カテゴリー: Japan disaster
UN-approved release to go ahead despite China’s ban on all Japanese sea imports following first batchJapan will begin releasing a second batch of wastewater from the crippled Fukushima nuclear plant from next week, its operator has said, an exercise th…
In today’s newsletter: Japan’s decision to release radioactive water from the tsunami-hit power plant has divided groups – is it entirely safe or staggeringly stupid?• Sign up here for our daily newsletter, First EditionGood morning.Today’s newsletter …
IAEA report says discharge would have ‘negligible radiological impact on people and the environment’The UN’s nuclear watchdog has approved plans by Japan to release more than 1m tonnes of water from the wrecked Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant int…
Japan’s prime minister is pushing for as many as 17 nuclear reactors to be switched back on, more than a decade on from the meltdown at FukushimaLook carefully through the trees, and it is just possible to catch sight of Onagawa nuclear power plant fro…
Firm’s president at time of disaster among five defendants found liable for £80bn in damage by Tokyo courtA court in Japan has ordered former executives of Tokyo Electric Power (Tepco) to pay ¥13tn (£80bn) in damages for failing to prevent a triple mel…
Three people have moved back to Futaba, which aims to attract about 2,000 over the next five yearsLate last month, Yoichi Yatsuda slept in his own home for the first time in more than a decade.As a resident of Futaba, a town in the shadow of the wrecke…
Fumio Kishida said every effort would be made to reassure local people that disposing of the water in the Pacific was safeJapan’s new prime minister, Fumio Kishida, has said that there can be no delay to plans to release contaminated water from the wre…
Japanese government claims water from nuclear plant released through 1km tunnel will be safe as all radioactive elements will have been removed Operators of Japan’s stricken Fukushima nuclear plant have unveiled plans to construct an undersea tunnel t…
Japan’s plans to discharge radioactive wastewater into the Pacific Ocean is a callous act that would do catastrophic harmEarlier this month, the Japanese government announced plans to discharge 1m tonnes of radioactive wastewater accruing since the Fuk…
‘Little Mr Tritium’ was meant to help win support for release of contaminated water into seaThe Japanese government has been forced to quickly retire an animated character it had hoped would win support for its decision this week to release more than 1…
Fukushima plant operator Tepco suffers blow to plans to resume at its only operable atomic facility The operator of the wrecked Fukushima nuclear plant has been prevented from restarting its only operable atomic facility after a series of safety breach…
Much has changed along the hundreds of miles of devastated coastline and the recovery is gathering paceAfter the wave: a decade of grieving for a daughter lost to the tsunamiOn 11 March 2011 a magnitude 9.0 earthquake struck off Japan’s north-east coas…
Huge waves swept across swathes of the north-east coast after one of the strongest quakes ever recorded, triggering a nuclear meltdownJapan has observed a moment’s silence to mark the 10th anniversary of an earthquake and tsunami that killed more than …
Ten years ago one of the most powerful earthquakes on record triggered a devastating tsunami in Japan, killing more than 18,000 people and triggering catastrophic meltdowns at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant. Then and now photographs show the exten…
Mai was 12 when she died in one of the most harrowing stories to emerge from the March 2011 earthquake and tsunamiTen years after a tsunami killed more than 18,000 people on the north-east coast of Japan, Noriyuki Suzuki returned to the spot where his …