Seals vs. fishermen in Hokkaido
A battle for salmon pitches Japan’s fishermen against hungry seals. Japan’s Environment Ministry tries to solve the pro...
read moreSanta Clauses en route to world congress
18 Santa Clauses gather at Tokyo’s Haneda Airport on their way to the World Santa Claus Congress in southwestern Japan.
read moreJapan honors nearly 60,000 centenarians
Japan honors one of its nearly 60,000 centenarians ahead of Respect for the Aged Day.
read moreFukushima Update #50: Hope in bloom
We look at how one flower farmer and his son are commuting into the evacuation zone as they work to rebuild what was onc...
read moreHope in bloom
We look at how one flower farmer and his son are commuting into the evacuation zone as they work to rebuild what was onc...
read moreYoshida Testimony made public
The government has released the testimony of the former head of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant.The document sheds ...
read moreSendai clears safety inspection
Nuclear regulators have approved disaster-resistance measures at Sendai nuclear plant in southwestern Japan. The move pa...
read moreWhale shark returned to the wild
An aquarium releases its huge whale shark Otobe into the sea after the shark grows too big for its tank.
read moreAsahi pulls report on Fukushima abandonment
Japan’s Asahi newspaper retracts a report that workers at Fukushima Daiichi fled the plant at the height of the nuclear...
read moreHokkaido swamped by rain
Thousands are evacuated due to heavy rains in Japan’s northern isle Hokkaido.
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