Fukushima Prefecture

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 how pets and livestock fared in...

Solidarity clearly has no place in Japan's nuclear power industry.

TOMIOKA, Fukushima Prefecture--Evacuees are trickling back to see the famed “cherry blossoms of Yonomori” that had attracted more than 100,000 annual sightseers before the...

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...

Even six years after the 2011 nuclear accident, about 54,000 people, or about 60 percent of Fukushima residents forced to evacuate during the unfolding crisis, will still be...

During my visit to Fukushima last month, the city, on the surface, seems to have picked itself up and dusted itself off. The strength and stoic nature of the Japanese seemed...

Although studies have shown that most local residents were likely not exposed to cancer-causing doses of radiation from the crippled Fukushima nuclear plant, the great fear...

Sixty percent of Fukushima Prefecture residents said it will take more than 20 years to recoup the lifestyles they lost when the prefecture was hit by the triple disaster of...

FUKUSHIMA--Thyroid gland doses of internal radiation in year-old infants living within 30 kilometers of the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant are well within safety limits,...

Researchers have announced safe radiation doses in thyroid glands for the vast majority of residents living around the stricken Fukushima nuclear plant. But their studies are...

Heavier seasonal snowfall than usual is disrupting cleanup and decontamination efforts around the crippled Fukushima No. 1 nuclear plant, forcing some subcontractors to...

The slipshod organization of the mammoth decontamination program around the stricken Fukushima nuclear plant created an environment where cutting corners came naturally and...

Cleanup crews in Fukushima Prefecture have dumped soil and leaves contaminated with radioactive fallout into rivers. Water sprayed on contaminated buildings has been allowed to ...

A man in his 20s questioned the shady practices involved in decontaminating areas in Fukushima Prefecture, only to be assured that everything was OK.

To discover the extent of shoddy decontamination practices, Asahi Shimbun reporters spent 130 hours observing, photographing and interviewing workers at various locations in...