Too bad it took a catastrophe of Fukushima’s magnitude to make the Japanese public and leadership reconsider the country's reliance on nuclear energy.read more

I admire the way the Japanese people are dealing with their unfathomable disasters. Their grace, dignity and discipline serve as examples to us all.read more

Keiko Ogura writes me from Japan: “The number of hibakusha is increasing.” The Japanese term, which was once used to refer to the atomic bomb victims in Hiroshima and Nagasaki, has come to mean any person poisoned by radiation in nuclear testing, accidents or acts of war.read more

It’s too bad that it takes a disaster of this magnitude to teach us the risks associated with nuclear energy. Those risks are way too high. We have no future with nuclear power.read more

Nagasaki was the most lethal redundancy in military history, and, as Howard Zinn said in his final book, it should make us question all wars.read more

Yukio Hatoyama has had to tender his resignation after he was caught in a bind between the intransigence of the Obama Administration and the wishes of his own people.read more

Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama poses a challenge to the U.S. economic and military models. And The New York Times gasps.read more