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The operator of Japan's Fukushima nuclear plant has begun removing nuclear fuel from a building housing one of the reactors that melted down after the 2011 earthquake and tsunami. Remotely controlled ... ( read original story ...)

The operator of Japan's Fukushima nuclear plant has begun removing nuclear fuel from one of the reactors that melted down after the devastating 2011 earthquake and tsunami. Remotely controlled ... ( read original story ...)

A powerful earthquake with a magnitude of 6.1 has struck Japan. The tremors hit the east coast of Honshu, the country's largest island, on Thursday, according to the United States Geological Service. ... ( read original story ...)

An insurance company in Japan has designed a mobile service letting people gift coverage to each other. Japanese earthquake insurance has become the latest type of digital gift people are giving ... ( read original story ...)

In relation to Japan's recovery from the 2011 earthquake, tsunami and Fukushima nuclear power plant meltdown which left thousands of people dead, injured and homeless, Sakurada suggested support for a ... ( read original story ...)

TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan's Olympic Minister, Yoshitaka Sakurada, resigned on Wednesday after he made remarks that offended people affected by the massive earthquake and tsunami that triggered nuclear ... ( read original story ...)

A light earthquake with magnitude 4.6 (ml/mb) was reported 42 kilometers (26 miles) from Shizunai in Japan on Monday. Exact location of event, depth 67.08 km, 142.3749° East, 41.9527° North. Global ... ( read original story ...)

The forearc in Northeast Japan subsided (3–4 mm/year) in the interseismic ~100 years before the 2011 Tohoku earthquake (M W 9.1) just like it did during this event. This study attempts to understand ... ( read original story ...)

A light earthquake magnitude 4.6 (ml/mb) strikes southeast of Shikoku, Japan kilometers (0 miles) from Shikoku in Japan on Wednesday. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a ... ( read original story ...)

She never saw her sister again. The teenager is now a woman and not surprisingly still traumatized by the events of that morning of January 1995 and the Kobe Earthquake in Japan. Her story is one of ... ( read original story ...)

Hauntings have been reported at homes and workplaces, in ruined towns and on beaches devastated by giant tsunami that crashed into hundreds of kilometers of Japan’s northeastern coast on March 11, ... ( read original story ...)

A light earthquake with magnitude 4 (ml/mb) was detected on Sunday, 69 kilometers (43 miles) from Mutsu in Japan. Id of earthquake: us2000k7u0. Event ids that are associated: us2000k7u0. Global date ... ( read original story ...)

A light earthquake magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) has struck on Friday, 247 km ESE of Namie, Japan (153 miles). All ids that are associated to the event: us2000k74t. Unique identifier: us2000k74t. The temblor ... ( read original story ...)

Japan has been hit with its second moderate earthquake in the last 24 hours. This most recent quake struck at 9:11 a.m. local time. The earthquake had a magnitude of 5.3 and hit just 30 miles from ... ( read original story ...)

It’s been eight years since the Great East Japan Earthquake and Fukushima nuclear disaster. Since then, the utilization of nuclear energy, which accounted for more than one-tenth of Japan’s ... ( read original story ...)

A light earthquake with magnitude 4.6 (ml/mb) was detected on Tuesday, 14 kilometers (9 miles) from Motomiya in Japan. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually ... ( read original story ...)