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3. Japanese Search Engine (MSN)
   Provides Web searches in Japanese. 6-00

4. Japanese-English Dictionary (Breen - Peterson)
   Translates English words into Japanese and gives alternative contexts. Does not require Japanese fonts to be downloaded. 6-00

5. Japanese Resources (iLoveLanguages - Chambers)
   Provides lessons, dictionaries, translation guides, news, and literature. 1-02

6. Awesome Library in Japanese (Requires Japanese font.)

7. Japanese Books Search (Amazon.co.jp)
   Provides searches in Japanese. Requires the Japanese font. 6-02
   

8. -See and Hear Web Pages in English, Japanese, or Other Languages (Awesome Library)
   Awesome Talkster allows you to hear Web pages. You can, for example, set the voice to Japanese and start with www.awesomelibrary.org/Japanese.html to see and hear the Web in Japanese. By adding a voice to Web pages, children and teens can learn to pronounce words as they read them. Awesome Talkster includes an animated character, providing synchronized highlighting so that children can follow along even more easily. This multi-sensory approach is a powerful method for improving reading skills. Online books for children and teens to practice their reading skills are available in the Awesome Library. 1-03

9. Japanese Encyclopedia (Wikipedia.org)
   Provides over 10,000 articles in the language. 12-04

10. -09-20-06 Shinzo Abe to Become Next Japanese Prime Minister (Bloomberg.com)
    "Shinzo Abe was elected head of Japan's ruling Liberal Democratic Party today, ensuring he will succeed Junichiro Koizumi as prime minister next week." 09-06

11. -09-01-08 Japanese Prime Minister Resigns (Time.com)
    "Japan's unpopular prime minister, Yasuo Fukuda, announced his resignation Monday after less than a year in office."
    
    "Fukuda, in a hastily arranged news conference Monday evening, said he was stepping down to avoid a "political vacuum" at the head of the world's second-largest economy." 09-08

12. Japanese Workers Urged to Go Home Early (CNN News)
    "In a country where 12-hour workdays are common, the electronics giant has taken to letting its employees leave early twice a week for a rather unusual reason: to encourage them to have more babies."
    
    "Japan in the midst of an unprecedented recession, so corporations are being asked to work toward fixing another major problem: the country's low birthrate."
    
    "At 1.34, the birthrate is well below the 2.0 needed to maintain Japan's population, according to the country's Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare."
    
    "Analysts say the world's second-largest economy faces its greatest threat from its own social problems, rather than outside forces. And the country desperately needs to make some fixes to its current social and work structures, sociologists say." 01-09

13. Japanese Biomass Stoves (ScienceDaily.com)
    "Millions of homes in rural areas of Far Eastern countries are heated by charcoal burned on small, hibachi-style portable grills. Scientists in Japan are now reporting development of an improved 'biomass charcoal combustion heater' that they say could open a new era in sustainable and ultra-high efficiency home heating."

14. -03-14-11 A New Explosion at a Japanese Nuclear Plant (Time.com)
    "For the second time in three harrowing days, a hydrogen explosion at one of Japan's crippled reactors at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant blew the roof off a containment building — this time on Monday morning at reactor unit No. 3."
    
    "As grim as the news is, the situation is not yet a calamity. Critically, the fuel rods at Fukushima remain inside their steel containment vessels, and there is no indication that those vessels have been damaged."
    
