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JAPAN
Jun 11, 2018

Emperor and Empress attend last national tree-planting event during visit to Tohoku

Emperor Akihito and Empress Michiko attended an annual national tree-planting festival, the last such event for the couple, in the tsunami-hit city of Minamisoma, Fukushima Prefecture, on Sunday.
JAPAN
Mar 11, 2016

Japan marks fifth anniversary of devastating 3/11 disasters

Millions observe a moment of silence across the nation to mark the fifth anniversary of the March 2011 quake and tsunami.
JAPAN / FUKUSHIMA FILE
Nov 15, 2015

Tainted cities irate over Tepco's slow compensation payments: survey

Tokyo Electric Power Co. has paid a mere 11.4 percent of the ¥55.3 billion in nuclear redress claims filed by municipalities damaged by the Fukushima disaster, a survey shows, and some are seeking action to speed the process up.
Japan Times
BASKETBALL
May 3, 2015

Big Bulls trample Firebonds to advance to Eastern Conference semis

An abundance of highlight reel plays raised the excitement level for the already ecstatic home fans.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Mar 10, 2014

Life indoors exacts toll on Koriyama children

Some of the smallest children in Koriyama, a short drive from the ruined Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant, barely know what it's like to play outside — fear of radiation has kept them indoors for much of their short lives.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Aug 26, 2013

Outside help offered to deal with Tepco debacle

Russia repeated an offer first made two years ago to help Japan clean up its radiation-ravaged Fukushima No. 1 nuclear station, welcoming Tokyo Electric Power Co.'s decision to seek outside help.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Voices / HOTLINE TO NAGATACHO
Jan 14, 2013

Advising Abe on the wisdom of a nuclear restart

Readers offer some advice to the new prime minister on the contentious issue of nuclear power in post-3/11 Japan.
JAPAN
Nov 18, 2011

Fukushima to ban rice grown in Onami

The government on Thursday banned shipments of rice harvested in the Onami district in the city of Fukushima after one farm's product registered levels of radioactive cesium above the provisional limit.
COMMENTARY / COUNTERPOINT
Oct 23, 2011

Post-Fukushima, 'they' can no longer be trusted — if ever they could

Every year when I was a child, my parents would take my brother and me from our Los Angeles home to Las Vegas on vacation. Back then in the 1950s, Vegas was still a family-oriented holiday destination. Dad would drop a few bucks at the crap table while the rest of us basked in the sun.
JAPAN
Jul 13, 2011

Fukushima plant site originally was a hill safe from tsunami

First of two parts
JAPAN / ANALYSIS
May 29, 2011

G-8 differ in reactions to Fukushima

While the Group of Eight wrapped up their two-day summit in Deauville, France, by agreeing on the need to better define international standards for nuclear safety, its member nations differ in their reactions to the nuclear disaster at the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear plant.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Mar 20, 2011

Disaster analysis you may not hear elsewhere

The seemingly limited information being provided by both the government and the operating company, Tokyo Electric Power Co. (TEPCO), about the ongoing disaster at the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant is a source of widespread public concern.
Japan Times
JAPAN / CABINET INTERVIEW
Sep 28, 2009

Fukushima faces major consumer affairs challenge

Mizuho Fukushima, the new state minister in charge of consumer affairs and reversing the low birthrate, said her job is to prioritize policies that directly affect the public's livelihood and to make sure the new Consumer Affairs Agency is effective.
Japan Times
JAPAN / PREFECTURAL FARE
Nov 16, 2002

Fukushima tourist office gives natives taste of home

Kotaro Takamura's poem about a homesick woman in Tokyo pining for her native Fukushima Prefecture more than 60 years ago could just as easily have been written about many of the displaced locals living in the capital these days.
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / PERSONALITY PROFILE
Jun 2, 2001

Glen S. Fukushima

"To me, the U.S. and Japan are fascinating, as they stand at polar extremes in the way their societies are organized. Philosophy, culture, history set Japan apart from other industrialized countries, especially the U.S. Having spent many years in both the U.S. and Japan, I enjoy assisting the two peoples...
BUSINESS
Jan 17, 2000

Fukushima exits chamber on bright note

To the eyes of the former president of the American Chamber of Commerce in Japan, the Japanese business environment has changed over the last several years, thanks in part to an influx of foreign companies and capital.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Regional Voices: Fukushima
Dec 12, 2022

Miyagi fisheries industry fears impact of treated radioactive water release

The water, which contains hard-to-remove tritium, is expected to be discharged to the ocean from the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear plant as early as next spring.
JAPAN
Jan 4, 2021

Japan's carbon neutrality dilemma: More nuclear power or more renewables?

Suga's declaration the nation would achieve net zero by 2050 has touched off a debate over the best way to provide a safe, stable, secure and green energy.
JAPAN / Politics / Decision 2017
Oct 20, 2017

Campaigns focus on economy and Constitution, but nuclear disaster-hit Fukushima sees other priorities

For Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, the two biggest election-defining issues of Sunday's Lower House poll are how to spend the additional revenue from the planned consumption tax hike in 2019 and how to deal with North Korea's nuclear threat. Leaders from other parties see either proposing or preventing revisions...
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
Jun 30, 2017

Ex-Tepco execs plead innocent as 3/11 nuclear negligence trial kicks off

Three former Tokyo Electric execs go on trial over the triple core meltdown in Fukushima, claiming they could not foresee that giant tsunami would overwhelm the plant.
EDITORIALS
Mar 10, 2017

Six years after the 3/11 disasters

Efforts to reconstruct the lives of people thrown out of their homes by the 3/11 disasters remain woefully uncompleted.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Society
Oct 26, 2016

Namie radiation evacuees fear return

Weed-engulfed buildings and shuttered businesses paint an eerie picture of a coastal Japanese town abandoned after a monstrous earthquake and tsunami triggered meltdowns in the Fukushima nuclear plant.

Longform

After the asset-price bubble crash of the early 1990s, employment at a Japanese company was no longer necessarily for life. As a result, a new generation is less willing to endure a toxic work culture —life’s too short, after all.
How Japan's youth are slowly changing the country's work ethic