FUKUSHIMA -- Starting next March, the Fukushima Municipal Government will open bags of garbage that are not in compliance with separation rules to identify violators, and if they do not improve ...

Fukushima Prefectural Police on April 3 served a fresh arrest warrant to a 36-year-old man on suspicion of kidnapping a minor ...

Large amounts of waste proved a serious problem for both the city and the prefecture of Fukushima immediately after the 2011 earthquake and tsunami, which generated vast amounts of debris. The ...

When Ryuji Matsumoto moved from Tokyo to the town of Okuma in Fukushima Prefecture about six years ago, mutton was probably the last thing on his mind. His relocation had come about because the ...

A remote-controlled robot has embarked on its second mission to retrieve tiny bits of melted fuel debris from inside a damaged reactor at the Fukushima nuclear plant that was wrecked by a tsunami 14 ...

Teruki Hara, a 17-year-old fisherman, has set himself apart from his peers by relocating from Tokyo to Soma, a coastal city ...

One young man is bringing back color to Fukushima's Tomioka Town, which was famous for its spring flowers until the 2011 Fukushima Daichii nuclear accident changed the landscape.

"We hate looking at them and avoid going near them." This Fukushima resident says the green sheets scattered around the city remind her that reconstruction is still ongoing. The Ministry of the ...

The JR Joban Line’s northbound train rumbled along the coast of Fukushima Prefecture. I got off the train at Odaka Station in the city of Minami-Soma, walked across the deserted open space in ...

Japan's top court said Thursday it had finalized the acquittal of two former executives from the operator of the Fukushima nuclear plant charged with professional negligence over the 2011 meltdown.

About 16 kilometers south of the crippled Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant ... Tanji temporarily evacuated from the city of Iwaki to Gunma Prefecture. There, she served as the plaintiff ...

Today I reside in Fukushima City. I continue volunteering, something I have enjoyed since the Fukushima International Association was founded, and am thankful for the new volunteer opportunities ...