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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How to see sumo training in TokyoWatching sumo training for freeFor the true cheapos out there (who don’t mind potentially being left out in the rain, literally), there’s a free option: the Arashio s…

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Nissan chief executive officer Hiroto Saikawa, shown here during a news conference in Japan in March, announced Monday that he is resigning, effective Sept. 16.
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As lasting as the resulting blindness in that eye was Hearn’s terrible self-consciousness about his disfigured appearance.
Somehow, Hearn reached this stranger’s door, where he was handed a few dolla…

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