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Fukushima Prefecture radiation monitoring posts installed after 3/11 hit by glitches
Some 3,000 radiation monitoring devices installed in Fukushima Prefecture after the 2011 Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant disaster have been hit by glitches and other problems nearly 4,000 times, sources familiar with the matter said Sunday. The Nuclear Regulation Authority, which operates the devices ...
Through the lens: Japanese photographers explore nuclear narratives
Whether it's the work of Robert Capa in the Spanish Civil War (1936-39) or Richard Drew's iconic "Falling Man" picture of a man free-falling from the World Trade Center in 2001, photography has provided us with the images that we've used to visualize every ...
Pacific isle nations call out North Korea for first time, demanding concrete denuclearization steps
The two-day summit in Fukushima Prefecture wraps up with a joint declaration of the leaders' commitment to pressure tactics and a call for concrete action toward denuclearization.
Fukushima tops national sake competition for record-setting sixth year
Fukushima Prefecture is home to the largest number of award-winning sake brands for the sixth year in a row, marking a record in an annual competition, the National Research Institute of Brewing said Thursday. Nineteen brands from the prefecture won the Gold Prize at the ...
Aspiring brewer taps Fukushima town's hops in bid to boost sagging farming industry
"I can't wait to drink delicious beer made from homegrown hops," Makoto Honma, the president of Hop Japan Inc., told farmers with a smile in April when he visited them in Tamura, Fukushima Prefecture. While his company was originally intended to focus on the production ...
Fukushima silk maker's 'fairy feather' threads helping to revitalize traditional industry
A producer of luxury silk is helping revitalize the traditional textile industry — and inspire the local community — in a town devastated by the 3/11 disasters of 2011. The ultra-fine "fairy feather" silk threads made by Saiei-Orimono Co. were recognized as the world's thinnest ...
Chiba Prefecture officials are promoting its agricultural products in Taiwan, hoping to debunk rumors that the products are still contaminated by nuclear substances following the 2011 Fukushima nuclear disaster. "Our agricultural products meet safety standards," Narushi Kaji, the director of the Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries ...
Fukushima residents fight state plan to build roads with radiation-tainted soil
Starting with trials in the city of Nihonmatsu in May, the Environment Ministry plans to use radiation-tainted soil to build roads in Fukushima Prefecture — but residents are not so enthusiastic.
More Vietnamese trainees made to conduct Fukushima decontamination work, union says
Three more Vietnamese men in a foreign trainee program in Japan were made to take part in radioactive decontamination work in Fukushima Prefecture, which was devastated by the March 2011 nuclear crisis, their supporters said Wednesday. The Justice Ministry's Immigration Bureau is conducting a probe, ...
Doubts cloud Minamisoma robotics project as Fukushima attempts to revive tsunami-hit city
A coastal area in Fukushima Prefecture's Minamisoma, which seven years ago was overtaken by tsunami debris, is set to be resurrected as a major robotics research site. The Fukushima Robot Test Field, a 50-hectare site being built by the Fukushima Prefectural Government, is meant to ...
The Diet on Friday enacted special legislation to maintain the number of Fukushima Prefectural Assembly seats allotted to a region that has been depopulated due to the 2011 nuclear crisis. The Upper House unanimously approved the legislation — initiated by lawmakers at the request of ...
Four days before the Great East Japan Earthquake, nuclear regulators were stunned by an estimate that a massive tsunami could hit Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings Inc.'s Fukushima No. 1 power plant, a Tepco employee testified Wednesday. At a meeting on March 7, 2011, the ...
