Fukushima nuclear crisis
March 16, 2013
Anti-nuclear demonstrations that have been a fixture in front of the prime minister's office in Tokyo on Friday nights for nearly a year are still drawing sizable crowds, but...
March 16, 2013
The government began work March 15 to overhaul Japan's energy policy. A panel discussed the value of alternative power sources but pointedly ignored a pledge by the previous...
March 16, 2013
A new all-time high radiation level has been detected in a fish near the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear plant.
March 15, 2013
Editor's note: This is the sixth part of a new series that has run in the past under the title of The Prometheus Trap. This series deals with the secret missions assigned to...
March 15, 2013
SHIRAKAWA, Fukushima Prefecture--A nonprofit organization is building a museum about Japan’s worst nuclear accident at a site located around 80 kilometers from the crippled...
March 15, 2013
A handful of evacuees from the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant crisis gathered on March 14 in Tokyo and called on the central government to do more to help children and...
March 14, 2013
As it is poised to impose strict regulatory measures on the operation of nuclear power plants, the Nuclear Regulation Authority is increasingly met by opposition that it is...
March 14, 2013
An inquiry by Tokyo Electric Power Co. into allegations the utility misled Diet investigators and thereby thwarted an inspection of a particular building at the Fukushima No. 1 ...
March 13, 2013
FUTABA, Fukushima Prefecture--Hiroyuki Endo walks down a street lined with shuttered shops and withered weeds and solemnly gazes at a sign overhead.
March 13, 2013
An independent panel says the operator of Japan's tsunami-crippled nuclear plant misinformed investigators and blocked inspection of key equipment last year, but that there was ...
March 13, 2013
Editor's note: This is the fifth part of a new series that has run in the past under the title of The Prometheus Trap. This series deals with the secret missions assigned to...
March 13, 2013
TAIPEI--Taiwanese President Ma Ying-jeou is taking heat from opposition parties and environmentalists by repeatedly justifying his administration's commitment to nuclear energy ...
March 12, 2013
Japan's government has begun reviewing staffing policies at the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear plant after a survey found that nearly half of the laborers employed there may be...
March 12, 2013
On the symbolic second anniversary of the Great East Japan Earthquake, 1,650 residents and evacuees filed lawsuits on March 11 against the central government and Tokyo Electric ...
March 12, 2013
The annual dose of radioactive cesium in meals in Fukushima Prefecture decreased by at least two-thirds last year and was well within the government’s safety standard, the...
March 12, 2013
Nearly 30 percent of Japanese consumers check production locations to avoid food possibly contaminated by radioactive substances, while 19 percent are reluctant to buy food...
March 12, 2013
OSLO--Atomic bomb survivors and their supporters welcomed the first international conference on the humanitarian consequences of nuclear weapons, even though the two-day...
March 11, 2013
In a monumental undertaking the likes of which has never been attempted, it could take up to four decades to complete the decommissioning and dismantling of the four damaged...
March 11, 2013
OKUMA, Fukushima Prefecture--Withered weeds cover the yard of Kumamachi Elementary School, while satchels, dictionaries, calligraphy tools, keyboard harmonicas and handmade...
March 11, 2013
Editor's note: This is the fourth part of a new series that has run in the past under the title of The Prometheus Trap. This series deals with the secret missions assigned to...