National / Politics Oct 19, 2015
Abe pledges government action in decommissioning Fukushima No. 1
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe promises that the central government will take the initiative in dismantling the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear plant.
National Jul 30, 2014
Government offers ¥230 billion over 30 years if Fukushima temporarily stores radioactive soil: NHK
The administration of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has offered to pay the Fukushima Prefectural Government ¥230 billion over the next 30 years if the prefecture hosts temporary storage facilities for soil tainted by radiation from the March 2011 nuclear disaster, NHK reported Wednesday. But Fukushima ...
National Mar 9, 2014
Naraha won't get waste storage site
At the request of Fukushima Gov. Yohei Sato, the government has decided to exclude one of three towns from the radioactive waste storage plan being developed in response to Fukushima nuclear crisis, sources close to the matter said. The feuding between Tokyo and the tainted ...
Lifestyle Mar 8, 2014
Still hunting shadows three years after 3/11
by Jun Hongo
One of the great statistical mysteries that persist several years after a natural disaster is the figure that appears without fail each month in columns representing the number of people that are still missing. Almost three years after the Great East Japan Earthquake and tsunami ...
National Feb 13, 2014
Residents of Fukushima town reject government's waste storage plans
Fukushima Gov. Yuhei Sato urged the central government Wednesday to drop one of three towns from a list of sites earmarked for the construction of facilities to store highly radioactive waste from the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear plant disaster. "We want the government to consider ...