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March 11, 2026, marks 15 years since the Fukushima nuclear disaster happened in Japan. This major nuclear accident initially shook the international community of nuclear experts to its core. [1]

On a small coastal plot in the town of Futaba, located in northeastern Japan's Fukushima prefecture, an ultramodern textile factory opened just three years ago as the first industrial footprint planted at Ground Zero for the country's biggest natural... [2]

FUKUSHIMA, Japan -- Aged Japanese sake is a rare product, but one brewery in the city of Fukushima is aiming to change that. [3]

3D Visual Explainer How will Japan release its Fukushima wastewater? JULY 7, 2023 Updated on August 22, 2023 The Japanese government is set to let treated wastewater currently stored at the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant flow into the Pacif... (confirmed by 2 sources) [4]

KORIYAMA, Japan — Some of the smallest children in Koriyama, a short drive from the crippled Fukushima nuclear plant, barely know what it’s like to play outside—fear of radiation has kept them in doors for much of their short lives. [5]

IWAKI, Japan — A group of Fukushima workers on Wednesday sued Tokyo Electric for unpaid wages in a potentially precedent-setting legal challenge to the utility and its reliance on contractors to shut down a nuclear plant destroyed by the industry’s w... [6]

TOKYO — Just months after Quince was deployed to inspect Japan’s tsunami-devastated Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant, the $6 million robot got trapped in its dark and winding pathways. [7]

TOKYO -- Dozens of people were injured and nearly 900,000 homes were without power after a 7.3 magnitude earthquake struck Japan late Saturday with an epicenter off the coast of Fukushima Prefecture. [8]

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[1] TH thediplomat.com · 2026-03-11 · 75% match

Fukushima and the ‘Lessons Learned’ From Nuclear Disasters

March 11, 2026, marks 15 years since the Fukushima nuclear disaster happened in Japan. This major nuclear accident initially shook the international community of nuclear experts to its core.

[2] TH asia.nikkei.com · 2026-03-11 · 75% match

Fukushima's corporate comeback 15 years after Japan's worst disaster - Nikkei Asia

On a small coastal plot in the town of Futaba, located in northeastern Japan's Fukushima prefecture, an ultramodern textile factory opened just three years ago as the first industrial footprint planted at Ground Zero for the country's biggest natural

[3] TH asia.nikkei.com · 2025-06-01 · 75% match

Fukushima brewer thinks anew to specialize in aged sake

FUKUSHIMA, Japan -- Aged Japanese sake is a rare product, but one brewery in the city of Fukushima is aiming to change that.

[4] TH asia.nikkei.com · 2023-07-07 · 75% match

How will Japan release its Fukushima wastewater? - Nikkei Asia

3D Visual Explainer How will Japan release its Fukushima wastewater? JULY 7, 2023 Updated on August 22, 2023 The Japanese government is set to let treated wastewater currently stored at the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant flow into the Pacif

[5] MM www.irrawaddy.com · 2014-03-10 · 75% match

The Children of Fukushima Battle an Invisible Enemy

KORIYAMA, Japan — Some of the smallest children in Koriyama, a short drive from the crippled Fukushima nuclear plant, barely know what it’s like to play outside—fear of radiation has kept them in doors for much of their short lives.

[6] MM www.irrawaddy.com · 2014-09-04 · 75% match

Fukushima Workers Sue Tepco Over Unpaid Wages, Reliance on Contractors

IWAKI, Japan — A group of Fukushima workers on Wednesday sued Tokyo Electric for unpaid wages in a potentially precedent-setting legal challenge to the utility and its reliance on contractors to shut down a nuclear plant destroyed by the industry’s w

[7] MM www.irrawaddy.com · 2013-03-06 · 75% match

Japan’s ‘Long War’ to Shut Down Fukushima

TOKYO — Just months after Quince was deployed to inspect Japan’s tsunami-devastated Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant, the $6 million robot got trapped in its dark and winding pathways.

[8] TH asia.nikkei.com · 2021-02-14 · 75% match

Earthquake rocks Japan off coast of Fukushima Prefecture

TOKYO -- Dozens of people were injured and nearly 900,000 homes were without power after a 7.3 magnitude earthquake struck Japan late Saturday with an epicenter off the coast of Fukushima Prefecture.

[9] MM www.irrawaddy.com · 2016-11-22 · 75% match

Tsunami Hits Japan after Strong Quake near Fukushima Disaster Site

TOKYO, Japan — A powerful earthquake rocked northern Japan early on Tuesday, briefly disrupting cooling functions at a nuclear plant and generating a small tsunami that hit the same Fukushima region devastated by a 2011 quake, tsunami and nuclear dis

[10] TH asia.nikkei.com · 2023-07-08 · 75% match

On topic: Japan's Fukushima nuclear plant set to release treated water

With the International Atomic Energy Agency attesting to the safety of treated wastewater from the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant, the Japanese government is set to flush the water, now stored at the crippled nuclear plant, into the Pacific Ocean la

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