Tag: earthquake

The plan to filter and dilute millions of tons of water from the plant crippled by the 2011 quake and tsunami and pipe it out to sea has drawn both foreign and domestic opposition. ( read original story ...)

Japan's Sakurajima volcano erupted Sunday, prompting officials to raise alert levels from Level 3 to Level 5, the highest possible. ( read original story ...)

Japan's nuclear regulators have greenlit a plan to release contaminated water from the wrecked Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant into the ocean. The post Japan approves plans to release Fukushima ... ( read original story ...)

Japan's nuclear regulator on Friday authorized a controversial plan to discharge radioactive wastewater from a crippled nuclear plant in northeast Japan into the Pacific Ocean, prompting protests from ... ( read original story ...)

Japanese nuclear plant's operator Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO) will be subjected to further inspections and then the diluted water will be released. ( read original story ...)

Japan’s nuclear regulator on July 22 approved details of a planned release of treated radioactive wastewater from the wrecked Fukushima nuclear power plant into the sea next year. The approval by the ... ( read original story ...)

Residents in western Japan were cleaning up debris Monday evening after a powerful earthquake hit the area around Osaka, the country's second-largest city, killing three people and injuring ... ( read original story ...)

The plan has encountered stiff resistance from fishing unions in the region which fear its impact on their livelihoods, Thomas Kingsley reports ... ( read original story ...)

The Japanese government announced on Friday that the country's nuclear regulators approved the release of the water from the disabled Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant into the sea. According ... ( read original story ...)

A 16-foot giant fish was recently caught by a crew of fisherman in Chile, and a footage of the fish being lifted by a crane has appeared online. The video clip shows the workers hooking the head of ... ( read original story ...)

A Japanese law to facilitate access to and use of various information by people with disabilities has entered force. The legislation is expected to be ... ( read original story ...)

Imaginative director Masaaki Yuasa's Japan Sinks: 2020 falls short as an anime adaptation, leaving viewers disappointed and dissatisfied. ( read original story ...)

We are aiming to put as many nuclear reactors as possible online,” said Kishida. “We will have up to nine reactors operating this winter to secure enough sources of energy to cover about 10% of ... ( read original story ...)

We will take all possible measures to guarantee the maximum capacity of power supply this winter, including the safe resumption of operations of the atomic plants,” the minis ... ( read original story ...)

There were 54 reactors across Japan before the March 2011 disaster at the Fukushima power plant, when a gigantic wave after an earthquake flooded reactors, leading to nuclear fuel in three of them ... ( read original story ...)

A Tokyo court on Wednesday ordered four former executives of the utility operating the tsunami-wrecked Fukushima nuclear power plant to pay 13 trillion yen ($94 billion) to the company, holding them ... ( read original story ...)