In Futaba, the hardest-hit town and a co-host of the Fukushima No. 1 plant, a small area was opened in 2022. About 100 people, or 1.5% percent of the pre-disaster population, have returned to live.

A Japanese town whose population fled the 2011 Fukushima nuclear plant disaster has partially reopened eight years later. Radiation levels in parts of Okuma, west of the Daiichi plant, have been ...

Thirty-two deaths in Fukushima Prefecture were newly recognized this fiscal year as related to the earthquake and tsunami disaster that hit Japan nine years ago, highlighting the stressful ...

More than eight years after the Fukushima nuclear disaster, a Japanese court has cleared three former executives of the firm operating the plant of professional negligence. It was the only ...

The Fukushima disaster was one of the world's most devastating nuclear mishaps. It followed a 9.0 magnitude earthquake off ...

JAPAN issued a tsunami advisory after a magnitude 6.9 earthquake struck the country on Monday. The quake was at a depth of 23 ...

It's been eight years since the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster. Operations to remove radioactive material were mostly completed back in 2018. But a new problem has emerged: how to dispose of ...

BANDAI, Japan – Tourist Benjamin Tuffy’s family spent their winter holidays in Japan’s picture-perfect snow. But they were not at the country’s famed ski resorts in Hokkaido or Nagano ...

At an elementary school in Futaba Town, Fukushima Prefecture, children’s bags and notebooks still lie scattered where they were left after the meltdown at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power ...

will reduce its dependence on nuclear power as much as possible," which the government has heretofore upheld based on regrets over the Fukushima nuclear disaster. The draft plan labels nuclear ...