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Residents just outside Fukushima seek damages in...
An aerial view of the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant (Asahi Shimbun file photo)
Hundreds of residents and evacuees from just outside Fukushima Prefecture say they have been unfairly denied full compensation despite high radiation levels in their area...
TEPCO: Less water than initially thought leaked...
Underground storage tanks at the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant are seen at the top of the photo. (Asahi Shimbun file photo)
A significantly smaller amount of radioactive water than originally believed leaked from underground storage tanks on the grounds of the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant,...
Fukushima fishermen’s distrust leads to rejection ...
Fisheries officials in Fukushima Prefecture look at Tokyo Electric Power Co.'s plan to release groundwater from the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant into the sea. (Shiro Nishihata)
Tokyo Electric Power Co. officials underestimated Fukushima fishermen’s anger and distrust toward the company whose failures continue to threaten their livelihoods.
Fisheries officials uneasy at TEPCO plan to release ...
The Asahi Shimbun
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...
Labor ministry disciplines 3 worker dispatch...
An aerial view of the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant (Hiroki Endo)
The labor ministry warned three companies to get their act together after it emerged the firms illegally sent workers to the stricken Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant.
Cover on Fukushima reactor building to be demolished
TEPCO plans to replace the makeshift protective canopy built over the damaged No. 1 reactor building at its Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant. (Asahi Shimbun file photo)
Tokyo Electric Power Co. will demolish and replace the makeshift canopy covering a badly damaged reactor building at its Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant in order to remove...
TEPCO to dump groundwater to ease crisis at...
The Asahi Shimbun
After a series of blunders, miscalculations and unresolved problems, Tokyo Electric Power Co. adopted a new strategy to avoid a total collapse of its system for handling...
Solar power taking off in a big way across Japan
A computer image of what the mega-solar power plant at the top of the Gongen dam in Hyogo Prefecture will look like. (Provided by Hyogo prefectural government)
One-third of all prefectural governments in Japan are either planning or building mega-solar power plants, each capable of generating more than 1,000 kilowatts (equal to 1...
EDITORIAL: More international cooperation is needed ...
TEPCO has swapped 434 kilograms of its plutonium kept in France for the same amount of plutonium in Britain owned by a German utility. (Pool)
Tokyo Electric Power Co. has traded 434 kilograms of its plutonium kept in France for the same amount of plutonium in Britain owned by a German utility.
Nuclear watchdog to answer unresolved questions...
The International Atomic Energy Agency's investigators tour the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant on April 17. (Provided by the IAEA)
Japan's nuclear watchdog said it will seek to address unanswered questions about the Fukushima nuclear disaster in a report to be submitted to the Vienna-based International...
TEPCO, 7 other utilities post combined loss of 1.6...
Tokyo Electric Power Co. President Naomi Hirose (Asahi Shimbun file photo)
Eight electric power companies reported a combined loss of 1.59 trillion yen ($16 billion) for fiscal 2012 as the aftereffects of the Fukushima nuclear disaster continued to...
BIZ BRIEF: Toshiba to supply smart meter...
Toshiba Corp. announced on May 1 that its proposal of a communication system for smart meters has been selected by Tokyo Electric Power Co. in a public tender.
Utility could seek 20 billion yen from TEPCO over...
Tohoku Electric Power Co. President Makoto Kaiwa explains the decision to abandon the planned Namie-Odaka nuclear power plant in March. (Asahi Shimbun file photo)
Solidarity clearly has no place in Japan's nuclear power industry.
Fuel-rod cooling halted by rats at crippled Japan...
This rat, found dead March 20 beneath a charred terminal of a temporary switchboard at the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant, has been fingered as the cause of the recent blackout there. (Provided by Tokyo Electric Power Co.)
Japan's crippled Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant halted cooling of a spent fuel pool at the site on April 22 to remove two dead rats, the third time cooling equipment has...
TEPCO rejects ministry's demand to pay 10.5 billion ...
Tokyo Electric Power Co. head office in Tokyo's Chiyoda Ward (Asahi Shimbun file photo)
Tokyo Electric Power Co. refuses to pay 10.55 billion yen ($106 million) for decontamination work around its crippled Fukushima No. 1 nuclear plant, saying it is under no legal ...
Fukushima workers treated water leaks without...
Radioactive water leaked from the No. 2 and No. 3 underground tanks, shown with dotted lines, at the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant. The photo was taken on April 7. (Yosuke Fukudome)
Fourteen workers treated radioactive water leaking at the crippled Fukushima No. 1 nuclear plant without wearing personal dosimeters as required, Tokyo Electric Power Co. said...
PROMETHEUS TRAP/ ‘Shadow units’ (21): Fukushima ...
Internal Ground Self-Defense Force material related to a secret rescue mission (Hiroyoshi Itabashi)
Editor's note: This is the final 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...
PROMETHEUS TRAP/ ‘Shadow units’ (20): TEPCO...
GSDF Maj. Gen. Masato Taura, left, meets with Masao Yoshida, then chief of the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant, in April 2011. (Provided by the Ground Self-Defense Force)
Editor's note: This is the 20th 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 the ...
Another leak found at Fukushima plant during water...
The Asahi Shimbun
Tokyo Electric Power Co. on April 11 confirmed another leak at its crippled Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant, this time from a pipe being used to transfer contaminated water ...
TEPCO to stop using underground tanks at Fukushima...
The Asahi Shimbun
Tokyo Electric Power Co. has decided to stop using all the underground tanks to store radioactive water at its crippled Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant.