ODAKA, Japan >> Every year when winter finally loosens its grip on northern Japan, Tomoko Kobayashi begins what has become an annual rite for her and a small band of collaborators. They head out with ...

where the Tokyo Electric Power Co.’s Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant is located, had to evacuate about 7,000 residents due to the accident. Since the evacuation order was lifted in 2020 ...

A medical clinic in Futaba Town, Fukushima Prefecture While progress has been made in the difficult-to-return zone, more than 90% of the locations within it have evacuation orders still in place.

FUKUSHIMA--Iitate village near the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant plans to lift an evacuation order next spring for a small portion of the “difficult-to-return zone” so it can reclaim ...

Armed with measuring devices, groups of citizens are embracing science to monitor radioactive fallout — and regain control of lives upended by the 2011 meltdowns in Fukushima. Armed with ...

The Fukushima disaster was ... The government has lifted evacuation orders for much of the region affected by the meltdown, ...

Fumie Endo, a Fukushima native and one of the guides ... located just seven kilometers from the plant, well within the evacuation zone. Suzuki continues to brew sake outside of the prefecture.

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 ...

After the destruction triggered a radioactive leak at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, Prime Minister Naoto Kan immediately declared a voluntary evacuation zone 20 kilometers in radius ...