evacuation
December 16, 2011
An expert panel of the Cabinet Office on Dec. 15 endorsed the "most stringent" safety standard for radiation levels in evacuation zones and called for placing priority on...
December 13, 2011
FUKUSHIMA--A member of the public living near the stricken Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant was exposed to more than 14 times the government’s safe annual limit of...
November 14, 2011
When the Great East Japan Earthquake and tsunami struck, many people wouldn't flee without their pets, which they consider part of their family.
November 02, 2011
A Nuclear Safety Commission of Japan task force decided on Nov. 1 to extend the area around nuclear power plants subject to emergency planning for nuclear accidents to a...
October 30, 2011
Any decision to lift or shrink the no-entry zone around the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant will probably require months of careful study, according to a Cabinet minister.
October 27, 2011
BANGKOK -- Residents were fleeing Bangkok in droves after heeding government warnings to evacuate ahead of a fresh deluge of flooding expected this weekend.
October 22, 2011
Areas around nuclear power plants covered by plans for emergency measures such as evacuations and orders to remain indoors should be expanded, according to the Nuclear Safety...
October 07, 2011
MINAMI-SOMA, Fukushima Prefecture -- Every day at 6 a.m., a man squats down and gives individual prayers in front of the 20 altars set up in an area devastated by the March 11...
October 01, 2011
In the first major downgrading of safety measures around the crippled Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant since the start of the crisis, the central government on Sept. 30...
September 30, 2011
Thousands of residents whose lives were shattered by the accident at the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant say their flight was made much easier thanks to the efficient work...
September 29, 2011
Wearing protective clothes, caps, masks and gloves, Toshiko Matsumoto looked from her home where cedar trees were swept away in the March 11 tsunami. With little left to block...
September 24, 2011
They are a bit like Weebles, the famous plastic toys that wobble but don’t fall down, but they have been enjoyed by Japanese children for about 400 years.
September 20, 2011
NAGOYA -- Some 1 million city residents here were advised to evacuate Sept. 20 as the powerful Typhoon No. 15 pounded the Tokai region with torrential downpours and strong...
September 13, 2011
An extensive area of more than 8,000 square kilometers has accumulated cesium 137 levels of 30,000 becquerels per square meter or more after the accident at the Fukushima No. 1 ...
September 10, 2011
Nearly 40 percent of the 56 elementary and junior high schools in Iwate, Miyagi and Fukushima prefectures, hardest hit by the March 11 disaster, did not specify evacuation...
September 10, 2011
More than a third of residents of Fukushima Prefecture would move to avoid radiation if they could, according to a survey by The Asahi Shimbun and TV Asahi Corp.-affiliated...
September 08, 2011
Residents from a 30-kilometer radius of the stricken Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant were exposed to up to 50 millisieverts of radiation for two months after the onset of...
August 31, 2011
A family of four forced to evacuate by the Fukushima nuclear disaster could receive compensation of about 4.5 million yen ($58,000) in the first round of compensation payments...
August 24, 2011
MOTOMIYA, Fukushima Prefecture--There were a few blunders, but the joy of being able to finally strut their stuff on stage seemed to override any sense of disappointment over...
August 24, 2011
A couple who has supervised various dorms in Fukushima Prefecture for Tokyo Electric Power Co. over about two decades considered their residents like their own children.