Fukushima produces first thesis on effects of internal radiati...

TOKYO Hundreds of people living just outside Fukushima Prefecture say they have been denied adequate compensation after the country's 2011 nuclear disaster despite suffering elevated radiation levels. Nearly 700 residents from Hippo district in ...

VIENNA Experts from the International Atomic Energy Agency will visit Fukushima Prefecture for five days starting July 22 to support decontamination efforts. The experts will be provided with local radiation data, tour disaster-hit areas and ...

Children from the town of Namie, Fukushima Prefecture, where all residents were evacuated following the Fukushima No. 1 Nuclear Power Plant disaster, visited Tokyo Skytree ahead of its first anniversary on May 22. Seventeen students from Namie ...

FUKUSHIMA Tokyo Electric Power Co. met Monday with fishermen in Fukushima Prefecture to seek approval for its plan to dump some of the groundwater accumulating at the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear plant into the sea. Afterward, Tetsu Nozaki, head of the ...

Tokyo Electric Power Co.'s (Tepco) tsunami-crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant in Fukushima Prefecture is seen in this March 11, 2013, photo. Japan is embarking on its most ambitious attempt at electricity industry reform since 1951, with ...

The Environment Ministry said Tuesday that the disposal of tsunami debris from Miyagi and Iwate prefectures is on schedule to be completed by the end of March 2014, but is not proceeding on schedule in Fukushima Prefecture. Of the estimated total ...

Sunday evening, a 5.3 magnitude earthquake hit the Pacific coast of Japan's Fukushima Prefecture. According to the country's Meteorological Agency, the epicenter was at a depth of 60 kilometers. 0Earthquake tremors were recorded in 18 prefectures, ...

It surfaced on April 17 that a woman in her 60s who served as a lay judge in a burglary and murder case in Fukushima Prefecture suffered a stress disorder after being exposed to evidence that showed a cruel crime scene. Her sufferings bring home the ...

Staff at a nonprofit organization carry out a thyroid ultrasound on a child in Iwaki, Fukushima Prefecture. (Mainichi) FUKUSHIMA -- The prefectural government's lack of transparency concerning its thyroid cancer screening process has left residents ...