November 4, 2026
Crime, scandal, intrigue from Japan
TOKYO (TR) – Canadian Forces aircraft have spotted a Japanese fishing vessel swept out to sea after the March 11, 2011, earthquake and tsunami off the nation’s west coast, the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation reported.
The 50-meter vessel was discovered last week during a routine patrol off the coast of British Colombia near the Haida Gwaii Islands, a government spokeswoman said. Photographs of the ship showed a rusty but still intact hulk.
Japanese government kept secret a worst-case scenario report by experts that warned there was the possibility the meltdown at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant may require the forced evacuation of tens of millions from Tokyo
Olympus admitted to paying inflated fees in order to secretly cover losses
Worker was employed by a company run by a yakuza group affiliated with the Kudo-kai syndicate
Book written by a Japanese man who evaded police for two-and-a-half years after the murder of a young British English teacher is being made into a movie
Fees Olympus paid to advisors on at least 4 deals may have been indirectly funneled to organized crime
Japanese government announced a ban on rice grown near the damaged TEPCO nuclear power plant in Fukushima Prefecture after samples showed radioactive contamination above legal safety limits
