Five students at Fukushima University are volunteering in Houston in the wake of the devastation wrought by Hurricane Harvey. The students happened to be in the disaster area as participants of an internship program at the Houston city office. They are helping with the operations ...
Areas hit hard by the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami are making an effort to create a more welcoming environment for foreign tourists in preparation for the 2019 Rugby World Cup and 2020 Olympics and Paralympics. The city of Rikuzentakata, Iwate Prefecture, is one, which ...
The government moves to reduce financial support for people with low incomes affected by the Great East Japan Earthquake and tsunami.
The government begins a two-day disaster drill based on a hypothetical nuclear accident at Kyushu Electric Power Co.’s Genkai power station in Saga Prefecture.
Ryuta Idogawa traces the onset of his battle with mental illness to a moment not long after his parents had been relocated to Saitama from their hometown of Futaba, Fukushima Prefecture, in the spring of 2011.
The Nuclear Regulation Authority will soon start talks on clearing two reactors at Tokyo Electric’s giant Kashiwazaki-Kariya nuclear plant as safe for restarts.
A motorized glider crashed in a mountainous part of Fukushima Prefecture on Sunday, killing one of the two people on board, the police said Monday. The deceased has been identified as Tokyo resident Masaki Takagi, 66. The other occupant was rescued. The two-seat glider departed from ...
Fukushima Gov. Masao Uchibori said on Friday in Ho Chi Minh City that he had reached an agreement with two Vietnamese companies to temporarily increase charter flights between Vietnam and the northeastern prefecture. Local budget carrier Vietjet Air and travel agency Vietravel agreed to boost ...
The remains of Fukushima's deceased evacuees are being left in limbo because radiation is preventing them from being buried. In municipalities that remain off-limits because of the fallout from the triple core meltdown at the Fukushima No. 1 power plant in March 2011, the inability ...
Fukushima Prefecture aims to export 100 tons of rice and 15 tons of peaches to Malaysia by next year, its governor said Wednesday, evidence of fading concern over the safety of food products from the site of the 2011 nuclear disaster. "In the aftermath of ...
The operator of the crippled Fukushima No. 1 nuclear complex began work Tuesday to extend an underground ice wall to prevent contaminated water increasing at the site. The coolant-filled wall is designed to prevent groundwater from seeping into the facilities and coming into contact with ...
Students from Fukushima Prefecture have given a symphony orchestra concert in Bangkok to thank the Thai people for their support in Japan's recovery from the March 2011 earthquake, tsunami and nuclear disaster. Through their performance at the Siam Pic-Ganesha Theater on Friday night, 40 members ...
