Job update: I'm now a consulting producer (international news) for Japan's public broadcaster. I arrived in Tokyo seven months ago. My colleagues are lovely, there is so much to explore, the food is incredible, and learning Japanese is a lot of fun.
BREAKING NEWS
The Norwegian Nobel Committee has decided to award the 2024 #NobelPeacePrize to the Japanese organisation Nihon Hidankyo. This grassroots movement of atomic bomb survivors from Hiroshima and Nagasaki, also known as Hibakusha, is receiving the peace prize for its efforts to achieve a world free of nuclear weapons and for demonstrating through witness testimony that nuclear weapons must never be used again.
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Today marks 13 years since a devastating earthquake and tsunami hit eastern Japan. The destruction caused meltdowns at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant. This is what the facility looks like from Namie, about 6 kilometers away.