Opening day of the sapporo snow festival. The sculptures are lit up at night, filling the air with dreamlike visions. The governments of north and south korea have agreed to hold reunions of families separated by the korean war. Theyll take place beginning february 20th. Red cross officials from the two countries met to discuss the issue at the border village of pan mum jong on wednesday. 100 people will take part in the six day reunions at the mt. Kumgang resort in the north. It will be the First Time Since 2010 that families divided by the war have been able to meet. The korean war lasted from 1950 to 1953. Both countries agreed to hold family reunions last september. But the north called them off at the last minute. South korean President Park geunhye last month urged the north to allow the families to get back to the. Analysts say north korea may set conditions for the reunions. Leaders in pyongyang remain strongly opposed to an upcoming military exercise between south korea and th
A french documentary filmmaker has headed out to the japanese countryside to capture a growing trend in art. The people in charge of Fukushima Daiichi have taken another step toward decommissioning the nuclear plant. Workers have removed the first batch of nuclear fuel from a damaged reactor building. The workers moved a Container Holding 22 assemblies of Nuclear Fuel Rods from the reactor number four building. All of the rods are unused. A truck carried the container about 100 meters to another building where the fuel will be stored. Tokyo electric Power Company is in charge of the plant. Company Officials Say the Storage Facility is much safer than the damaged reactor building. They say it can withstand an earthquake as strong as the one in march 2011. The workers next task is to transfer the fuel assemblies from the container to a pool. Then theyll begin moving the next batch of fuel. More than 1,500 fuel assemblies remain inside the damaged reactor building. Most of them contain sp
Dreamliner down. The crew of a boein78 makes an Emergency Landing in southern japan. The people who make the dreamliner passenger plane have spent the past few weeks responding to incident after incident. Now theyll be forced to respond to another one. Officials at an airport in western japan say an all Nippon Airways boeing 787 has made an Emergency Landing. The officials at takamatse airport say the crew detected smoke. The Officials Say the plane was heading from an airport in yamaguchi prefecre, wester japan, to hanad airportn tokyo. It was carrying 129 passengers and eight crew members. Airline Officials Say they evacuated the plane shortly after landing. Authorities at the airport closed the runway. Officials at the departing airport say they didnt notice anything unusual before the plane took off. Dreamliners have suffered a series of technical problems this month, including a battery fire and several fuel leaks. Two explosions have torn through a university in aleppo, Northern
number two and three reactors. the firm says it s considering pumping water out of the containment vessels and circulating it back into the reactors after cooling it with heat exchangers. it s also thinking of taking water from the basement of the reactor buildings and putting it back into the reactors after removing the radioactive substances. tepco is expected to keep to its original schedule of stabilizing the reactors within six to nine months. the japanese government will announce a plan on tuesday to help evacuees from around the troubled fukushima daiichi plant. it will have the first official schedule for assisting evacuees. the government is expected to allow them to re-enter the 20-kilometer exclusion zone to get their cars, starting later this month. residents from the extended zone will be asked to complete their evacuation by the oeend of the month. the government will help with employment and business operations. it will decide when to lift the evacuation orde