaint named as defendants Tsunehisa Katsumata, the chairman of TEPC....... [more]

JURIST Guest Columnist Daniel Joyner of the University of Alabama School of Law says that the International Atomic Energy Agency and the West are over-estimating the positive results of their sanctions program against Iran and its nuclear program ...There is a good bit of "crowing" going on at the m....... [more]

On April 24, 2010, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad criticized attempts by the UN to impose sanctions on the country's nuclear program, claiming that the actions by the UN Security Council (UNSC) and US were illegal. Following his sharp criticism, Ahmadinejad denied that Iran had broken nuclear....... [more]

A group of shareholders in the Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO) on Monday filed a USD $67 billion lawsuit against TEPCO officials for failing to prevent the March 2011 disaster at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant. The group of 42 shareholders have accused 27 current and former TEPCO director....... [more]

On December 3, 2005, Iran's Guardian Council approved a bill to prevent inspections of Iranian nuclear facilities by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), with the prohibition on inspections set to become active whenever Iran is reported to the UN Security Council for potential sanctions. T....... [more]

JURIST Guest Columnist Daniel Joyner of the University of Alabama School of Law says the IAEA went outside of its legal mandate with its latest report on Iran, a move that has been viewed by some states as indicating the IAEA's shift from a technical body to a politicized one...On November 8, Yukiya....... [more]

The National Diet of Japan, the nation's bicameral legislature, voted on Wednesday to compensate those adversely affected by the recent Fukushima nuclear power plant meltdown. The law will create a fund that could start dispensing money to victims as early as August 10. Although the government has....... [more]