All Black Thorn to play Japan (AFP)

 enforcer All Blacks Brad Thorn rugby club, to play the Japan after cutting this year the of the world, the New Zealand officials said Thursday.

The New Zealand Rugby Union (NZRU) said that the 36-year lock has signed a two year contract with the Blues of Sanix of Fukuoka to the Japan for the 2012 and 2013 seasons.

All Blacks coach Graham Henry described Thorn as the "ultimate professional" and said that it was a source of inspiration of the New Zealand team, which is the favourite of the bookies to win the cup of the world of football in September-October.

"The remarkable thing is the young 36 years, that he is still improving and, knowing that Brad, will continue to improve, Henry a." it will be to go to the Japan year next with our best wishes. ""

In addition to win 50 All Black selections, Thorn has also experienced a successful career in rugby league, Australian rugby representative kangaroos and won the first three NRL and a Super League title with the Brisbane Broncos.

Toyota Production resumes all plants of the Japan

Toyota Motor Corp. has resumed production automobile at all its plants in Japan Monday for the first time since March 11, earthquake and the tsunami, but said that plants will take place at half capacity because of parts shortages.

No. 1 constructor world say there still struggling to obtain approximately 150 types of auto parts. The magnitude 9.0 earthquake and the tsunami that followed destroyed parts plants in the northeast of the Japan, causing serious shortages of components.

Disaster twin forced Toyota to close all output to the Japan except in three plants to produce Prius, Lexus and Corolla hot-selling cars which were operating at capacity limited since late March and early April.

Workers at 900 to the factory cars of Toyota in Miyagi, one of the most affected areas in disasters, observed a minute of silence for the victims of the tsunami before you start working Monday. The earthquake and tsunami left close to 28,000 people dead or missing. Alone Miyagi, police said more than 8,400 people have been killed.

Toru Kuzuhara, President of Toyota subsidiary Central Motor Co. Ltd., which operates the Miyagi plant, said he hoped that the resumption of car production would help stimulate reconstruction efforts in tsunami-beaten region.

"Make us top quality cars and deliver to customers as soon as possible." I believe that this will cause larger Miyagi reconstruction efforts, "he says.

Yasuhiro Tadokoro, an official at the plant of Miyagi, said that he felt relieved that the factory was still running.

"" Finally, we can operate our factory. "."I am so relieved that we can return to work for the first time since the tsunami, he said.

Miyagi plant - factory of Toyota in the Japan most recent auto - started its operations in January. The plant suffered minor damage due to the tremor, Tadokoro said. Toyota made Yaris compact sedans to the Miyagi factory for export to North America.

Toyota will keep production of all its Japanese plants in half of the capacity to 27 April and stop, and then exit from 28 April to 9 may, a period which includes Golden Week holidays when factories would normally close.

Utility Japan to evacuees pay Nuke plant

The crisis in the nuclear power plant of tsunami-crippled the Kazuko Suzuki forced Japan to flee his home without packaging, finished his work to a welfare office and the costs of his 18-year-old son an offer for his own work.

Announcement of the operator of the plant Friday it would pay $12,000 in initial compensation each evacuated household hit as many too little to repay his family for the economic upheavals that she has already suffered.

"I am not satisfied," said the 49-year old single mother of Futaba, who lived for a month, with his two young sons in a shelter in school, North of Tokyo. "I feel like this is just a way to take care of this quickly."

Suzuki is among tens of thousands forced to flee their homes because of radiation leaks from the nuclear power plant in Fukushima Dai-ichi, uncertain of when, if ever, they will be able to return. Cooling of the complex systems have been disabled by the tsunami on 11 March, which was caused by an earthquake of magnitude 9.0.

Some have travelled hundreds of kilometres at the headquarters of the Tokyo Electric Power Co. has in the capital to press their claims. Pressed by the Government thus, TEPCO announced that it would begin distributing money on 28 April.

"We decided to pay provisional compensation to provide some help for people (who have been affected)," the President TEPCO Masataka Shimizu told a press conference.

About 48 000 households living in about 20 miles (30 km) of the plant crippled would be eligible for initial payments — 1 million yen (about $12,000) for families and 750 000 yen (about $9 million) for single adults, the Government said. The Government said more had to be paid at the latest.

TEPCO expects to pay 50 billion yen (approximately from $ 600 million) in the first series of compensation. Then that fresh utility, Shimizu said that the company would consider executive salaries cut as well as a number of its employees.

Disaster relief Slam Japan nuclear plant operator

Owners of small businesses and workers forced to leave their homes and their jobs because of radiation leaking the tsunami flooded of the Japan nuclear power mounted a bus in Tokyo on Wednesday to compensate for the request of the operator of the plant.

People grow more and more frustrated by the manipulation of the Tokyo Electric Power Co. (a) of the nuclear crisis, which grew expands since March 11 tsunami flooded the Fukushima Dai-ichi factory, knocking on significant cooling systems. Restore will take months.

"I ask nothing more that I was right," said Ichijiro Ishikawa, 69, who dug roads and tunnels and is now living in a shelter because his house is in an area of evacuation (20 kilometers) 12 miles around the plant. "I just want my due."

He and about 20 other people who have lived and worked near the plant travel 140 220 kilometres southwest of hand - deliver a letter to the President of Tokyo Electric, known as TEPCO. They said talks with the Government on how to compensate victims will take too long to start and they want money now. Some were near tears.

They met near the headquarters of the company with four TEPCO officials bowed in apology before them. President Masataka Shimizu later apologized in a two-hour press conference and is committed to do more, saying cash payments could be refined as soon as possible and the company would do its best to get the reactors under control and stop leaks of radiation.

"I offer my apologies to spread radiation," he said. "I apologise from the bottom of my heart."

Shimizu refused to comment on the question of whether he would resign to show that he takes responsibility for the crisis. He said his job is to deal with the problems of the evacuees and energy supply concerns.

TEPCO said earlier it will provide the evacuated towns 20 million yen ($ 240,000) each in "money excuses", and analysts say mass claims it could cost several billion yen.