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Silvio Berlusconi has failed in his attempt to topple the Italian government, leaving him weaker than ever and zapping the aura of invincibility that has surrounded him for two decades as he faces the possible loss of his Senate seat and a ban from ...
Hatsudai has a lot going for it. This quiet low-rise residential neighborhood just minutes west of Shinjuku boasts a friendly traditional shōtengai (shopping street) and a lively annual Awa Odori dance festival. Now add to that a really outstanding restaurant. Anis opened in early ...
International events undermine Japan's democracy. Shame on the International Olympic Committee for being a party to it.
In the glitzy and gossipy world of Japanese celebrity, hardly a week goes by without revelations being made about — or made by — Ichikawa Ebizo XI. For years, the charismatic young star of the kabuki world has never long been out of the ...
Reigning champion Kei Nishikori made quick work of Feliciano Lopez, walloping the Spaniard in a straight-sets victory Thursday to reach the quarterfinals of the Rakuten Japan Open. The world No. 13 Nishikori needed little over an hour to put away Lopez, 7-6 (7-4), 6-0 ...
On his second tour of Fukushima No. 1, Prime Minister Abe recycles his "under control" claims from Buenos Aires, requests a deadline for filtering the radioactive water and urges the decommissioning of units 5 and 6.
Tepco put off a plan to create frozen soil shields around Fukushima No. 1 in 2011 after the exorbitant cost raised fears of a bad stock market reaction.
An entry point for some of the groundwater flooding the crippled Fukushima No. 1 plant is found at reactor 1.
Tokyo Electric Power Co.’s inexact monitoring of contaminated water stored at Fukushima No. 1 may have led the company to overstate last week’s storage tank leak, according to the Nuclear Regulation Authority. The loss of 300 metric tons that Tepco reported was based on ...
Tepco's radioactive water problems at its crippled Fukushima No. 1 nuclear plant seem uncontainable, ranging from leaking tanks to highly radioactive groundwater flowing to the sea.
The public must fund Tepco's effort to freeze the soil around the crippled Fukushima No. 1 reactors to prevent more groundwater from becoming radioactive, Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga says.
An estimated 360 liters of radioactive water has leaked from a desalination unit at the ruined Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant, Tokyo Electric Power Co. said Friday. The utility said water did not leave the complex but did not disclose its radiation level. ...
More than two years into the triple-meltdown crisis at the Fukushima No. 1 power plant, workers continue to wage a desperate battle to keep the stricken reactors cool while trying to contain the 400 tons of radioactive water produced by the process each day.
There are further leaks of radioactive water during work to transfer water from a leaking sunken reservoir at Tokyo Electric Power Co.'s Fukushima No. 1 power station.
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.