If ever there was one, this was a victory to be savoured.

After a year that will go down in history as one of Japan's hardest, a period scarred by the horrors of a deadly earthquake and tsunami and t

A nuclear reactor of a power company in Japan was shut down on Saturday after problems started in its cooling system, Xinhua reported.

The No.1 reactor of the Ohi nuclear power plant in western Fukui

A tsunami advisory was issued for the Pacific coasts of northern Japan after a strong quake hit the region heavily damaged by the March earthquake and tsunami, the Japan Meteorological Agency said Sun

More than six times the legal limit of radioactive caesium has been found in beef from Fukushima prefecture, home to Japan's crippled nuclear plant, an official statement said on Saturday.

The meat

Japan’s embattled Premier Naoto Kan took another blow on Tuesday as his disaster reconstruction minister quit, having caused a furor with scathing remarks to leaders of tsunami-hit regions.

A magnitude 5.4 earthquake hit central Japan and injured seven people on Thursday, but there were no immediate reports of major damage.

The epicentre of the earthquake, which struck around 8:16 a.m.

Radiation meters will be distributed to about 34,000 children living in the largest city near the tsunami-damaged Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear plant to monitor their exposure levels, a city official sai

Women around the world feel stressed and pressed for time, but women in emerging markets are more stressed than their sisters in developed nations - and Indian women say they are the most stressed of

A small aerial drone measuring radiation over Japan's stricken Fukushima nuclear plant went out of control on Friday and made an emergency landing on a reactor building roof, the operator said.

Tokyo

Japan issued a tsunami warning Thursday after a magnitude-6.7 earthquake struck in the northeast of the country, rattling the areas hardest hit by the March 11 quake and tsunami disasters.

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