Fukushima, Japan News

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Tea enthusiasts gathered in Japan to talk about one of the world's favorite drinks, as green tea growers in Shizuoka aim to boost tourism and the reputation of their crops following the Fukushima nuclear disaster.

A federal appeals court ruled Tuesday that construction of two additional nuclear reactors at Plant Vogtle can proceed and that the Nuclear Regulatory Commission considered the risks that created a nuclear accident in Japan.

Kumamon, the mascot of Kumamoto prefecture, rose from humble beginnings promoting a new bullet train station to become the country's pre-eminent mascot.

Before Fukushima, Children's day is was a happy day for most of the children of Japan but after the nuclear meltdown of three nuclear reactors at Fukushima there is a great fear in Fukushima.

Early education: Students at Akagi Elementary School in Koriyama, Fukushima Prefecture, learn about radiation in 2012.

Japan's aggressive monetary policy and its sliding currency may have an unintended side-effect: pushing the country back into the embrace of nuclear technology, a power source the country has avoided since a nuclear disaster two years ago.

New Delhi, May 5: The world's nuclear power plants have, through avoided air pollution, saved more lives than they have ever claimed, a study that estimated the number of prevented human deaths has suggested.

Alex Collier, a self-proclaimed Ethical Extraterrestrial contactee, had predicted the nuclear disaster in Fukushima, Japan, in an interview given in 1995.

In this April 16, 2011 file photo, Wakana Nemoto, 3, standing next to her mother Naoko, receives a radiation exposure screening outside an evacuation center in Fukushima, northeastern Japan.

Kansai Electric Power Co. and seven other regional power utilities reported that combined losses widened to 909.6 billion yen last fiscal year as their reactors sat idle, heightening speculation energy prices will rise as they pass on higher costs to customers.

It surfaced on April 17 that a woman in her 60s who served as a lay judge in a burglary and murder case in Fukushima Prefecture suffered a stress disorder after being exposed to evidence that showed a cruel crime scene.

Concerned by a report from the General Accountability Office, U.S. Sen. Bob Casey is asking the Nuclear Regulatory Commission to study how Pennsylvanians who live between 10 and 50 miles of a nuclear plant would react if there were a radiation release.

The unusual lawsuit was filed on behalf of the children by their parents and anti-nuclear activists in June 2011.

Hokkaido Electric Power Co. asked the government Wednesday to approve rate hikes for households as fuel costs for thermal power generation surge to offset the suspension of its Tomari nuclear plant.

This is a music video of Japanese Fukushima punk rock band Scrap , consisting of people who lost everything because of the nuclear disaster, performing their song Fuck TEPCO, in Koriyama , 10/2/2011. A UN nuclear expert warned today that Japan may need more than 40 years to decommission its tsunami-crippled nuclear plant.