Analysis
March 22, 2011
High levels of radioactive materials were detected Monday more than 100 kilometers from the embattled Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant, but officials said there were no...
March 21, 2011
Shunichi Yamashita, a professor of radiation medicine at Nagasaki University who became adviser to Fukushima Prefecture on radiation health risk control, says people should be...
March 21, 2011
MIYAKO, Iwate Prefecture--For decades, it was the pride of the Taro district of Miyako, Iwate Prefecture--a giant double-wall levee that had long protected the townsfolk from...
March 19, 2011
For days now, television viewers around the world have been inundated with aerial images of quake- and tsunami-devastated towns in northeastern Japan, where survivors marked...
March 18, 2011
Satellite images showed that coastal areas of Fukushima Prefecture were drastically transformed as a result of the Great East Japan Earthquake.
March 18, 2011
Since the focus of the Great East Japan Earthquake was close to land, the ensuing tsunami caused great damage.
March 18, 2011
A mass mobilization structure was forming March 18 at the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant for what could prove the decisive battle in preventing a further deterioration of...
March 18, 2011
The wall of water that engulfed the coastline of Sendai in northeastern Japan a week ago was 10 meters high, three times what local officials had anticipated, according to a...
March 17, 2011
With the emergency surrounding the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant, Japan now faces a question that has been taboo since the Chernobyl nuclear accident in 1986, namely, who ...
March 17, 2011
The problems at the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant have raised comparisons to Chernobyl, where the worst nuclear accident ever occurred 25 years ago.
March 16, 2011
Public fears rose after high levels of radiation were detected near the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant and many residents were exposed to radioactive substances.
March 16, 2011
The quake-induced crisis at the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant is forcing other electric power companies to review their construction plans for nuclear power plants.
March 16, 2011
Japan's unfolding nuclear crisis will deal a blow not only to the government's energy strategy that stresses nuclear power but also its push for sales of power plant projects...
March 15, 2011
Extremely serious levels of radiation have escaped. Dangerously high doses of radiation have been detected in or near the compounds of the quake-hit Fukushima No. 1 nuclear...
March 15, 2011
Japan's crude steel production capacity could be cut by 20 percent because of damage to key steel mills in Friday's earthquake and tsunami.
March 15, 2011
An explosion and fire at the pool containing spent fuel rods at the No. 4 reactor of the quake-stricken Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant Tuesday could prove more serious...
March 14, 2011
A chain reaction that destroyed the Earth's crust in three different areas created the huge magnitude of 9.0 for the Great East Japan Earthquake, one of the biggest ever...
March 14, 2011
A belated decision to install vents in the core containment vessels in the reactors at No. 1 Fukushima nuclear power plant may have helped avert a major nuclear catastrophe.
March 13, 2011
The Japan Meteorological Agency on Sunday upgraded the magnitude of Friday's catastrophic earthquake to 9.0, making it the world's fourth-strongest in more than a century.
March 13, 2011
A magnitude-8.0 aftershock could strike the Tokyo metropolitan area or northern Japan within a year, a seismologist warns, underscoring the fresh need for the populace to...