Fukushima
May 21, 2013
A fishing vessel from Fukushima Prefecture caught fish in waters south of the crippled Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant on May 20 to test them for levels of radiation...
May 14, 2013
Tokyo Electric Power Co. officials underestimated Fukushima fishermen’s anger and distrust toward the company whose failures continue to threaten their livelihoods.
May 13, 2013
IWAKI, Fukushima Prefecture--Local fisheries officials on May 13 withheld their consent to Tokyo Electric Power Co.’s plan to release into the sea groundwater that is now...
May 07, 2013
FUKUSHIMA--Takashi Sato arrives at Onami Elementary School around 7:30 a.m., changes his navy uniform for a sky blue sweat suit, and starts his daily routine surrounded by...
May 06, 2013
Editor's note: This is the seventh part of a new series that has run in the past under the title of The Prometheus Trap. This series deals with how pets and livestock fared in...
May 05, 2013
As the nation celebrated the national Children's Day holiday on May 5, the latest statistics on children continue to reflect their ominous decline in numbers, with the only...
April 29, 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 how pets and livestock fared in...
April 25, 2013
FUKUSHIMA--Officials are still struggling to dispose of some 17,000 tons of contaminated rice produced in Fukushima Prefecture after the nuclear disaster there two years ago.
April 25, 2013
A Japanese court has rejected a demand that a city affected by the fallout of the country's 2011 nuclear disaster evacuate its children.
April 15, 2013
Their demand: The right to live free of radiation. The plaintiffs who started the legal battle: 14 children.
April 11, 2013
Radioactive cesium has not been detected in 99 percent of people in Fukushima Prefecture, host of the stricken Fukushima No. 1 nuclear plant, and neighboring Ibaraki Prefecture ...
April 02, 2013
NAMIE, Fukushima Prefecture--Kneeling among brown weeds and scattered debris, Miho Suzuki, 24, placed a bouquet of flowers on the remains of the home she shared with her...
April 01, 2013
Tokyo Electric Power Co. released its fiscal 2013 business operation policy on April 1, which begins by recognizing the utility's responsibility in dealing with the accident at ...
March 25, 2013
NAMIE, Fukushima Prefecture--Visiting the prefecture that hosts the crippled Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe on March 24 reiterated that...
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 14, 2013
Professional orchestras are recording the songs of schools slated for closure in Japan's most disaster-stricken prefectures in hopes of preserving a piece of history and...
March 11, 2013
Galvanized on the eve of the second anniversary of an earthquake and tsunami that triggered the world's worst nuclear disaster in 25 years, protesters turned out in full force...
March 10, 2013
An upcoming documentary explores Japan's nuclear crisis through the eyes of an artist who exposes photographic paper to polluted soil and finds it stained with radiation.
March 09, 2013
Hundreds of people rallied in a Tokyo park March 9, demanding an end to atomic power, and vowing never to give up the fight, despite two years of little change after the...
March 09, 2013
AIZU-WAKAMATSU, Fukushima Prefecture--Nestled in the picturesque western mountains of Fukushima Prefecture, Aizu-Wakamatsu is rich with the history of feudal and modern Japan.