Mari Yamaguchi
World’s longest-serving death row inmate acquitted
A Japanese court has ruled an 88-year-old former boxer was not guilty in a retrial for a 1966 quadruple murder, reversing an...
International team inspects Fukushima treated water
A team of experts from the UN nuclear agency has inspected the tsunami-hit Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant for a review of...
Japan’s Moon lander still going after third lunar night
Japan’s first Moon lander has survived a third freezing lunar night, the nation’s space agency said, after receiving an image from the...
Fukushima nuclear plant leaks radioactive water
Highly radioactive water leaked from a treatment machine at the tsunami-hit Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, but no one was injured and...
Japan’s Fukushima nuclear plant completes third water release
The release of a third batch of treated radioactive wastewater from Japan’s damaged Fukushima nuclear plant into the Pacific Ocean ended safely...
Fears of Fukushima’s radioactive contamination hit Japan fish prices
Fish auction prices at a port south of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant have fallen amid uncertainty over how seafood consumers...
Fukushima’s release of nuclear water looms
Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida made a brief visit to the tsunami-wrecked Fukushima nuclear plant to highlight the safety of an impending...
Nagasaki marks 78th anniversary of atomic bombing with plea to abolish nuclear weapons
Nagasaki has marked the 78th anniversary of the United States’ atomic bombing of the city with the mayor urging world powers to...
Japanese startup unveils balloon flight space tours
A Japanese startup plans to launch commercial space viewing balloon flights that it hopes will bring an otherwise astronomically expensive experience down...
Japan suspends plan to pipe Fukushima’s radioactive water into the sea
Japan has put on hold the release to the sea of treated but still radioactive wastewater from the Fukushima nuclear power plant...