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cool biz - クールビズ - wearing light cloths in offices - will start one month earlier and last until October, to save energy in the region.
Now we can see government spokesman Edano san without a necktie in the press conference.
see sample below

Cool Biz campaign
While Cool Biz spread energy savings to all businesses, the necktie business suffered.
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Gabi reports:

A busy day with visitors.


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Bulletins from NHK Online

source : www3.nhk.or.jp


source : NHK World News


Tuesday, May 03, 2011 12:09
Shareholders call for nuclear plant closures
NHK has learned that shareholders of five electric power companies in Japan are calling for the utilities to decommission their nuclear power plants in the wake of the crisis at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant.
About 400 stockholders of the Tokyo Electric Power Company, which operates the Fukushima plant, submitted official documents in support of the proposal.
Shareholders of at least four other power companies --- Kansai Electric, Chugoku Electric, Kyushu Electric and Tohoku Electric -- have made similar proposals.
On Monday, a group of 232 stockholders of Tohoku Electric submitted documents calling for the company to abolish its nuclear power plants.
The group says the potential risks of nuclear power generation are too great for any single company to afford.
The group urged the utility to decommission its nuclear power plants and to end its investment in the spent nuclear fuel reprocessing businesses.
The power companies are expected to examine the proposals and submit them to a vote at their annual shareholders' meeting. The meetings are typically held by the end of June.
Attention is now focused on what decisions will be made at the meetings amid growing public concern about nuclear power generation.
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68 top bureaucrats assume exec posts at utilities
Japan's industry ministry says a total of 68 former top bureaucrats have assumed executive posts at electric power companies after retiring from the ministry over the past 50 years.
The Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry, which oversees electric companies, surveyed 12 firms on the number of former career-track bureaucrats that the companies have employed as executives or advisors.


Tuesday, May 03, 2011 16:06
Radiation forecast data released
The Japanese government has released data projecting the spread of radioactive substances from the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant.
The science ministry uses a computer system called SPEEDI to predict how radiation will spread depending on weather and geographical conditions.
On Tuesday, the government released about 5,000 bits of data showing hourly predictions from March 11th. The information appears on the websites of the Nuclear Safety Commission and other entities.
The data was calculated on the assumption that radioactive substances are being released at a rate of one becquerel per hour.
The data for 10 p.m. on March 15th, when an explosion occurred at the No.2 reactor, shows radiation flowing out of the screen to the northeast.
Such data had been withheld for fear of causing panic.
Goshi Hosono, secretary general of the joint task force set up by the government and the Tokyo Electric Power Company, apologized on Monday for the delay in releasing the data.
He said that he now believes that panic can be avoided if proper explanations are offered. Hosono promised to release data promptly in the future.


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Japan Times :

Power cut doomed fallout computer
The nation's system for predicting the volume of radioactive materials to be released into the environment failed amid the nuclear crisis at the Fukushima No. 1 power plant due to the power supply cut following the March 11 earthquake and tsunami, sources say.
The Emergency Response Support System is designed to collect data about the state of a plant's nuclear reactors, such as pressures and temperatures, from remote locations and to analyze the suspected development of a nuclear accident to predict how much radioactive material will be released.
The malfunction of the ERSS, coupled with "insufficiencies" attribued to SPEEDI, the System for Prediction of Environmental Emergency Dose Information, which projects the dispersal of radioactive fallout based on ERSS forecasts, is likely to have delayed the evacuation of Fukushima residents. Japan sent SPEEDI data to the U.N. but withheld it from the public.
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http://search.japantimes.co.jp/mail/nn20110503a3.html


U.S. doctors hit Tokyo radiation limit for kids
http://search.japantimes.co.jp/mail/nn20110503a1.html

Protesters urge rethink of child radiation limit
http://search.japantimes.co.jp/mail/nn20110503a5.html


Diet budgets yen 4 trillion for rebuilding
http://search.japantimes.co.jp/mail/nn20110503a2.html

Traffic jams worsened tsunami toll

Traffic jams that formed after the devastating March 11 mega-quake increased the death toll in the Tohoku region by stranding hundreds of cars that ended up being swallowed up by the tsunami, survivors said Sunday.
http://search.japantimes.co.jp/mail/nn20110503a6.html


Tight-lipped Tepco lays bare exclusivity of press clubs
http://search.japantimes.co.jp/mail/nn20110503f1.html

March saw first decline in monthly wage in 13 months; blackouts blamed
http://search.japantimes.co.jp/mail/nb20110503a1.html

Iitate 'wagyu' beef farmers blast evacuation order
http://search.japantimes.co.jp/mail/nb20110503n1.html

Domestic disaster, overseas losses put pressure on Nomura's profits
http://search.japantimes.co.jp/mail/nb20110503n3.html

What to do with the debris
http://search.japantimes.co.jp/mail/ed20110503a2.html

Better to be branded a 'flyjin' than a man of the 'sheeple'
DEBITO ARUDOU
http://search.japantimes.co.jp/mail/fl20110503ad.html

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Drumbeat of Nuclear Fallout Fear Doesn’t Resound With Experts
The nuclear disaster in Japan has sent waves of radiation and dread around the globe, prompting so many people to buy radiation detectors and potassium iodide to fend off thyroid cancer that supplies quickly sold out.

The fear is unwarranted, experts say. People in Japan near the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant may have reason to worry about the consequences of radiation leaks, scientists say, and some reactor workers, in particular, may suffer illness. But outside of Japan, the increase is tiny, compared with numerous other sources of radiation, past and present.

Experts say that humans are bombarded by so much radiation from so many other sources, including many natural ones, that the uptick from Japan disappears as a cause of concern the big picture is considered.
source : www.nytimes.com


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Cool Biz Daruma Slip - crepe shirt
三ツ桃クレープ ダルマ スリップ(前あき)　
all cotton
source : e-wear.jp



ladies underwear, called "Daruma type" slip
Darumagata slip ダルマ型スリップ


Daruma peeks
through the underwear -
cool biz starts 　


. Setsuden - Energy Saving


cool biz
super cool biz
smart cool biz ... coming up this summer !

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