The operator of the Japan's crippled Fukushima nuclear power plant has started to discharge contaminated water into the Pacific Ocean to speed up efforts to tackle the crisis caused by last month's ea

Japan started dumping 11,500 tons of low-level radioactive water at sea on Monday to free up storage space at its crippled Fukushima nuclear plant for more highly contaminated water.

Engineers pinned their hopes on chemicals, sawdust and shredded newspaper to stop highly radioactive water pouring into the ocean from Japan's tsunami-ravaged nuclear plant Sunday as officials said i

Japan plans to dump 11,500 tons of radioactive water at sea to free up storage space at its crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant for more highly contaminated water, the plant's operator said on Mo

When a boiling summer hits power-starved Tokyo, even Japan's culture of self-restraint will hit its limit.

The March 11 tsunami that smashed into Japan's northeast coast, killing as many as 25,000 pe

Japan's prime minister made his first visit to the country's tsunami-devastated region on Saturday as the operator of the stricken Fukushima nuclear complex said it had found radioactive water leaking

A Japan Coast Guard elite rescue unit has picked up a dog that was adrift at sea on a house roof off the nation's tsunami-battered northeast coast, an official said on Saturday.

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Radiation exceeding government safety limits has seeped into groundwater under a tsunami-crippled Japanese nuclear plant, according to the operator, but experts said on Friday that it was unlikely to

Thousands of visitors flocked to Tokyo's Ueno Zoo on Friday to catch a first glimpse of a pair of pandas on loan from China, in a welcome respite from the gloom over last month's earthquake and tsunam

Japanese Prime Minister Naoto Kan said that the stricken nuclear plant at the centre of the world's worst atomic accident since Chernobyl in 1986 must be scrapped, Kyodo news reported on Thursday.

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