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April 28, 2023
Visitors take photos of cherry blossoms in Tomioka town, Fukushima prefecture, Japan Saturday, April 1, 2023.
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Small Areas Reopen Near Fukushima Nuclear Plant
But few have returned.
April 3, 2023
Noboru Ishizawa, a Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings (TEPCO) official, speaks during an interview with The Associated Press at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant in Okuma town, northeastern Japan, on Feb. 22, 2023.
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What's Happening at Fukushima Plant 12 Years After Meltdown?
Is the 2051 completion target realistic?
March 10, 2023
An H3 rocket lifts off from Tanegashima Space Center in Kagoshima, southern Japan Tuesday, March 7, 2023.
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Japan Intentionally Destroys New Rocket Minutes After Launch
It's the country's first new rocket series in more than two decades.
March 7, 2023
A worker helps direct a truck driver as he stands near tanks used to store treated radioactive water after it was used to cool down melted fuel at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, run by Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings (TEPCO), in Okuma town, northeastern Japan, on March 3, 2022.
Safety
Fukushima Plant Head: Too Early to Predict Decommissioning
Details of the damage inside its reactors are only beginning to be known 12 years later.
March 2, 2023
Toyota Motor Corp. Chief Executive Akio Toyoda delivers a speech on the stage at the Tokyo Auto Salon, an industry event similar to the world's auto shows on Jan. 13, 2023, in Chiba near Tokyo.
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Toyota CEO to Step Aside
The move it to help the company stay abreast of social changes, like electrification.
January 26, 2023
Men in hazmat suits work inside a facility with equipment to remove radioactive materials from contaminated water at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, run by Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings (TEPCO), in Okuma town, northeastern Japan, Thursday, March 3, 2022.
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Japan Says Repayment of TEPCO Fukushima Cleanup Delayed
The delay stems from technical difficulties and TEPCO's worsening financial state.
November 8, 2022
This aerial photo shows Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant in Okuma town, Fukushima prefecture, north of Tokyo, on Feb. 13, 2021. The construction of facilities needed for a planned release of treated radioactive wastewater into the sea next year from the damaged Fukushima nuclear power plant began Thursday, Aug. 4 ,2022, despite opposition from the local fishing community.
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Robot Problem Delays Fuel Removal from Fukushima Nuclear Plant
The giant robotic arm needs some more work.
August 25, 2022
U.S. Ambassador to Japan Rahm Emanuel speaks during an interview with The Associated Press Tuesday, Aug. 2, 2022, at the ambassador's residence in Tokyo. Emanuel says his government is working with Japan and other likeminded countries to counter Chinese attempts to use its economic might to force political change around the world.
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U.S. Ambassador to Japan Warns of Chinese Economic Coercion
He wants the U.S. and Japan to do business with each other and similar secure and stable countries amid worries caused by the COVID pandemic, the war in Ukraine and Chinese economic coercion.
August 2, 2022
Images from a remote-controlled submersible robot show damaged areas inside the Fukushima nuclear power plant damaged in the 2011 earthquake and tsunami, Wednesday, Feb. 9, 2022, in Fukushima, Japan. The robot captured images of what appears be mounds of damaged fuel that had melted and fell to the bottom of the hardest-hit reactor at the nuclear plant for the first time since the 2011 disaster.
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Robot Photos Show Melted Fuel at Fukushima Reactor
Mounds of nuclear fuel melted and fell to the bottom of the most damaged reactor.
February 10, 2022
In this Feb. 27, 2021, file photo, tanks (in gray, beige and blue) store water that was treated but is still radioactive after it was used to cool down spent fuel at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant in Okuma town, Fukushima prefecture, northeastern Japan.
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Fukushima Plant Failed to Probe Cause of Faulty Filters
24 out of 25 filters attached to the water treatment equipment had been found damaged.
September 15, 2021
In this April 13, 2021, file photo, environmental activists wearing a mask of Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga and protective suits perform to denounce the Japanese government's decision to release treated radioactive Fukushima water, near the Japanese Embassy in Seoul, South Korea. Japan’s government adopted an interim plan Tuesday, Aug. 24, 2021 that it hopes will win support from fishermen and other concerned groups for a planned release into the sea of treated but still radioactive water from the wrecked Fukushima nuclear plant.
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Japan Seeks Support for Fukushima Nuclear Water Release
The government decided in April to start discharging the water into the Pacific Ocean in the spring of 2023.
August 24, 2021
In this May 9, 2021, file photo, a security guard wearing a protective mask to help curb the spread of the coronavirus walks in front of the Olympic Rings, in Tokyo. Japan, seriously behind in coronavirus vaccination efforts, is scrambling to boost daily shots as the start of the Olympics in July closes in.
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Japan's Vaccine Push Ahead of Olympics is Too Late
The head of the Japan Doctors Union says hosting could spread a Tokyo variant.
June 3, 2021
This computer graphics image released by the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) shows the Hayabusa2 spacecraft above the asteroid Ryugu. The Japanese spacecraft is nearing Earth after a yearlong journey home from a distant asteroid carrying soil samples and data that could provide clues to the origins of the solar system, a space agency official said Friday, Nov. 27, 2020.
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Spacecraft Carrying Asteroid Soil Samples Nears Home
The samples could provide clues to the origins of the solar system.
November 27, 2020
The Japanese carrier ship MV Wakashio seen from the coast of Mauritius, Aug. 16, 2020.
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Ship Operator to Pay $9M Over Oil Spill
The MV Wakashio struck a coral reef and caused a widespread oil spill off the coast of Mauritius earlier this summer.
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