Setbacks mounted on Wednesday in the crisis over Japan's tsunami-damaged nuclear facility, with nearby seawater testing at its highest radiation levels yet and the president of the plant operator chec

An acute shortage of toilet paper has hit Tokyo, as Japan's people react to the earthquake and tsunami by stocking up on essentials.

In a posh supermarket in the centre of the capital, a lone sign st

Shares in Tokyo Electric Power Co. Plunged 17.73 per cent on Monday amid criticism over its handling of a deepening crisis at its stricken Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant.

Highly radioactive water has leaked from a reactor at Japan's crippled nuclear complex, the plant's operator said on Monday, while environmental group Greenpeace said it had detected high levels of ra

Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant may have breached, raising the possibility of more severe contamination to the environment.

The toll in the catastrophic earthquake and tsunami that hit Japan has gone up to 7,320 people, a police report here said on Saturday.

Japan's earthquake-battered economy faces a new and unpredictable threat from a deepening nuclear crisis and power blackouts that analysts say could hinder a recovery from the disaster.

The catastrophic quake and ensuing tsunami that hit the country on March 11 have left 5,178 people dead till on Thursday morning, Japan's National Police Agency said.

Japanese military helicopters dumped water on Thursday onto the stricken Fukushima nuclear power plant Northeast of Tokyo in a bid to douse fuel rods and prevent a disastrous radiation release.

Operators of a quake-crippled nuclear plant in Japan said they would try again on Thursday to use military helicopters to douse overheating reactors, as U.S. officials warned of a rising risk of a catastrophic radiation leak from spent fuel rods.