As survivors of the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami cope with the loss of their families, homes and livelihoods, some of the younger generation are focusing their energies on helping people elsewhere in Asia. Haruka Kurosawa, 19, lived through the 2011 calamity and afterward ...
A couple from Nagoya have been posting daily pictures of heart-shaped images dedicated to those cleaning up the mess at the crippled Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant and other disaster-stricken parts of the Tohoku region. On the fourth anniversary of the quake-tsunami tragedy, ...
Tokyo Electric Power Co. admitted Thursday that its latest problem with radioactive water has shattered the trust it was building in Fukushima, especially among fishermen, and that the decommissioning of the Fukushima No. 1 plant might be delayed. “To make progress with the decommissioning ...
Local fishermen slammed Tepco after it emerged that water containing radioactive isotopes has been draining into the Pacific near the ruined nuclear plant for months.
Fukushima Gov. Masao Uchibori said Tuesday he will allow the transfer of radioactive soil to a provisional site in the prefecture. The provisional site is part of a planned interim storage facility for soil and other radioactive waste from decontamination work in the prefecture ...
Sensors at the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear plant have detected a fresh leak of highly radioactive water to the sea, the plant’s operator announced Sunday, highlighting continued difficulties in decommissioning the crippled atomic station. Tokyo Electric Power Co. said the sensors, which were rigged ...
Five nuclear plant operators have spent nearly ¥100 billion on imports of plutonium-uranium mixed oxide (MOX) fuel since it was first shipped to Japan in 1999, sources say.
The Fukushima Prefectural Government may approve the delivery of radioactive soil and other waste at interim storage facilities that are under construction.
Police said the teen, who is from Aichi Prefecture, was sent to Fukushima to cut contaminated leaves and scrape up dirt in the disaster zone last July.
Some headway has been made in the massive decommissioning effort at Tepco’s wrecked Fukushima No. 1 nuclear plant over the past year, an inspection team from the International Atomic Energy Agency said on Tuesday — but there are still a number of challenges, including ...
Local residents in Fukushima Prefecture saw the return of public transportation on Jan. 31 after East Japan Railway Co. began a bus service that passes through the exclusion zone around the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear plant. The service, which connects the JR Joban Line’s ...
A child in Fukushima Prefecture has been diagnosed with thyroid cancer in the latest health survey to assess the impact of the triple core meltdown that blanketed the region with radiation in 2011. Seven others in the survey of 385,000 children in Fukushima Prefecture ...
