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Companies Might Have to ‘Lean In’ to Transparency by Reporting Salaries
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Caroline Kennedy visits offshore wind turbine
Technology
Japan has just built the world’s most powerful offshore wind turbine
Rasen kaigan (Spiral Shore) 45 from the series Rasen kaigan (Spiral Shore), 2012.
Arts
These artists remember the Fukushima disaster through their photography
A man walks between a fallow rice field at Miyakoji area in Tamura, Fukushima prefecture on April 1, 2014. The area was finally opened to residents three years after the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster.
Environment
Riding the bus through Japan’s forbidden nuclear zone
Former NHK anchor Jun Hori speaks at a TEDx event in Kyoto, Japan, about opening Japanese journalism to non-traditional sources.
Media
Japan’s timid coverage of Fukushima led this news anchor to revolt — and he’s not alone
Kiyoko and her husband Yoshishiro Baba ran a fish restaurant in their home in Kawauchi until the Fukushima meltdown.
Environment
A couple returns to their ‘heaven’ near the Fukushima nuclear disaster
These residents have been given temporary jobs maintaining public places.
Environment
Not everyone wants the clean-up in Fukushima to be over
PBS NewsHour Science Correspondent Miles O'Brien
Environment
Science reporter Miles O’Brien on the Fukushima cleanup, irradiated fish and losing his arm on assignment
A sign reading "Nuclear Power - The Energy for a Better Future" hangs over a street in the town of Futaba, inside the 12-mile radius exclusion zone around Japan’s crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant in a 2012 photo.
Environment
One lesson of the Fukushima nuclear meltdown is that Japan’s culture needs to change
An aerial view of the tsunami-crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant and its contaminated water storage tanks, taken August 31, 2013. Japan pledged nearly $500 million to contain leaks and decontaminate radioactive water fro
Environment
Fukushima Leaks Up the Ante for Japanese Government
Environment
The Hidden Effects of Japan’s Tsunami and Quake