Japanese restaurants in India scrambled Wednesday to find replacement ingredients after the government imposed a blanket ban on food imports from Japan over radiation fears.

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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

The level of radioactive iodine in the sea off Japan’s disaster-hit Fukushima nuclear plant has soared to its highest reading yet at 4,385 times the legal limit, the plant operator said on Thursday.

Radioactive dust believed to be from a crippled nuclear power plant in Japan has been detected nearly 3,000 kilometres away in Hong Kong, officials said on Wednesday.

Radiation levels in the sea off Japan's stricken nuclear plant hit their highest reading yet, officials said on Wednesday, amid a struggle to deal with large amounts of radioactive water at the site.

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

Japan's health ministry has asked water purification plants nationwide to stop taking in rainwater and cover pools with tarpaulins to shield them from radiation from a crippled nuclear plant.

India's seafood exports to calamity-hit Japan will be affected for next six months due to the prevailing situation there, according to industry bodies.

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