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Fukushima Update #35 “TEPCO's Sisyphean Struggle Against Tainted Water”

Tokyo Electric Power Company is waging a constant battle to stop highly radioactive water from accumulating in the basem...

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TEPCO's Sisyphean Struggle Against Tainted Water

Tokyo Electric Power Company is waging a constant battle to stop highly radioactive water from accumulating in the basem...

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Decontamination suspended at Fukushima Daiichi

Tokyo Electric Power Company has been forced to shut down a system to purify contaminated water at the Fukushima Daiichi...

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Court freezes restart of 2 reactors

A district court in Fukui Prefecture has ordered Kansai Electric Power Company to freeze the restart of two reactors at ...

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Kansai Electric appeals nuclear restart ban

A power utility in Japan is appealing a court’s ban against it restarting a nuclear plant.A district judge yesterday blo...

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Imperial couple visits Ashio mine

Japan’s Imperial couple today visited a mine that was once one of Japan’s most toxic sites.The Ashio Copper Mine heavily...

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Abe sets ambitious childcare goals

Japan’s prime minister wants to boost the number of after-school childcare workers by 300,000 people in five years’ time...

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SDF drills to defend disputed islands

Japan’s Self-Defense Force held its first serious drill to defend the disputed Senkaku islands today.China also claims t...

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Riot police march in Tokyo

Nearly 2,000 Japanese riot police marched early this morning (Thursday) in central Tokyo.Special-purpose vehicles and po...

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