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Farmers in the city of Tamura, Fukushima Prefecture, have begun planting rice in a district once designated a no-go zone because of radioactive fallout ejected by the disaster-hit Fukushima No. 1 power plant.
Recently I was asked to write a blurb for a new liquid plant-nutrient. As soon as I saw the name of the product, 早根早起 （Hayane Hayaoki), I smiled at this example of linguistic creativity.
Life in Japan just seems tailor-made for certain foreign residents, who slip into the fabric of this society as smoothly as a hand slides into a glove. American Curtis Patterson, a professional koto player and music teacher, is a case in point. Not only ...
Denmark’s Emmelie de Forest won this year’s Eurovision Song Contest on Saturday night with her ethno-inspired flute and drum tune “Only Teardrops,” despite tough competition from spectacular stage shows by performers from Azerbaijan and Ukraine. Juries and television viewers across Europe awarded the barefoot, ...
One team’s quest for a first title has ended. The other team’s fight will continue next season. The Yokohama B-Corsairs outplayed the Rizing Fukuoka in Sunday’s bj-league championship game, controlling the tempo for larger stretches and making enough timely baskets to fill an instructional ...
An earthquake of preliminary magnitude 5.2 jolts Fukushima Prefecture and its vicinity Sunday evening.
Tokyo Electric Power Co. plans to remove all of the highly radioactive water from sunken reservoirs at its Fukushima No. 1 nuclear plant by early June, the utility’s president said after Tepco said at least three of the seven cisterns are leaking. Tepco will ...
Disappointing expectations that the megaquake and tsunami two years ago — and subsequent nuclear calamity — would trigger a rebirth of politics and government, Japan’s key policies remain largely unchanged, says Richard Samuels, director of the Center for International Studies at Massachusetts Institute of ...
Radioactive cesium was too low to detect in 99 percent of 22,000 residents examined in Fukushima Prefecture and neighboring Ibaraki, according to a University of Tokyo survey. The team, which included professor Ryugo Hayano, examined internal radiation exposure levels in the two prefectures between ...
Tokyo Electric Power Co. came under increasing pressure from the government Monday to address recent water leaks and power outages at the meltdown-stricken Fukushima No. 1 nuclear plant as nine experts who investigated the crisis said the new watchdog’s oversight was still too lax. ...
A second vast storage pool is found leaking radioactive water at the Fukushima No. 1 power plant, raising doubts about the safety of the utility's storage strategy.
A second vast storage pool is found leaking radioactive water at the Fukushima No. 1 power plant, raising doubts about the safety of the utility's storage strategy.
Around 120 tons of contaminated water with 710 billion becquerels of radioactivity probably leaked into the ground under the Fukushima No. 1 power plant, Tepco says.
The system keeping spent fuel cool in the pool for reactor 3 at the Fukushima No. 1 power plant stopped Friday and was restarted three hours later, Tokyo Electric Power Co. said. In the latest glitch at the crippled facility, an alarm sounded at ...
The no-go zone designation was lifted Monday for the town of Namie near the crippled Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant. In line with the move, the Fukushima Prefecture town was realigned into three evacuation zones according to estimated annual radiation doses. The rezoning ...
Full-fledged operation of the advanced liquid processing system (ALPS) will start in about four months after its performance is verified. Tepco said it plans to process 250 tons of irradiated water a day using the new multinuclide removal system, which has the capacity to ...
Tatsuma Hangai will be entering his third year at Namie High School in April, but he has never taken a class at the home campus in Fukushima Prefecture. The 17-year-old is one of more than 1,000 students at eight high schools in the prefecture ...