FamilyMart Co. reopened a convenience store Friday in the town of Naraha, most of which remains a designated evacuation zone from the 2011 core meltdowns in Fukushima Prefecture. The store, located along a national highway on the Pacific coast, was closed after being engulfed ...
The National Federation of Fisheries Cooperative Associations called on the Abe administration Tuesday not to allow the release of radioactive water from the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear plant into the sea. The request came after the Nuclear Regulation Authority concluded that it will be ...
In the days of uncertainty immediately following the March 2011 Fukushima nuclear disaster, documentary filmmaker Masako Sakata turned to a book written by her late mother, an anti-nuclear campaigner, to try to make sense of what was happening. The book, “Please Listen,” is a ...
Tokyo Electric Power Co. has said it will suspend decommissioning work at the wrecked Fukushima No. 1 power plant until it completes safety checks related to two fatal accidents at its facilities in the prefecture this week. “The most important thing is to thoroughly ...
Two workers are killed in separate incidents at the Fukushima No. 1 power plant and the nearby No. 2 complex amid complaints that Tepco has done too little to improve safety conditions.
For the first time since the triple meltdown at the Fukushima No. 1 plant throttled the agriculture-reliant prefecture, all rice produced there last year cleared the required radiation tests. The Fukushima Prefectural Government last year checked every bag of rice produced in the prefecture ...
Some of the people seeking a court injunction to halt the restart of Kyushu Electric Power Co.’s nuclear plant in the town of Sendai, Kagoshima Prefecture, have dropped their petitions, their lawyers said. Around 10 of the 23 people who sought the injunction last ...
A group of people file a second criminal complaint against a former nuclear safety official and eight others, arguing they failed to take necessary preventive measures in the Fukushima nuclear crisis.
South Korean food safety inspectors will pay a second visit to Japan next week before deciding whether to lift a ban on imported marine products, the Foreign Ministry said Friday. During its four-day inspection, the team of South Korean researchers and consumer representatives will ...
Niigata Gov. Hirohiko Izumida remained at odds Tuesday with Tokyo Electric Power Co. President Naomi Hirose over the restart of reactors at Tepco’s Kashiwazaki-Kariwa nuclear power plant in the prefecture, saying the utility has not done enough to probe the reasons behind the March ...
The number of workers injured at the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear plant this fiscal year, which ends March 31, far exceeded the 2013 figure by November, Tokyo Electric Power Co. officials said. The rise mainly reflects an increase in the overall number of workers ...
There are significant questions over where radioactive material from the 2011 nuclear accident will be permanently stored after plans to build repositories have encountered heavy opposition from candidate municipalities.
