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Crime
Chinese man claims he defaced Tokyo shrine over Fukushima discharge
Jiang Zhuojun, a 29-year-old Chinese national living in Japan, pleaded guilty to charges of property damage and disrespecting a place of wor...
Ryan General
Environmental
New video, images give closest look yet inside Fukushima reactor’s damaged interior
New drone footage deep inside Fukushima’s damaged reactor shows misshapen objects and displaced equipment, offering the closest look y...
Japan
Japan commemorates 13th anniversary of Fukushima nuclear disaster
Japan commemorated the 13th anniversary of the Fukushima nuclear disaster on Monday, with memorial services held across affected prefectures...
IAEA begins first safety review of Japan’s release of Fukushima water
The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) is now conducting a safety review of Japan’s release of treated radioactive water, the first s...
Carl Samson
China
Disinformation fueling China’s outrage over Japan’s release of Fukushima water: reports
A government-backed disinformation campaign targeting Japan’s release of treated radioactive water may be responsible for stoking anger in C...
Asia
Japan to start releasing Fukushima’s treated radioactive water
Japan will begin releasing 1.34 million tons of treated radioactive water from the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant on Thursday. What c...
Fukushima explained: Why Japan is releasing over a million tons of treated radioactive water into the sea
On an ordinary spring day in Japan in 2011, one of the most devastating natural disasters in modern history occurred. An undersea megathrust...
10 years ago, Lionel Messi auctioned off his ‘Golden Foot’ for $5 million
It has been a decade since Lionel Messi auctioned a gold cast of his left foot to help victims of the deadly 2011 Tohoku earthquake and tsun...
Bryan Ke
News
Japan May Have to Dump Radioactive Fukushima Water Into the Pacific Ocean
A Japanese official has just publicly announced that they might end up dumping radioactive water from the destroyed Fukushima nuclear power ...
Japanese Company Plans to Dump Fukushima Toxic Waste into the Pacific Ocean
To the disgust of local residents, the firm assigned to clean up the waste from the 2011 Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster has decided that...
Fukushima’s Radiation is So Deadly Even Robots Can’t Survive After Exposure
Cleaning up the mess at Fukushima has proven to be a tough task even for Japan’s robots as high radiation levels in the site repeatedly caus...
Why Fukushima’s High Radiation Levels are Actually a Good Thing
Fukushima was just another Japanese prefecture until a tsunami-triggered nuclear disaster struck in 2011. While the incident happened years ...
Japanese Surfers Risk Their Lives to Surf Near the Fukushima Nuclear Zone
Japanese surfers are fearlessly catching waves at the radioactive beach near the site of the Fukushima nuclear disaster. Despite warnings of...
Editorial Staff
Eerie Photos Reveal What Fukushima Looks Like 4 Years After the Nuclear Disaster
One photographer had the opportunity to get a rare look inside the abandoned radioactive towns of Fukushima, Japan four years after two natu...
Laura Dang
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