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Strong earthquake hits off coast of Japan’s Fukushima
TOKYO, Feb 13 (Reuters) - A strong earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 7.1 hit off the coast of eastern Japan on…
Reports Japan preparing to release Fukushima’s contaminated water into sea
Nearly a decade after the Fukushima nuclear disaster, Japan’s government has decided to release contaminated water from the destroyed plant into the…
Japan fishermen oppose ‘catastrophic’ release of Fukushima water to ocean
Japanese fish industry representatives have urged the government not to allow the release at sea of tonnes of contaminated water from the…
Japan marks ninth anniversary of earthquake and tsunami without ceremony
People release balloons to comfort souls of victims at Arahama district in Sendai, Miyagi Prefecture, norther Japan, 11 March 2020. The Japanese…
Japan’s new environment minister says country should stop using nuclear power
Japan’s newly installed environment minister, Shinjiro Koizumi, wants the country to close nuclear reactors to avoid a repeat of the Fukushima catastrophe…
Nuclear fuel removal from Fukushima power plant begins
The operator of Japan's crippled Fukushima power plant on Monday began the delicate operation of removing atomic fuel from inside a building…