15450 Europe Media Monitor (EMM) reads and analyses around 40.000 new news items per day from around 1000 sites worldwide. The text of the items, extracted using EMM's own text extraction algorithm, is indexed using Lucene (see http://lucene.apache.org). Please make sure your area of interest is not already covered by one of the pre-defined categories (alerts). If it is, we kindly ask you to use the feed from that category as this significantly reduces the load on our system. This site is a joint project of DG-JRC and DG-COMM. The information on this site is subject to a disclaimer (see http://europa.eu/geninfo/legal_notices_en.htm). Please acknowledge EMM when (re)using this material https://japantoday.com/category/politics/update1-eu-to-ease-post-fukushima-restrictions-on-japanese-food-importsThe European Union will ease its restrictions on Japanese food imports imposed following the 2011 Fukushima nuclear disaster, possibly by the end of this year, government officials said Saturday. Specifically, the European Union is planning to remove its import restrictions on fishery products from....Sun, 06 Oct 2019 00:53:00 +0200japantoday-9262f164f809ce63d0fcceedda5b9b6020191006005300https://www.philstar.com/nation/2019/10/06/1957778/senate-probes-realignment-p356-billion-metro-manila-subwayMANILA, Philippines The Senate committee on public services has started looking into the controversial realignment of stations in the proposed P356-billion Metro Manila subway project, which reportedly crosses a major earthquake fault. Sen. Grace Poe, chairperson of the committee, raised the issues....Sat, 05 Oct 2019 18:36:00 +0200philstar-6ba55fc651a14af1ed2d232ff9d7c77520191005183600http://manilastandard.net/news/world-news/306690/radioactive-water-big-problem-at-fukushima.htmlWhat to do with the enormous amount of water, which grows by around 150 tonnes a day, is a thorny question, with controversy surrounding a long-standing proposal to discharge it into the sea, after extensive decontamination. The water comes from several different sources: some is used for cooling at....Sat, 05 Oct 2019 17:19:00 +0200manilastandard-ph-d3f0746a91715bd0b6dccea9b2201e3e20191005171900https://www.rawstory.com/2019/10/report-shows-stunning-and-dramatic-scenes-of-thawing-permafrost-in-siberia-that-leaves-millions-on-unstable-ground/Mooney and Troianovski, in their report, outlined some of the regional results of permafrost thaw: For the 5.4 million people who live in Russia’s permafrost zone, the new climate has disrupted their homes and their livelihoods. Rivers are rising and running faster, and entire neighborhoods are falling into them.Sat, 05 Oct 2019 14:30:00 +0200newsnow-co-uk-9028c819b555cda58585147ed47744ff20191005143000