evacuation
June 11, 2013
Noriko Abe is demanding answers over the death of her 98-year-old father-in-law who was forced to take a 230-kilometer bus trip lasting more than eight hours in the confusion...
June 06, 2013
Time is running out for the more than 10,000 evacuees from the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant disaster to seek damage compensation from plant operator Tokyo Electric Power ...
June 06, 2013
Radiation levels have dropped by 40 percent on average in each of the four types of evacuation zones around the crippled Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant, the government's...
May 10, 2013
Chaos reigned during the early phase of the Fukushima nuclear disaster, and people who fled the area have no idea how much radiation they were exposed to before the evacuation. ...
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.
March 15, 2013
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...
March 13, 2013
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 the secret missions assigned to...
March 07, 2013
The consensus that was developing in the teleconference that began at 1:30 a.m. on March 16, 2011, U.S. Eastern Standard Time, demonstrated the extent to which the U.S....
March 07, 2013
At 9 a.m. on March 16, 2011, Kurt Campbell, assistant secretary of state for East Asian and Pacific affairs, invited Japanese Ambassador Ichiro Fujisaki into his office in...
February 22, 2013
Relatives of seven patients who died in the course of evacuating a hospital near the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear disaster site are planning to sue the plant operator for...
February 18, 2013
PATTAYA, Thailand—An exercise here that tested the ability of Self-Defense Forces troops to evacuate civilians overseas has highlighted problems ranging from mandate...
February 04, 2013
Editor's note: This is the fourth part of a series that has run in the past under the overall title of The Prometheus Trap. This series deals with the differences between Japan ...
February 01, 2013
Editor's note: This is the third part of a series that has run in the past under the overall title of The Prometheus Trap. This series deals with the differences between Japan...
January 24, 2013
MIYAKEJIMA, Tokyo--Cafe 691 Okikurashoten sits atop a hill, with the wide expanse of the brilliant blue-green sea below, and the leaves of sago palm trees swaying gently in the ...
January 22, 2013
Japan's nuclear industry watchdog plans to apply stricter evacuation standards than the international norm for cases in which residents at risk from a nuclear accident need to...
January 13, 2013
NEWPORT, Oregon--A small port city along the Oregon coast in the Pacific Northwest, Newport is a quiet friendly town.
January 04, 2013
Authorities are working to ease bans on animals in evacuee housing, after some families uprooted by the 2011 tsunami and nuclear disaster suffered further distress when...
December 31, 2012
Seventy-six percent of residents from candidate areas to store soil contaminated by radioactive fallout from the Fukushima disaster would reluctantly accept interim storage...
December 08, 2012
The magnitude-7.3 earthquake and tsunami warning on Dec. 7 were a chilling echo of the events of March 2011, but lessons learned back then resulted in a more efficient...