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May 14, 2013
Tokyo Electric Power Co. officials underestimated Fukushima fishermen’s anger and distrust toward the company whose failures continue to threaten their livelihoods.
April 10, 2013
Japan made concessions to reach a basic agreement with Taiwan over fishing rights around the disputed Senkaku Islands, a deal that will likely rile China.
April 06, 2013
YOKOHAMA--To thwart invasive species, Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Ltd. unveiled a new device that removes living organisms from ships' ballast water at Yokohama Port's Honmoku...
March 22, 2013
Scientists said March 21 that they have identified rich seabed deposits of rare earth elements in a Japanese exclusive economic zone near Minami-Torishima, a coral reef 2,000...
March 21, 2013
Desolate, remote and almost entirely under water, the Okinotorishima atoll 1,700 kilometers south of Tokyo is now the site of a port construction project worth 75 billion yen...
March 16, 2013
A new all-time high radiation level has been detected in a fish near the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear plant.
March 16, 2013
Some 2,000 tons of drifting debris from the earthquake and tsunami disaster in Japan two years ago have washed up on the shores of North America so far, and estimates are that...
March 01, 2013
A record concentration of radioactive cesium--5,100 times the government's food safety standard--was detected in a fish caught near the crippled Fukushima No. 1 nuclear plant,...
February 06, 2013
The seabed has tectonic plates that can cause devastating earthquakes, but it is also a treasure trove of natural resources. New discoveries concerning the seabed were made...
January 22, 2013
Japanese scientists have filmed Adelie penguins in Antarctica snatching up prey at rates of up to two fish per second, far faster than what their behavior on land would suggest.
January 19, 2013
A rockfish caught in the port of the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant was found to have radioactive cesium 2,540 times the government's safety standard for foodstuffs, Tokyo ...
January 13, 2013
TOKYO--The Great East Japan Earthquake and ensuing tsunami reminded us of the terrible damage the sea is capable of inflicting. But what about the damage caused to the sea by...
January 10, 2013
TSUKUBA, Ibaraki Prefecture—Corals could become extinct in the waters around Japan within 60 years if carbon dioxide emissions continue to rise at their current rates, the...
September 11, 2012
A significant quantity of radioactive cesium, likely from the crippled Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant, has turned up in subsea mud about 200 kilometers away, near the...
August 29, 2012
With its rich fishing grounds, the far northern and mostly rural prefecture of Aomori is reeling from a ban on shipments of Pacific cod after two instances of fish were found...
June 28, 2012
ISHINOMAKI, Miyagi Prefecture--After catching a decent number of sea bass in Sendai Bay, Hisayoshi Otomo went through the normal routine of weighing the fish at a pier--and...
June 16, 2012
BEIJING—A Chinese deep-sea submersible dived to 6,671 meters in the Mariana Trench, beating the 6,527 meters achieved by Japan’s manned research submersible Shinkai 6500 in ...
June 15, 2012
SOMA, Fukushima Prefecture--Fishermen in this northeastern city set out on a trial fishing operation on June 14 in hopes of resuming their work after voluntarily refraining...
May 23, 2012
The concentration of waterborne radioactive cesium in central Tokyo Bay was six times the level prior to last year's nuclear disaster, but far below the legal standard for safe ...