FUTABA, Fukushima Prefecture—The mayoral and municipal assembly elections began on Jan. 16 in this depleted town, a co-host of the crippled Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant. Although ...

FUTABA, Fukushima Prefecture--A new 5.3 billion yen ($50 million) museum here is entrusted with the mission of keeping lessons from one of the world’s worst nuclear disasters alive. The museum ...

Futaba County, home to the Fukushima No.1 nuclear plant, has seen a drastic reduction in the number of children in the area.

An interim disposal area for soil contaminated by the 2011 Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant (seen at rear) is seen in Futaba, Fukushima Prefecture, in this March 3, 2024, file photo. (Mainichi ...

Officials say the project to transfer contaminated soil to an interim storage site will be largely completed by the end of this month, but in parts of Fukushima—including the towns of Futaba and ...

This classroom at Futaba Minami Elementary School has been untouched since the accident at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant. Yoshino Takamitsu is on the town’s education board and is in ...

The recovery of Fukushima Prefecture cannot be considered ... transported to interim storage facilities built in the towns of Futaba and Okuma, where the power plant is located.