Torrential rain exceeding 100 mm per hour hit Kyushu early Tuesday morning, prompting the Meteorological Agency to issue warnings for landslides and floods, NHK reported Tuesday. According to the agency, heavy rain was reported in the city of Yatsushiro and the town of Hikawa in ...
It's like a dream to once again be able to live in my "home, sweet home." That's what Hidezo Sato, 72, says he feels every day since returning to his fallout-hit hometown of Namie, Fukushima Prefecture. The government partially lifted its nuclear evacuation order on March ...
A district court on Tuesday dismissed a request from about 230 local residents for an injunction to stop the restart of two reactors at Kyushu Electric Power Co.'s Genkai nuclear power plant in Saga Prefecture over safety concerns. The Saga District Court handed down the ...
With North Korea test-launching missiles on a regular basis toward Japan, towns, cities and prefectures are getting more serious about how best to respond if and when one approaches. Parts of the Kansai region along the Sea of Japan coast appear to lie within range ...
Masahiro Imamura, minister for disaster reconstruction, withdrew on Friday controversial remarks he made stating that the people who voluntarily evacuated from areas tainted by the March 2011 nuclear disaster should take responsibility for their own decisions. "I regret that I caused misunderstandings," Imamura told a ...
The radiation evacuation area in Fukushima Prefecture will shrink to 30 percent of its initial size by April 1, six years after the March 2011 meltdowns at the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear plant. Of the 11 municipalities within the originally designated evacuation area, five have ...
Authorities in the northern Greek city of Thessaloniki evacuated an estimated 75,000 people Sunday so army experts could defuse a 500-pound (227-kg) unexploded World War II bomb found under a gas station. The evacuation started at 7 a.m. Police went house-to-house ringing bells and knocking ...
The magnitude-7.4 aftershock that rocked Fukushima Prefecture and its vicinity last week, more than five years after the mega-quake and tsunami of March 2011, triggered fresh nuclear concerns in the Kansai region, which hosts Kansai Electric Power Co.'s Mihama plant in Fukui Prefecture. The aftershock ...
The Tottori Prefectural Government is running a campaign to attract tourists via social networking services after tour cancellations spiked in the wake of the powerful earthquake that struck the prefecture a month ago. The campaign awards tourists with local specialties if they post reports about ...
New Zealand emergency services and defense personnel began evacuating hundreds of tourists and residents from the South Island town of Kaikoura on Tuesday, a day after a powerful earthquake hit the region, killing two people. The 7.8-magnitude tremor, which struck just after midnight on Sunday, ...
Some 23,000 people participated in an evacuation drill Friday based on a hypothetical accident involving the No. 3 reactor at Shikoku Electric Power Co.'s Ikata nuclear plant in Ehime Prefecture. It was the second such drill conducted by the prefectural government since the reactor resumed ...
As Kumamoto Prefecture on Friday marked six months since two powerful quakes hit the region, some 200 residents are still living in evacuation centers while many others are residing in temporary housing in hopes of rebuilding their homes. As of Thursday, the number of people ...
