Koriyama

Japan court rejects demand to evacuate Fukushima...
Children are captivated as they listen to a female college student reading to them at an evacuation center in Koriyama, Fukushima Prefecture, in May 2011. (Asahi Shimbun file photo)
A Japanese court has rejected a demand that a city affected by the fallout of the country's 2011 nuclear disaster evacuate its children.
Lawsuit seeks evacuation of Fukushima children
Toshio Yanagihara, one of the lawyers representing 14 children from Fukushima who started a legal battle for the right to live free of radiation, holds a leaflet urging quick action be taken to protect children from radiation during a press conference in Tokyo on April 2. (AP Photo)
Their demand: The right to live free of radiation. The plaintiffs who started the legal battle: 14 children.
Fukushima teens find parallels in Hiroshima’s...
Junior high school students from Koriyama, Fukushima Prefecture, dedicate a thousand paper cranes to the Children's Peace Monument in Hiroshima on Aug. 6 (Ryo Ikeda)
HIROSHIMA--It took a visit to this historic city by a group of students to realize the atomic bombing 67 years ago was more than something from the distant past learned only in ...
Fukushima students use teacher's picture book to...
Tomoyuki Bannai talks with children using his picture book in Koriyama, Fukushima Prefecture. (The Asahi Shimbun)
New Texas Rangers pitcher Yu Darvish has been compared to baseball legends and rock stars. But now he is being compared to cesium.
Response overwhelming for Fukushima decontamination ...
Participants take notes at the first workshop on decontamination for business operators held in Koriyama, Fukushima Prefecture, on Oct. 4. (Shunsuke Kimura)
KORIYAMA, Fukushima Prefecture--Some were looking for work. Others just wanted to help out. And still others were simply eager to finally return to their hometowns.
Scientist on mission to prove grass can be greener
An experiment on cutting grass deeply as opposed to removing from the roots is conducted in Koriyama, Fukushima Prefecture. (Kengo Hiyoshi)
KORIYAMA, Fukushima Prefecture--Mention grass to scientist Mitsuo Kondo and he gets excited.
Fukushima residents avoid pools due to radiation...
Only a few people dare to take a dip in a swimming pool on a hot, sunny day at the Koriyama Culture Park in Koriyama, Fukushima Prefecture on July 17. (Hiroshi Kawai)
With temperatures rising above 35 degrees nationwide, thousands of people trying to get a respite from the brutal heat descended on swimming pools in many areas of Japan on...
High levels of radioactive cesium found in Koriyama ...
A notice at an Aeon Co. outlet in Tokyo's Adachi Ward says beef from cattle that were fed radioactive-contaminated straw was sold. (Mari Endo)
Radioactive cesium nearly five times the government safety standard of 500 becquerels per kilogram was detected in beef from one of 15 cattle shipped by a farmer in Koriyama,...
Radiation fears keep students away from pools
Elementary school students attend a class in an indoor pool of a swimming club on June 7 in Koriyama, Fukushima Prefecture. (Photo by Hiroyuki Yamamoto)
KORIYAMA, Fukushima Prefecture--Amid confusion and anger over government radiation standards, most school children in Fukushima Prefecture will not be able to swim outdoors...
Unwanted radioactive sewage sludge piling up
Bags of incineration ash are piled up on the passageway of a sewage treatment facility in Kawasaki. (Mikio Kano)
Radioactive sewage sludge is quickly filling up treatment facilities in eastern Japan as recycling companies have refused to accept it for safety reasons.
Lucky evacuees in Fukushima feast on gourmet meals
Cooks offer French cuisine at an evacuation center in Koriyama, Fukushima Prefecture, on Friday. The center is housed at the Koriyama Special Support School run by the Fukushima prefectural government. (Photo by Toru Nakata)
KORIYAMA, Fukushima Prefecture--Bourgogne-style stew and pudding were on the menu for some lucky evacuees at makeshift shelters in this city these past few days, as a team of...
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