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A sit-in by visa violators and their families entered its second day Tuesday in front of the Tokyo Regional Immigration Bureau with protesters seeking government good will. The action at the bureau in Minato Ward is being organized by the Asian People’s Friendship Society, ...
Kazuhiro Shiraishi, 66, is a guest-house manager in the Izu-kogen Highlands, a famous resort area on the Izu Peninsula of Shizuoka Prefecture. Looking out onto the Pacific Ocean, and just 90 minutes by train from Tokyo, Izu has a warm climate all year round ...
“I was stopped by two men in a government-registered vehicle, blindfolded and dragged off the street. They took me away to a house in a place I did not know. I was forced into a room with blood all over the walls and floor, ...
Takashi Miike's blood-soaked vengeance tale, one of two Japanese films being shown in competition at the Cannes Film Festival, draws the biggest boos so far, with critics savaging it as overacted and cliched.
Have you ever given your best effort while striving to achieve something but felt like what you were doing was futile? That’s the feeling I’m getting about Tokyo’s bid to host the 2020 Olympics. With just over three months to go until the IOC ...
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.
Tokyo Electric Power Co. plans to discharge some groundwater that has flowed into the premises of the crippled Fukushima No. 1 nuclear plant into the sea after finding that its radiation level is the same as in the rivers in surrounding areas, sources said ...
Sachiko Banba aches for children in Fukushima Prefecture, who worry whether they can lead a normal life.
Each spring, thousands of tourists visit the ancient capital of Kyoto to enjoy what, for many, is the quintessential Japanese experience of viewing cherry blossoms in the cradle of the nation’s traditional culture. During this time, as well as when the leaves turn in ...
Whitebait fishing resumed in the northern part of Ibaraki Prefecture on Tuesday for the first time since it was voluntarily halted due to the March 2011 Fukushima nuclear crisis. Two fishermen’s cooperatives in Kitaibaraki and one in Hitachi resumed catching whitebait, their main product, ...
Workers at the Fukushima No. 1 plant came to terms with the possibility of high radiation levels soon after the nuclear crisis started in March 2011, teleconference video footage by Tokyo Electric Power Co. shows. Staff apparently quickly perceived that being too concerned about ...
Possible radioactive traces from a North Korean nuclear test in February have been detected for the first time, although it remains unclear what fissile material Pyongyang used.
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 ...
A lightning bolt is one of nature’s most over-the-top phenomena, rarely failing to elicit at least a ping of awe no matter how many times a person has witnessed one. With his iconic kite-and-key experiments in the mid-18th century, Benjamin Franklin showed that lightning ...
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.
A website operated by a Hiroshima newspaper has posted a series of stories in English and Japanese about radiation victims across the globe, hoping to spread awareness about all such victims, not just those of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The website ...