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The Fukushima towns frozen in time: nature has thrived since the nuclear disaster but what happens if humans return?
Fifteen years after a tsunami caused the Fukushima nuclear accident, only bears, raccoons and boar are seen on…
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Japan pauses restart of world’s largest nuclear power plant one day after it went online
Operator says it does now know when the problem at the Kashiwazaki-Kariwa plant in Niigata province will be so…
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‘People are wrestling with the burden’: Japan pivots to focus on nuclear power ‘maximisation’ alongside renewables
Post-Fukushima nuclear closures of dozens of reactors forced the country to rely heavily on imported fossil fu…
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Yoshitomo Nara review: cutesy terrors swear, smoke, play guitar and burn down houses
Hayward Gallery, LondonThe Japanese artist’s instantly recognisable delinquent infants fill a huge show that a…
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Fukushima soil headed to Japan PM’s flower beds to allay nuclear safety fears
The government has suggested the material, which it describes as low risk, could also be used in roads and inf…
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Robot retrieves radioactive fuel sample from Fukushima nuclear reactor site
Plant’s owners hope analysis of tiny sample will help to establish how to safely decommission facilityA piece …
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The Last of the Sea Women review – female Korean divers as picturesque eco-feminist tradition
Sue Kim’s film about South Korea’s underwater fishers has everything from nuclear pollution to sexism to cover…
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Fukushima nuclear plant: operation begins to remove radioactive debris
Robots being used to gather sample that will give clues about conditions inside the reactors, a step towards d…
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Fukushima nuclear plant workers sent to hospital after being splashed with tainted water
The operator Tepco says the workers came in contact with the wastewater when a hose came off accidentally and …
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Japan to release second batch of wastewater from Fukushima nuclear plant next week
UN-approved release to go ahead despite China’s ban on all Japanese sea imports following first batchJapan wil…
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China drastically cuts seafood imports from Japan in wake of Fukushima water release
Imports fell by 67% in August from the same month a year earlier, to about ¥3bn ($20.2m)Chinese seafood import…
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State-backed disinformation fuelling anger in China over Fukushima water
Reports of abusive behaviour towards Japanese citizens in China in response to wastewater release at nuclear s…
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Fukushima: China accused of hypocrisy over its own release of wastewater from nuclear plants
Plant in China releases water with higher amounts of tritium, scientist says, calling into question seafood ba…
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‘They won’t buy it’: fish traders anxious after Fukushima wastewater release
The release of water from the Japanese nuclear plant has already caused the price of produce from surrounding …
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China bans Japanese seafood after Fukushima wastewater release
Water containing radioactive tritium being pumped into Pacific via tunnel from Tepco plant, amid protests from…
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Wednesday briefing: Fukushima nuclear plant is set to flush tonnes of water into the sea – but is it safe?
In today’s newsletter: Japan’s decision to release radioactive water from the tsunami-hit power plant has divi…
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Fukushima: wastewater from ruined nuclear plant to be released from Thursday, Japan says
Release plans approved by UN nuclear authority have caused outcry in China and concern for the reputation of J…
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Japan to start Fukushima water release within weeks – report
Release of contaminated water from the damaged nuclear plant has been criticised by fishers and countries in t…
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Fukushima fish with 180 times legal limit of radioactive cesium fuels water release fears
Black rockfish caught in May close to disaster-hit nuclear power station is one of dozens caught in the past y…
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EU lifts Japan food import rules, weeks before nuclear wastewater to be pumped into ocean
Other countries, including China, have threatened to further restrict Japanese imports if the Fukushima wastew…