More than 70 percent of seafood wholesalers at the aging Tsukiji market in Tokyo do not want to move to the capital's newly built market in Toyosu due to strong worries about soil pollution, it was learned Tuesday. A group of women working at the ...
A storm over soil pollution and corner-cutting at the site chosen to host the Toyosu wholesale food market has centered on the presence of toxins in water that could be hazardous to human health. On Sept. 29, the Tokyo Metropolitan Government said it had sampled ...
An inquiry into corner-cutting at a polluted site selected to become Tokyo's main fish market has failed to identify who changed construction plans and why.
Benzene and arsenic were detected around an area scheduled to handle fruit and vegetables in the market, which is to replace the Tsukiji fish market.
Tokyo Gov. Yuriko Koike said Friday she would disclose the results of the Toyosu market soil pollution probe next week. At her regular news conference at Tokyo Metropolitan Government headquarters in Shinjuku Ward, Koike said she hopes to reveal all of the facts behind why ...
Hollow concrete rooms under the facility are revealed to have been designed to allow for emergency decontamination.
Hiroyasu Ito, chairman of the Tsukiji Market Association, has been "extremely shocked" twice in the past two weeks by the latest twist in the world-famous fish market's relocation plan. The chairman of major fish wholesaler Chuo Gyorui Co. had seen subsidiary Hohsui Corp. invest ¥7 ...
On Sept. 10, Tokyo Gov. Yuriko Koike revealed that the people in charge of the soil remediation work for the Toyosu market, the relocation site for the famed Tsukiji fish market in Chuo Ward, ignored the recommendations of outside safety experts. The discovery has reignited ...
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 ...
Following an 18-month battle, the Pentagon has released records detailing serious contamination on Okinawa base land slated soon for return to civilian use.
Debris cleanup work by Tokyo Electric Power Co. at the Fukushima No. 1 plant may have led to the contamination of rice crops in nearby areas.
Tokyo Electric Power Co. will build a new drainage channel at its crippled Fukushima No. 1 nuclear plant as part of efforts to prevent radioactive water from directly flowing into the Pacific when there is a storage tank spill, officials said. The current channel drains ...
