FUTABA, Fukushima Prefecture--The town where Yuji Onuma in his youth dreamed up a slogan promoting the "bright future" that nuclear power promised remains deserted and a shell of its former self.

FUTABA, Fukushima Prefecture—Two-and-a-half years after evacuation orders were lifted in parts of Futaba, the municipal government is focused on attracting new residents to revitalize the community.

The Mainichi Shimbun answers some common questions readers may have about what Japan will do with soil removed around the ...

Japanese engineers yesterday began a difficult operation to remove a second sample of radioactive debris from inside the stricken Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant. About 880 tonnes of hazardous ...

Cherry blossom trees in the Fukushima Prefecture towns of Futaba and Okuma, where the crippled Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Powe･･･ ...

Futaba once had a population of 7,000. It and the neighboring town of Okuma co-host Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings Inc.'s Fukushima Daiichi plant. Futaba's entire populace had to evacuate ...

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 ...

ON March 11, 2011, a massive earthquake and tsunami hit Tepco's Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station (NPS), releasing ...

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 ...

A town that hosts the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant is being swept up in Japan's tourism boom, with visitors fro ...