More than a decade after Japan’s worst nuclear disaster, the town that hosts the disabled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant finally lifted its evacuation order on Tuesday, allowing former ...

A year before the 2011 disaster, government data shows Fukushima’s coastal fishing industry landed catches worth around $69 million. By 2018, that figure had dwindled to little more than $17 ...

Japan starts releasing treated radioactive water from Fukushima nuclear disaster into Pacific 01:48. Tokyo - An extendable robot began a two-week mission Tuesday to retrieve the first sample of ...

at a rally against the Japanese government's plan to release treated wastewater from the Fukushima Daiichi power plant into the ocean on Aug. 22, 2023. (Kazuhiro Nogi/AFP via Getty Images) CLICK ...

The Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant is in the town of Okuma, in Fukushima Prefecture. It sits on the country's east coast, about 220km (137 miles) north-east of the capital Tokyo.

Japan’s Prime Minister has eaten fish from the ocean off the Fukushima coast to dispel safety concerns amid an escalating row over the release of radioactive water — sparking comparisons with ...

Japan will begin releasing wastewater from the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant into the Pacific Ocean on Thursday. "I have asked Tepco [the power plant's operator, Tokyo Electric Power] to ...

A robot tasked with navigating the wreckage inside Fukushima Daiichi's Unit 2 reactor has successfully retrieved a small sample of melted nuclear fuel, marking a crucial step in Japan's journey ...

TOKYO -- Japan's northeastern prefecture of Fukushima, devastated during the 2011 earthquake and nuclear disaster, is looking to transform itself into a renewable energy hub, Nikkei has learned.

TOKYO (AP) — Japan said Tuesday it plans to use some slightly radioactive soil stored near the tsunami-wrecked Fukushima nuclear plant on flower beds at Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba’s office ...

Melted fuel debris retrieved from the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear plant differed in several ways from an earlier sample and could reveal further details on how the 2011 disaster unfolded there ...