The disasters at Chernobyl and Fukushima are commonly touted as mere cultural exceptions, either due to Soviet communism or to Japanese “groupism.” Doing so is not only inaccurate or borderline racist ...

March 11 marks the 15th anniversary of the Fukushima nuclear disaster. It also marks the new growth of plant life and, as Muneo Kanno, a rice farmer of Fukushima, told me, “fushicho no gotoku” or ...

The Fukushima Institute for Research, Education and Innovation (F-REI) is being built in Namie, a small town that was ...

NAMIE, Fukushima Prefecture–A significant shift in Japan's energy policy has sparked outrage among evacuees such as Ichiro ...

Fifteen years ago, Fukushima, Japan, was home to one of the worst nuclear disasters in history. Today, some places in the region look just as they did in the immediate aftermath of that fateful Friday ...

FUKUSHIMA, Japan — Nature is reclaiming abandoned buildings in the exclusion zone surrounding Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant, an area that appears frozen in time 15 years after disaster struck.

NIIGATA, Japan, Dec 22 (Reuters) - Japan took the final step to allow the world's ‌largest nuclear power plant to resume operations with a regional vote on Monday, ‌a watershed moment in the country's ...

Chernobyl and Fukushima have left a tainted legacy in a no-man’s land between radioactive dirt and an immaculate landscape of state denial, where ‘acceptable risk’ is nothing more than a euphemism for ...

March 11, 2026, marks 15 years since the disaster at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant. Cleanup and recovery efforts have been ongoing since the incident. While some surrounding areas in the ...