Sendai court blames lack of local government plan for deaths of school children in 2011 tsunami
The ruling said that the school, sited up to 1.5 meters above sea level, should have been designated in the city’s hazard map as being vulnerable to tsunami.
Media reports de-romanticize the cleanup work on the Fukushima nuclear power plant
Most of the reliable reporting about the clean-up of the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant since it suffered three meltdowns in March 2011 has been from on-site workers. Even when articles appear in major media outlets about the situation at the crippled reactor, ...
Fukui's push for reactor restarts reflects local economy's reliance on nuclear power
Fukui Gov. Issei Nishikawa's decision on Monday to give the go-ahead to restarting two reactors at the Oi nuclear plant highlights the local economy's dependence on nuclear power, even 6½ years after the March 2011 Fukushima disaster. At a news conference, Nishikawa offered what he ...
International disaster prevention forum begins in tsunami-hit Sendai
Disaster prevention experts from Japan and abroad gathered in Sendai on Saturday to discuss lessons learned from the earthquake and tsunami that devastated coastal communities throughout Tohoku in 2011. The first World Bosai Forum, incorporating the Japanese word meaning disaster mitigation, was organized by the ...
Westinghouse discussing group bid for Saudi nuclear tender, sources say
Toshiba-owned Westinghouse is in talks with other U.S-based companies to form a consortium to bid in a multibillion-dollar tender for two nuclear power reactors in Saudi Arabia, three industry sources said. Saudi Arabia, the world's top oil producer, sent a request for information (RFI) to ...
Plaintiffs file appeal to win bigger payout over Fukushima nuclear disaster
A lawyer representing the group said the “level and scope of compensation” awarded by a lower court is insufficient.
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 ...
As reconstruction advances, Tohoku tsunami survivors stress the need to keep memories alive
Yuko Tanno, a supermarket worker who survived the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami in the Tohoku region, says she will definitely move back to her old neighborhood, where she lost her 13-year-old son to the massively high waves. "The landscape is different from the time ...
Government, Tepco ordered to pay ¥500 million in damages for Fukushima disaster
In second ruling of its kind among 30 similar lawsuits, court says 3/11 quake and tsunami were foreseeable.
Woman's battered corpse found in Miyagi coastal park dedicated to 3/11 victims
Police started an investigation Monday after a woman's corpse was found in a Miyagi Prefecture park dedicated to victims of the 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake and tsunami. An autopsy determined that the woman sustained a broken thighbone and ribs, indicating the cause of death ...
Drawing on Japan's flowers of the flock
Masumi Yamanaka, curator of "Flora Japonica," an exhibition of 80 taxonomically correct illustrations of Japanese plants, talks about the dedication that drives botanical art.
Spent nuclear fuel removal at Fukushima plant pushed back again
The government says new technical issues and the need to take safety precautions led to the latest change, the third delay in the removal plan since its inception.
