National Mar 10, 2021
The transfer of the waste to an interim storage site is expected to be completed in the fiscal year starting next month.
Business Mar 3, 2021
Fukushima nuclear plant decommissioning draws attention of local businesses
More than 100 local companies have registered for business meetings in the six months since the launch of a support center tasked with helping match firms and contractors.
National Mar 9, 2020
Olympic torch relay faces cool welcome from nuclear evacuees in Fukushima No. 1 town
by Mari Saito and Kiyoshi Takenaka
Dressed in protective plastic coveralls and white boots, Yuji Onuma stood in front of the row of derelict buildings that included his house, and sighed as he surveyed his old neighborhood. On the once-bustling main street, reddish weeds poked out of cracked pavement in front ...
National Dec 13, 2018
One of the municipalities that hosts the crisis-hit Fukushima No. 1 nuclear plant is considering lifting restrictions on daytime access in spring 2020 to an area being rebuilt in the town center, sources close to the matter said Thursday. The town of Futaba, Fukushima Prefecture, ...
National | 3/11: Rebuilding Tohoku Mar 8, 2018
Futaba's nuclear crisis museum will let objects tell the story of 3/11 meltdowns
by Hidetoshi Takada
Takamitsu Yoshino, 57, a former curator at the town's historical museum, collects loads of items like makeshift tables and changing rooms made of cardboard boxes, along with counseling notices and even a volunteer reception sign. At first glance, they appear to be a jumble of ...
National / Media | MEDIA MIX Feb 17, 2018
Media reports de-romanticize the cleanup work on the Fukushima nuclear power plant
by Philip Brasor
Most of the reliable reporting about the clean-up of the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant since it suffered three meltdowns in March 2011 has been from on-site workers. Even when articles appear in major media outlets about the situation at the crippled reactor, ...
National May 11, 2017
Fire crews finally extinguish Fukushima blaze in no-go zone as officials battle radiation rumors
A wildfire near the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear plant has finally been extinguished after a 12-day battle waged by firefighters and Self-Defense Force troops in special protective gear left 75 hectares of tainted forest scorched, and local officials scrambling to quash radiation rumors. The wildfire, ...
National May 27, 2015
Tepco says all radioactive water in Fukushima No. 1 tanks filtered
The operator of the crippled Fukushima No. 1 nuclear plant said Wednesday it had finished filtering 620,000 tons of extremely toxic water stored in tanks on the premises of the complex to lower its radiation level. Tokyo Electric Power Co. says the risk of radiation ...
National | 3/11 STILL BEING FELT Mar 11, 2015
Fukushima No. 1's never-ending battle with radioactive water
by Kazuaki Nagata
The disaster that struck four years ago may have abated for most of the Tohoku region, but the nightmare continues at Tepco’s wrecked Fukushima No. 1 nuclear plant.
Issues | THE FOREIGN ELEMENT Mar 8, 2015
Labor of love left to wither and die in Fukushima
by Liane Wakabayashi
Forced to abandon his life's work, the 72-year-old creator of a renowned rose garden in Fukushima wants Tepco to compensate him and allow him to start over.
Food & Drink | NAGOYA RESTAURANTS Dec 30, 2014
Take part in tradition at Futaba
by Adam Miller
While many osechi ryōri (traditional New Year's dishes) are not exactly adored by a lot of people, there is one simple meal that seems universally loved: toshikoshi soba. Awkwardly translated to "year-crossing soba," the toshikoshi variety is eaten at family dinners when the new year ...
National Sep 15, 2014
Cars allowed to use highway section closed by Fukushima nuclear crisis
The government had lifted a vehicle ban on National Route 6 through the area where residency is restricted due to the crippled Fukushima No. 1 plant, the first time that stretch of highway has been open to automobiles since the nuclear crisis began in ...