Soon after a tsunami damaged three reactors at the Fukushima ... the nuclear disaster, the government set up a 20-kilometer no-entry zone around the plant. It extended the evacuation zone as ...

It marked the first time an evacuation order has been lifted for a residential area in the government-designated “difficult-to-return” zone in Fukushima Prefecture since the 2011 disaster at ...

Armed with measuring devices, groups of citizens are embracing science to monitor radioactive fallout — and regain control of ...

FUKUSHIMA—Police are investigating a report of a foreign man walking around a school building no longer in use due to the 2011 nuclear disaster ... Since the evacuation order was lifted in ...

When an earthquake and tsunami hit Japan in 2011, the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant suffered what is considered the worst nuclear accident since the historic Chernobyl disaster.

Eerie new drone footage has for the first time revealed the extent of the damage to the Fukushima ... evacuation orders for ...

Minamisoma, a city located in Fukushima and one of the areas stricken by the nuclear accident at the Fukushima I Nuclear Power Plant, is now divided into “caution zone,” ”planned evacuation ...

An interim disposal area for soil contaminated by the 2011 Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant ... forward to address the aftermath of the nuclear disaster. 18-yr-old man arrested over killing ...

Much has certainly been said about the Fukushima nuclear meltdown that occurred nearly 12 years ago, triggered by the largest earthquake ever recorded in Japan. Today, the exclusion zone set up ...

The evacuation order was lifted for some parts of the town three years ago, but only 1,500 of almost 17,000 registered residents returned, most of them elderly.

Fukushima residents have reacted angrily to the statue of a boy in protective gear, saying it gives the impression of a city still contaminated after the 2011 nuclear disaster. Fukushima's nuclear ...

Japan is poised to amp up its use of nuclear power to meet national energy needs after a 13-year pause in the wake of the 2011 Fukushima ... zones were set up in the aftermath of the disaster ...