Economy | ANALYSIS
Households to take hit from tax hike
by Tomoko Otake
The consumption tax increase will hit every household in Japan hard, with many people’s financial future hanging on whether their wages rise enough to offset the hike's impact.
National Oct 3, 2013
New radioactive water leak found at Fukushima No. 1: Tepco
Tokyo Electric Power Co. says it has found that an unspecified amount of water contaminated with a highly concentrated radioactive substance escaped from another storage tank at the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear plant and some may have reached the Pacific Ocean. Tepco said Wednesday ...
National Sep 30, 2013
Tepco resumes water filtration at Fukushima nuke plant
The shutdown of the ALPS water treatment system at the Fukushima No. 1 plant is linked to a rubber mat apparently left in a water tank.
National Sep 28, 2013
Tepco halts trial of water treatment system at Fukushima No. 1 plant
Tokyo Electric Power Co. said Saturday it has halted a trial run of its much-vaunted water treatment system at the Fukushima No. 1 plant just a day after it resumed operations. At around 10:40 p.m. Friday, Tepco detected technical problems with line C of ...
National Sep 26, 2013
Bad weather damages silt fence at No. 1 plant
by Reiji Yoshida
Poor weather has again damaged a silt fence in the ocean erected to contain radioactive material escaping from the crippled Fukushima No. 1 nuclear plant.
National Sep 25, 2013
Tepco finds chinks around two bolts in leaky tank
by Kazuaki Nagata
Tokyo Electric manages to uncover bolt chinks in the storage tank from which 300 tons of highly radioactive water escaped with barely a trace last month.
National Sep 18, 2013
IAEA members give grief over leaks
Japan is coming under fire from other members of the International Atomic Energy Agency for its slow response to the radioactive water leaks at the stricken Fukushima No. 1 nuclear complex. At a briefing Tuesday about the leaks on the fringes of an ongoing ...
National Sep 17, 2013
1,130 tons of tainted rainwater dumped at nuke plant
Tepco says it dumped about 1,130 tons of tainted rainwater Monday into the Pacific after it accumulated at the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear plant due to the passing typhoon.
National Sep 16, 2013
Tepco discharges tainted rainwater from storage tank areas
Tainted rainwater was discharged into the ocean Monday to prevent the damaged Fukushima No. 1 power plant from being flooded by the passage of Typhoon Man-yi, Tokyo Electric Power Co. said. The radioactivity of the rainwater, which had accumulated within circular barriers around makeshift ...
National Sep 13, 2013
Toxic drain water may have run into Pacific
Tepco finds a radioactive cocktail of substances in a drainage ditch leading directly to the Pacific Ocean nearby the Fukushima No. 1 plant.
National Sep 12, 2013
Tanks, not leak, main problem at Fukushima
by Reiji Yoshida
The radioactive water tainting the sea from the Fukushima No. 1 plant may be generating headlines, but an expert says its storage tanks pose a greater danger.
National Sep 11, 2013
No. 1 chief pleased with Olympics bid; tritium reading doubles
by Kazuaki Nagata
The head of the leaking Fukushima No. 1 plant expresses relief at Tokyo winning the 2020 Olympics while disclosing yet another leap in groundwater radiation.
National Sep 10, 2013
Abe's assurance to IOC on nuclear plant called into question
by Reiji Yoshida
One question that emerged among the public immediately after Tokyo won the right to host the 2020 Olympics was whether Prime Minister Shinzo Abe made an incorrect statement, or told an outright lie, about the contaminated water issue at the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear ...