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Water poisonous for Tokyo infants
The Tokyo Water Bureau has warned parents not let their infants drink the city's radioactive water supply, with levels two times the recommended limit for infants.
<i>Michael Dickison:</i> Nuclear fears dim Tokyo's glow but not its spirits
Herald reporter Michael Dickison, who is fluent in Japanese, reports from a remarkably changed Tokyo.
<i>Michael Dickison:</i> Evacuees taking life a day at a time
Herald reporter Michael Dickison has been travelling through the devastation on the coast of Japan. Yesterday, he visited Sendai.
Mirko Bagaric: Suicide mission exposes human rights nonsense
Workers at the damaged nuclear plant in Japan are doing whatever is necessary to save the greater population.
Catastrophe in Japan means construction boom
Japan's magnitude-9 quake and tsunami damaged about 1500 roads, 48 bridges and 15 railways.
Ooh for umami (+recipes)
Add a fifth taste to sweet, sour, salty and bitter and you're in for a sensory treat.
NZ to give $1m to Red Cross in Japan
Cabinet agreed today to give $1m to support the Red Cross effort in Japan, Prime Minister John Key announced this afternoon, and also confirmed four NZers were still in Libya.
Japan disaster: Plant workers 'resigned to death'
Workers at Japan's Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant said they were "resigned to death" when the 9-magnitude quake struck on March 11.
<i>Peter Bromhead</i>: Nuclear reactions
My anti-nuclear friends are having a field day debunking my myopic view that a modest nuclear power plant would sensibly take care of New Zealand's energy needs for the next 100 years.
Japan: Woman, 80, boy rescued after nine days
An 80-year-old woman and a 16-year-old boy have been rescued from a badly damaged house in Ishinomaki, Miyagi Prefecture, nine days after the magnitude 9 earthquake and subsequent tsunami ravaged the area, the Japan Times reports.
Japan disaster: Barrage of threats adds to confusion in disaster region
Herald reporter Michael Dickison grew up in Japan and speaks fluent Japanese. He returned last week to report on the ravaged countryside of his other homeland
Kiwi team exhausted after week in Japan
Kiwi rescue team members return to NZ today after a week searching for bodies in rubble and icy blizzards in Japan.
NZ team returning from Japan
New Zealand's Urban Search and Rescue team is returning from earthquake and tsunami ravaged Japan tomorrow. Teams from several other countries, have also completed their rescue missions.
Japanese in NZ desperate to extend visas
Visiting Japanese citizens are worried about returning home and are seeking ways to extend their stay.
A lonely drive north along the highway to desolation
Weekend Herald reporter Michael Dickison grew up in Japan and speaks the language fluently. After last week's earthquake he returned and filed this account of his odyssey through the ravaged countryside of his other homeland...
Anxious NZ parents waiting to make contact with son
The family of a Kiwi believed to be staying at an evacuation centre in Japan are still desperately waiting for details.
Get out of Tokyo, Kiwis told
MFAT has upgraded its advice to New Zealand citizens in quake-devastated Japan, warning Kiwis to leave Tokyo and northern Honshu.