Analysis
April 12, 2011
One month after the Great East Japan Earthquake struck, The Asahi Shimbun re-examined the events surrounding the accident at the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant to...
April 09, 2011
Despite shattered nerves and high stress in disaster-hit areas of northeastern Japan, the response to Thursday's huge aftershock was an encouraging sign that lessons have been...
April 06, 2011
While changes improved safety at the Fukushima No. 2 nuclear power plant, overconfidence, complacency and high costs stymied such action at the now-crippled Fukushima No. 1...
April 05, 2011
A major task facing government officials dealing with the Great East Japan Earthquake was how to transmit reports about the unprecedented damage to a worldwide audience.
April 04, 2011
The true scale of the destruction to Japan's economy wrought by the March 11 earthquake and the Fukushima nuclear crisis is starting to become apparent, with some communities...
April 02, 2011
The March 11 tsunami inundated nearly 500 square kilometers of land--an area more than twice the size of Osaka city--and left wide stretches still under water, aerial...
April 02, 2011
The Tokyo Electric Power Co. announced Friday that the tremors that shook the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant during the March 11 earthquake exceeded plant's...
March 30, 2011
BEIJING--The crisis at Japan's Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant has forced China to review plans to aggressively expand its own nuclear power generation program.
March 30, 2011
BANGKOK--Japan may have to revise its greenhouse gas emissions reduction target in light of the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant crisis, a senior official of the Environment ...
March 30, 2011
The catastrophic events that crippled the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant were mainly due to a tsunami that was off the charts.
March 29, 2011
Water puddles with high levels of radioactivity detected in the basements of the turbine buildings at three reactors of the crippled Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant raise...
March 28, 2011
Tokyo Electric Power Co. acknowledged for the first time possible damage to core pressure containers at the crippled Fukushima nuclear plant--the last line of defense in...
March 27, 2011
As a hibakusha survivor of the 1945 atomic bombing of Hiroshima, Keijiro Matsushima, 82, has been speaking publicly about his personal experience in English for foreign...
March 25, 2011
Amid all the finger-pointing over the crisis that engulfed the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant, one poor example of decision-making stands out.
March 25, 2011
Having heralded Japan's entry into the atomic age, a leading nuclear scientist has been left reeling by the crisis at the Fukushima No. 1 power plant.
March 25, 2011
With nearly 30,000 people dead or missing, the giant tsunami triggered by the Great East Japan Earthquake is the worst in the nation's history.
March 24, 2011
After coming under fire, the Nuclear Safety Commission of Japan for the first time on Wednesday released predicted ranges of radiation exposure and radioactive materials from...
March 23, 2011
The Tokyo metropolitan government on Wednesday warned residents against using tap water to feed infants after high levels of radioactive iodine were confirmed at a water...
March 23, 2011
The government has advised people not to eat spinach, broccoli and some other vegetables grown in Fukushima Prefecture after radioactive substances at higher than acceptable...
March 22, 2011
The Great East Japan Earthquake may serve as a catalyst for a drastic change in Japan's political and administrative systems.