    "The problem, nuclear scientists say, is that the effort to pump in sufficient amounts of seawater to cool the fuel rods could fail, leading to a partial or full meltdown. James Acton, a nuclear expert at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, says that "anytime you have core melting, you have the risk of a substantial release of radiation." 03-11

15. -03-14-11 Emergency Effort at Japanese Nuclear Plant Failing (New York Times)
    "Japan’s struggle to contain the crisis at a stricken nuclear power plant worsened sharply early Tuesday morning, as emergency operations to pump seawater into one crippled reactor failed at least temporarily, increasing the risk of an uncontrolled release of radioactive material, officials said." 03-11

16. Expert: U.S. Not at Risk from Japanese Radiation (CBS News)
    "Dr. Glenn Braunstein, of Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, sees patients with thyroid cancer -- one of the biggest risks from radiation exposure of a nuclear meltdown. He says the 5,500 miles between the U.S. and the nuclear plant in Japan is more than a safe distance." 03-11

17. Top U.S. Expert: Japanese Radiation "Extremely High" and Crisis Worsening (New York Times)
    "Mr. Jaczko’s most startling assertion was that there was now little or no water in the pool storing spent nuclear fuel at the No. 4 reactor of the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station, leaving fuel rods stored there exposed and bleeding radiation into the atmosphere."
    
    "As a result, he said, 'We believe that radiation levels are extremely high, which could possibly impact the ability to take corrective measures.' "
    
    Gregory Jaczko is the the Chairman of the United States Nuclear Regulatory Commission." 03-11

18. -03-18-11 Bullock Donates $1 Million to Japanese Relief (Scoop)
    "Sandra Bullock has donated $1 million to the Red Cross for Japan disaster relief, her rep confirms to Scoop. While other celebrities have made various gestures to encourage donation and raise money, this is the largest known donation made by a celebrity since the 9.0 magnitude earthquake, tsunami and nuclear crisis."
    
    "This isn't the first time that Bullock has risen to the occasion charitably. She was honored for her contributions in rebuilding a New Orleans public school after Hurricane Katrina and last year donated $1 million for earthquake victims in Haiti." 03-11

19. Radiation and the Japanese Nuclear Reactors Crisis (CNN News)
    "Radiation levels at the plant Tuesday were between 100 and 400 millisieverts, Japan’s Chief Cabinet Secretary Yukio Edano said. To put that in perspective, in the United States, a person typically gets a radiation dose of 6.2 millisieverts per year."
    
    "At the higher end of that spectrum at the Japan plant, exposure to millisieverts for three hours would lead to radiation sickness, and eight hours would be fatal, said Ira Helfand of Physicians for Social Responsibility. But in general, in an emergency situation, keeping it below 500 millisieverts is pretty safe, said Nolan E. Hertel, nuclear engineering expert at Georgia Institute of Technology. And the further away you are from a radiation source, the lower exposure you will have." 03-11

20. -03-25-11 Truth Hard to Determine in Japanese Nuclear Plant Crisis (Time.com)
    "Each day at the stricken Fukushima power plant seems to bring a new piece of troubling news—today, reports surfaced that three workers at the Fukushima plant had been hospitalized after radiation levels reported at the plant spiked to '10,000 times above normal.' There were also reports that the No. 3 reactor vessel had been damaged, which if true would result in a serious leak of radiation at the only reactor at the site that contains the especially-toxic MOX fuel."
    
    "The Bulletin of Atomic Scientists reported that the three hospitalized workers were the first radiation-exposure injuries at Fukushima, contradicting earlier reports suggesting some workers showed symptoms of radiation sickness. The IAEA seemed to confirm this, stating that the number of workers at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant found to have received more than 100 millisieverts of radiation dose totaled 17 including the three contract workers. Again, 100 millisieverts is not nearly a high enough dosage to cause acute radiation sickness--that requires a dose of at least 1,000 milliesierverts."
    
    "Many outside experts have begun openly criticizing both TEPCO and the Japenese government for the lack of transparency and reliable information about the Fukushima crisis. It's an admittedly frenzied and difficult time for TEPCO and Japanese nuclear safety officials, but it's also difficult to disagree with the sentiment of Najmedin Meshkati, a USC engineering professor who has advised U.S. agencies on nuclear safety issues; he told the LA Times, 'Information sharing has not been in the culture of Tepco or the Japanese government. This issue is larger than one utility and one country. It is an international crisis.' " 3-11