Government decisions alone will not return evacuees' lives to a state of normalcy.

The government and the power industry must reconsider whether they are sufficiently assessing the risks of a nuclear power plant disaster.

Japan puts up its first trade surplus in six years for 2016 at ¥4.07 trillion as imports slumped on falling energy prices.

Yokohama school officials and the municipal board of education deserve censure for their failure to stop the bullying of a schoolboy evacuee from Fukushima.

A decision by a judicial panel of citizens means former Tepco top executives will at last have to face justice in regard to the Fukushima nuclear disaster.

French satirical weekly Charlie Hebdo took aim at Tepco's crippled Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power station in its March 18 issue. A cartoon on the theme of "spring" depicts two people in protective gear talking about this year's first swallow, while looking at footprints of ...

Four years on, it's still not clear whether Tokyo Electrip Power Co. has learned anything, or why Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has not demanded accountability from the company tht gave the world its worst nuclear crisis since Chernobyl.

Four years on, there's still a long road ahead before life in the areas of Fukushima Prefecture affected by the nuclear disaster can return to normalcy.

Four years after the 3/11 disasters, the government needs to look closely at what can be done to support people in the disaster-ravaged areas of Tohoku and take flexible steps to help them stand on their feet again.