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Fukushima town works to revive herb vital to its frozen rice cake delicacy
A breeze rustles through leaves of oyamabokuchi plants on a farm in Katsurao, a village in Fukushima Prefecture. The herb, an edible variety of thistle, is normally found in the mountains. It is ground up and mixed with rice to produce a local delicacy called ...
Tepco to deploy robot for first contact with melted fuel from Fukushima No. 1 nuclear disaster
The owner of the wrecked Fukushima No. 1 power plant is trying this week to touch melted fuel at the bottom of the plant for the first time since the disaster almost eight years ago, a tiny but key step toward retrieving the radioactive ...
Japan's Reconstruction Agency to air ad for Fukushima products on TV, online and at cinemas
The Reconstruction Agency said Friday that it will run a television commercial advertising farm, fishery and forestry products made in Fukushima Prefecture for about a week from Saturday. The 30-second spot is aimed at dispelling harmful rumors about the safety of products from the prefecture ...
Radioactive cesium above legal limit detected in fish caught off Fukushima
The Fukushima Prefecture fisheries cooperatives association says radioactive cesium exceeding the state limit has been detected in fish caught offshore for the first time in about four years.
Toshiba unveils robot with tongs to probe melted Fukushima nuclear fuel
Toshiba Corp. unveiled a remote-controlled robot with tongs on Monday that it hopes will be able to probe the inside of one of the three damaged reactors at Japan's tsunami-hit Fukushima nuclear plant and grip chunks of highly radioactive melted fuel. The device is designed ...
Governor promotes Fukushima food in Hong Kong amid post-disaster import restrictions
Fukushima Gov. Masao Uchibori, on a visit to Hong Kong which kicked off Thursday, has worked to promote the safety of food from his prefecture, home to the heavily damaged Fukushima No. 1 nuclear plant. Hong Kong introduced restrictions on food imports from the prefecture ...
On the sidelines of the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting on Wednesday, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe made a sales pitch for sake produced in Fukushima Prefecture. At the Japan Night event in Davos, Abe advertised Yamato no Kokoro, produced in Fukushima's Aizuwakamatsu from rice that ...
Students tasked with developing dishes using Fukushima produce to promote prefecture's recovery
A group of elementary, junior high and high school students in the city of Fukushima are taking part in an initiative to develop original recipes using local agricultural products as part of a broader project to highlight the city's recovery from the 2011 Great ...
Japan farming co-op federation to resume Niigata rice exports to China this month
The National Federation of Agricultural Cooperative Associations (JA Zen-Noh) will resume sales of rice produced in Niigata Prefecture to China later this month after a break of nearly eight years. Niigata rice exports were suspended following the triple core meltdown at Tokyo Electric Power Company ...
Taiwan negotiating with Japan on 'acceptable' solution to food ban
Taiwan President Tsai Ing-wen says her government is seeking an “acceptable” solution to the thorny issue of the island’s import ban on Japanese food products imposed after the 2011 Fukushima nuclear disaster.
2020 Olympic torches to be made of recycled aluminum from Fukushima temporary housing
Recycled aluminum from temporary housing in disaster-hit Fukushima Prefecture is expected to be used in the crafting of Tokyo 2020 Olympic torches, sources have said. The plan, revealed Monday, is likely to attract interest in Japan and abroad as being another symbolic effort to uphold ...
Fukushima launches multilingual emergency call service as number of foreign residents rebounds
The prefectural police and fire departments in Fukushima have started multilingual services aimed at non-Japanese speakers making emergency calls amid a rising number of foreign visitors in the run-up to the Tokyo 2020 Olympics and Paralympics. On Dec. 1 the prefectural police began offering services ...
