Five years after the nuclear disaster triggered by the huge earthquake and tsunami, reconstruction has made little progress in parts of Fukushima Prefecture. A Kyodo News reporter drove National Route 6 northward to the crippled Fukushima No. 1 nuclear plant to witness the lingering ...

A tiny but earnest movement is underway to seek independence for Okinawa and the other islands in the Ryukyu Islands chain. The Association of Comprehensive Studies for Independence of the Lew Chewans, which represents native residents of the islands, said in its charter that "By ...