Fukushima robot begins second attempt to retrieve melted nuclear fuel - Engineers hope closer access to core will provide ...

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 ...

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

Tourists – mainly from China – are flocking to Futaba, the town which is home to the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, undeterred by lingering radiation threats from the 2011 ...

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 ...