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Japan's trade ministry has almost doubled the estimated cost of compensation for the 2011 Fukushima nuclear disaster and decommissioning of the damaged Fukushima-Daiichi nuclear plant to more than 20 trillion yen (US$178 billion), the Nikkei business daily reported on Sunday (Nov 26).
An earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 6.1 jolted northeastern and eastern Japan on Thursday morning, the Japan Meteorological Agency said. No tsunami warning was issued.
An earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 6.1 struck off Japan's Fukushima prefecture at 6:23 a.m. Thursday local time, Japan Meteorological Agency said.
Tsunami alert downgraded, but Tepco says biggest risk now is contaminated water being carried away with the waves, which pollutes the environment
An earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 7.4 struck northeastern Japan's Fukushima on Tuesday, the weather agency said, while tsunami waves were observed in the area and two persons were injured slightly.
Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's promise that the crippled Fukushima nuclear plant was "under control" in his successful pitch three years ago for Tokyo to host the 2020 Olympic Games "was a lie", former premier Junichiro Koizumi said on Wednesday.
Company’s contraband shipments allegedly came from scene of 2011 nuclear disaster
Japan should modernize its energy system rather than restart obsolete nuclear reactors that were shut down on safety concerns following the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster.
She’s 21, has thyroid cancer, and wants people in her prefecture in northeastern Japan to get screened for it. That statement might not seem provocative, but her prefecture is Fukushima, and of the 173 young people with confirmed or suspected cases since the 2011 nuclear meltdowns there, she is the first to speak out.
The improper handling of the Fukushima aftermath by the Japanese government has had grave consequences and that's partly attributed to the fact that Japan didn't learn lessons from the Chernobyl tragedy, a Russian radiation expert has said.
In the story of one famous Chinese idiom, a man plugs his ears while trying to steal a bell, foolishly believing that by doing so others won't hear the sound of the bell when it is moved away.
In front of the local government of Iidate Village in Japan's Fukushima Prefecture stands a big radiation measuring device. On its spotless dashboard flashes a red number: 0.38 microsieverts/hour.
In the town of Naraha, most of which lies within a 20-kilometer radius of Tokyo Electric Power Co.'s radiation-leaking nuclear power plant, only six percent of the residents have returned home.
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