Japan’s environment minister revealed on Tuesday that Tokyo Electric Power (Tepco) might have to dump radioactive water into the Pacific Ocean from its destroyed Fukushima nuclear power station.
“The…

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Tokyo (CNN) Eight years after Japan's worst nuclear disaster, the government is not sure what to do with the contaminated water that remains -- but its environment minister says dumping it into the o…

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(CNN) A store cashier in Tokyo been arrested on allegations of stealing the credit card information of 1,300 customers using just one tool -- his memory.
The part-time worker was arrested Thursday fo…

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More than a million tonnes of contaminated water lies in storage but power company says it will run out of space by 2022Fukushima: Japan will have to dump radioactive water into Pacific, minister say…

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Image: APA remark by Japanese environment minister Yoshiaki Harada about dumping wastewater from the damaged Fukushima nuclear power plant directly into the Pacific Ocean has sparked outrage among Ja…

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Image copyright Reuters Image caption The storage tanks for contaminated water are filling up and space will run out in 2022Japan's environment minister says contaminated water from the Fukushima nuc…

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KYODO NEWS - 32 minutes ago - 06:28 | Japan, AllA fire broke out near a rocket launch pad on Tanegashima Island in southwestern Japan early Wednesday, prompting the cancelation of an unmanned rocket …

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Posts tagged #台風15号 (Typhoon No.15) looked like something out of a disaster movie.
Of course, the whole show was documented on Japan’s favorite social media platform, Twitter, where users shared thei…

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SNA (Kanazawa) — Japan’s Ishikawa Prefecture has been developing the high-quality Ruby Roman Grapes for fourteen years.
This year, a single bunch of grapes sold for 1.2 million yen, working out to al…

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the new Hotel Okura’s lobby is a replica of it’s former | all photos by Satoshi NagareWhen Tokyo’s Okura Hotel announced that their main wing would be demolished in 2015 and be rebuilt, there was pub…

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