A short drive from the Fukushima nuclear disaster site, novice farmer Takuya Haraguchi tends to his kiwi saplings under the ...

A short drive from the Fukushima nuclear disaster site, novice farmer Takuya Haraguchi tends to his kiwi saplings under the spring sunshine, bringing life back to a former no-go zone.

To reduce radiation across Japan's northern Fukushima region after the 2011 nuclear disaster, authorities scraped a layer of ...

The IAEA has delivered its first set of university lectures on radiation safety to students in Fukushima Prefecture, to assist in revitalizing the area. The project was implemented in response to the ...

A short drive from the Fukushima nuclear disaster site, novice farmer Takuya ... who grew up far away in Osaka, feared that radiation would make the whole country uninhabitable.

Some of the soil removed during decontamination is now safe to reuse, but people have been uneasy about the plans to use it in public works projects around Japan.

April 12, 2011: Japan raises the accident to category 7, the highest level on the International Nuclear and Radiological Event Scale, from an earlier 5, based on radiation released into the ...