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Hosono visits Fukushima village declared safe for residents to return
FUKUSHIMA — Environment Minister Goshi Hosono, who is also the minister in charge of the nuclear crisis, on Saturday visited the Fukushima village of Kawauchi which straddles the exclusion zone more »
NHK to broadcast documentary series for 9 days to mark 1st anniversary of March 11 disaster
TOKYO — What really happened on March 11? How have the lives of the victims changed since the tragedy? What are their futures? NHK is to broadcast a “NHK Special” more »
Water temperature rising in No. 2 reactor at Fukushima nuclear plant
TOKYO — Tokyo Electric Power Co (TEPCO) said Monday that the water temperature in the No. 2 reactor at the stricken Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant has risen from 45 more »
Radiation fears slow clean-up in Tohoku
TOKYO —Giant piles of debris from Japan’s earthquake and tsunami scar the country’s once picturesque northeast coast—and the clean-up is hamstrung by fears the rubbish may be contaminated by radiation. more »
Radiation, rusty metal in reactor
This photo taken by a remote-controlled endoscope and released by Tokyo Electric Power Co shows a scaffolding, bottom, and the wall inside the beaker-shaped containment vessel of No. 2 reactor more »
Ken Watanabe to appear in documentary on Tohoku recovery
TOKYO — Discovery Networks Asia-Pacific, a division of leading global real-world media and entertainment company, Discovery Communications, Inc; Singapore production company Bang Singapore, and Japanese public broadcaster NHK, have announced more »
March 11 disaster builds international friendships
ISHINOMAKI — Out of the tragedy of ruin wreaked by the tsunami that laid waste to large stretches of Japan’s northeast coast, a beacon of international friendship has risen. In more »
Fourth worker at Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant dies
TOKYO — A man in his 60s has become the fourth worker to die at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, which was crippled by the March 11 disaster. Tokyo more »
Japan plans to scrap nuclear plants after 40 years
AP – FILE – This Jan. 10, 2007 file photo shows three reactors’ buildings at Mihama Nuclear Power Plant in Mihama, central Japan. Two reactors, background and center, are at more »
Strong quake rocks Japan; no damage reported
By Chico Harlan, Sunday, January 1, 1:30 AM BEIJING — A forceful 6.8-magnitude earthquake hit off the coast of southeastern Japan on Sunday, rattling buildings in Tokyo and jolting a more »
