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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 ...
Japan's Itochu withdraws from nuclear power plant project in Turkey
Major trading house Itochu Corp. is backing away from a nuclear power plant project in Turkey because of a surge in safety-related costs, sources close to the matter said Tuesday. Itochu withdrew at the end of March from a consortium that had been conducting a ...
Tepco apologizes to family of 102-year-old man who committed suicide amid Fukushima nuclear crisis
Officials of the operator of the crippled Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant apologized Thursday to the family of a 102-year-old man who killed himself in the face of an evacuation order amid the 2011 nuclear crisis. The apology was issued after a court recognized ...
Russia lifts ban on Japan seafood adopted after Fukushima crisis
Russia has lifted its ban on Japanese seafood imports adopted in the wake of the Fukushima nuclear disaster. Moscow's Federal Service for Veterinary and Phytosanitary Surveillance on Friday approved seafood imports from six prefectures in northeastern and eastern Japan — Iwate, Miyagi, Yamagata, Ibaraki, Chiba ...
Japan on Sunday asked Hong Kong to scrap import restrictions on Japanese agricultural, forestry and fisheries products introduced in response to the March 2011 core meltdowns at the Fukushima No. 1 power plant. Visiting Foreign Minister Taro Kono made the request at a meeting with ...
Estimated cost of Fukushima disaster might balloon to ¥218 billion
The new estimate reflects a December 2016 Cabinet decision to raise the upper limit on financial assistance for Tokyo Electric to ¥13.5 trillion from ¥9 trillion.
Japan's nuclear regulator to hire more legal staff to respond to Fukushima-related lawsuits
Japan's nuclear regulator will increase its number of legal staff from this spring to deal with lawsuits related to the Fukushima crisis, sources close to the matter said Wednesday. The secretariat of the Nuclear Regulation Authority will increase the number of staff at an office ...
Government and Tepco again ordered to pay damages to Fukushima evacuees
Following a similar ruling on Thursday, a court on Friday again ordered the government and Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings Inc. to pay damages to residents who fled Fukushima due to the nuclear meltdowns at a power plant in 2011. The Tokyo District Court ordered ...
Japan bans use of foreign trainees for nuclear decontamination work
The government on Friday announced a total ban on technical trainees from abroad carrying out work to decontaminate areas tainted with radioactive material. The decision came after a Vietnamese trainee was recently found to have taken part in decontamination work in areas affected by the ...
Japan marks seventh anniversary of 3/11 with moment of silence
Japan observes a moment of silence to mark the seventh anniversary of the 2011 mega-quake and tsunami that left about 18,000 people dead or missing.
Fukushima No. 1 cleanup continues but radioactive water, and rumors, also prove toxic
Seven years have passed since the core meltdowns occurred in March 2011 at the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant, which shocked the world and fractured the local community. During a media tour last month, a hazard map of the crippled nuclear plant was shown ...
Vietnamese trainee alleges he was misled into taking part in Fukushima decontamination work
The government is investigating a case involving a Vietnamese man in the foreign trainee program who alleges he was duped into taking part in 3/11 decontamination work.
