Fukushima No. 1

Three former senior executives of Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings Inc. are acquitted of professional negligence relating to the 2011 crisis at the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant.

Ichiro Matsui, the mayor of Osaka and head of Nippon Ishin no Kai, said Tuesday that water tainted by radioactive tritium from the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant could — if proven environmentally safe — be sent to Osaka and dumped into Osaka ...

Koizumi said he wants to make Japan a leader in environmental issues and speak with Fukushima’s fishermen about what to do with Tepco’s radiation-tainted water.

The Nuclear Regulation Authority decided Wednesday to resume a probe into the causes of meltdowns in 2011 at the Fukushima No. 1 power plant, having determined that radiation levels have fallen enough to allow investigators to access the site. The nation's nuclear watchdog will seek ...

The Environment Ministry started dismantling on Tuesday the former off-site center in Fukushima Prefecture that was used by the central government's task force to deal with the aftermath of the March 2011 nuclear disaster. The Fukushima Prefectural Government expressed its intention in August last year ...

Fishery industry stakeholders in Fukushima Prefecture expressed anger over Environment Minister Yoshiaki Harada's remarks Tuesday that Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings Inc. will have to dump radioactive water from its destroyed Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant directly into the Pacific Ocean. The remarks are ...

Government officials on Wednesday told diplomats they were still considering options for handling contaminated water at the disaster-hit Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant amid worries the water may be dumped into the ocean. A massive amount of tainted water — more than a million ...

The agriculture ministry said Tuesday it will send officials to 12 municipalities in Fukushima Prefecture that were hit by the 2011 nuclear disaster to help farmers there resume agricultural production. From April 2020, one official will be stationed in each of the 12 municipalities near ...

Japan should learn from overseas efforts in order to smoothly decommission nuclear reactors, a government report said Monday. In its fiscal 2018 nuclear white paper, the Japan Atomic Energy Commission of the Cabinet Office underscored the importance of capitalizing on lessons learned from decommissioning projects ...

The Foreign Ministry hopes to more than double its budget for activities related to the World Trade Organization in fiscal 2020 after losing a dispute over a South Korean ban on imports of Japanese seafood.