Opinion

COMMENTARY: Approaching final stages to avoid...
Photo by Keiji Takeuchi (The Asahi Shimbun)
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...
POINT OF VIEW/ Hirotada Hirose: We need imagination ...
Hirotada Hirose (The Asahi Shimbun)
Special to The Asahi Shimbun
POINT OF VIEW/ Kazuhisa Ogawa: Japan needs an...
Kazuhisa Ogawa (The Asahi Shimbun)
Special to The Asahi Shimbun
COMMENTARY/ Fukushima: Time for decisive action
Photo by Keiji Takeuchi (The Asahi Shimbun)
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 ...
POINT OF VIEW/ Tetsuo Takashima: Support...
Tetsuo Takashima (The Asahi Shimbun)
I was in Kobe when a powerful earthquake flattened the port city in Hyogo Prefecture in January 1995. My house in Kobe didn't collapse, but neighboring areas across a river...
POINT OF VIEW/ Kenji Sumita: Responses from TEPCO,...
Kenji Sumita (The Asahi Shimbun)
Special to The Asahi Shimbun
COMMENTARY: Unprecedented disaster tests resilience ...
Keiji Takeuchi (The Asahi Shimbun)
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...
Magnitude-8 aftershock could hit Kanto,...
Yoshiaki Kawata, Seiichi Sakurai and Yasuhiro Umeda (Asahi Shimbun photos)
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...