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 ...

NIIGATA--The Japanese region of Niigata is expected to endorse a decision to restart the world's largest nuclear power plant on Monday, ⁠a watershed moment in the country's pivot back to nuclear since ...

Don't miss the big stories. Like us on Facebook. Four nuclear reactors in Fukushima, Japan, exploded 15 years ago on March 11, 2011, touching off a nuclear catastrophe Japan is still struggling to ...

IWAKI, Japan >> Takuma Hashimoto was three years old when a massive earthquake and tsunami struck on March 11, 2011, triggering nuclear meltdowns at the Fukushima Daiichi plant just an hour’s drive ...

The disaster at Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings Inc. (TEPCO)'s Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station exposed the immense risks of relying on nuclear energy. It should have served as the ...

TOKYO, Japan — The operator of the tsunami-wrecked Fukushima nuclear plant has begun removing fuel from a cooling pool at one of three reactors that melted down in the 2011 disaster, a milestone in ...

The country is rapidly moving to restart reactors as artificial intelligence increases electricity demand and foreign wars choke gas supplies. FUKUSHIMA PREFECTURE, Japan — Fifteen years ago, this ...

Visitors flock to barely inhabited towns, attracted for the most part by the very catastrophe that drove their residents away ...

TOKYO — Japan marked the 15th anniversary of the earthquake, tsunami and nuclear disaster on its northeastern coast Wednesday as the government pushes for more use of atomic energy. The magnitude 9.0 ...