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

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.

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

A robot has begun its second attempt to extract melted nuclear fuel from one of the reactors at the Fukushima Daiichi power plant in Japan, as part of a long and complex decommissioning effort ...

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 ...

Farmers in Fukushima were especially hard hit by the ... an interim storage facility in the towns of Futaba and Okuma had processed enough soil to fill 11 baseball stadiums. Even after the topsoil ...

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 ...

A stump of a cherry blossom tree is seen after it was cut down in Futaba, Fukushima Prefecture, March 16, 2025. (Mainichi/Shuji Ozaki) MINAMISOMA, Fukushima -- Cherry blossom trees in the ...

ON March 11, 2011, a massive earthquake and tsunami hit Tepco's Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station (NPS), releasing radioactive materials into the surrounding environment inside and outside of ...