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Japan disaster

December 2023

  • a still from All of Our Heartbeats Are Connected Through Exploding Stars showing a young man and a young woman looking into a tank of water

    All of Our Heartbeats Are Connected Through Exploding Stars review – dreamlike study of tsunami survivors

    Swedish visual artist Jennifer Rainsford has made an at times mesmerising film that follows the aftermath of Japan’s disastrous 2011 earthquake

September 2023

  • A view of locally caught seafood at the Hamanoeki Fish Market and Food Court in Soma, Fukushima Prefecture, Japan, 31 August 2023.

    Japan to release second batch of wastewater from Fukushima nuclear plant next week

  • Treated water storage tanks at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant

    State-backed disinformation fuelling anger in China over Fukushima water

August 2023

  • Fishers harvest abalones in Lianjiang County, Fujian. China has been accused of hypocrisy over its ban on seafood from Japan over the release of contaminated water from the damaged Fukushima nuclear plant.

    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 ban imposed on Japan
  • A South Korean protester is detained by police outside the Japanese embassy in Seoul on Thursday after Japan began releasing wastewater from the ruined Fukushima nuclear power plant.

    China bans Japanese seafood after Fukushima wastewater release

    Water containing radioactive tritium being pumped into Pacific via tunnel from Tepco plant, amid protests from China, South Korea and fishing communities

    • First Edition newsletter
      Wednesday briefing: Fukushima nuclear plant is set to flush tonnes of water into the sea – but is it safe?

    • Fukushima: wastewater from ruined nuclear plant to be released from Thursday, Japan says

    • Japan to start Fukushima water release within weeks – report

July 2023

  • An official in South Korea measures radiation levels of a fish imported from Japan

    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 year above the legal safety limit
  • Students in Seoul, South Korea, on Friday protest against Japan's plan to discharge treated radioactive water from the Fukushima nuclear plant into the ocean.

    UN report on Japan’s Fukushima water plans fails to placate opponents

    While South Korea offers official support, China and other voices in region continue to express concerns over discharge from nuclear plant
  • A Tepco employee at Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant.

    Fukushima plan to release water into ocean approved by UN watchdog

    IAEA report says discharge would have ‘negligible radiological impact on people and the environment’

February 2023

  • Workers in hazmat suits remove radioactive materials from contaminated water at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant

    Fukushima: Japan insists release of 1.3m tonnes of ‘treated’ water is safe

    Neighbouring countries and local fishers express concern as 12th anniversary of nuclear disaster looms

January 2023

  • The Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant in Okuma

    Fukushima: court upholds acquittals of three Tepco executives over disaster

  • A worker stands near tanks used to store treated radioactive water used to cool the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant

    Fukushima water to be released into ocean in next few months, says Japan

November 2022

  • Tsuyoshi Suda, an anti-nuclear campaigner, with Onagawa nuclear power plant in the background

    ‘A form of self-destruction’: Japan weighs up plan to expand nuclear power

    Japan’s prime minister is pushing for as many as 17 nuclear reactors to be switched back on, more than a decade on from the meltdown at Fukushima

October 2022

  • The tsunami-hit Okawa Elementary School is seen in Ishinomaki, Miyagi Prefecture, northeastern Japan March 28, 2011. About eighty percent of the students and teachers were killed or are missing after the school was devastated by a tsunami following the March 11 earthquake. REUTERS/Yuriko Nakao (JAPAN - Tags: DISASTER EDUCATION) - RTR2KIG8

    The Audio Long Read
    From the archive: The school beneath the wave: the unimaginable tragedy of Japan’s tsunami – podcast

    This week, from 2017: In 2011 a tsunami engulfed Japan’s north-east coast. More than 18,000 people were killed. Six years later, in one community, survivors are still tormented by a catastrophic split-second decision. By Richard Lloyd Parry

September 2022

  • Hisanao Okawara shows off his winery’s wares.

    Chateau Fukushima? Japanese winery tries to shake off negative image

    Ten years after the nuclear disaster, local agri-businesses are looking to the future

July 2022

  • The central control room of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant just over a week after the tsunami struck on 11 March 2011.

    Fukushima nuclear disaster: ex-bosses of owner Tepco ordered to pay ¥13tn

    Firm’s president at time of disaster among four defendants found liable for £80bn in damage by Tokyo court

April 2022

  • Rōki Sasaki

    Rōki Sasaki: the 20-year-old tsunami survivor behind the greatest game ever pitched

    The Japanese phenom has become a global star after one of the greatest games ever pitched, and he has survived tragedy along the way

March 2022

  • A dimly lit Tokyo at night, March 2011

    Energy crisis: UK could learn from Fukushima response, MPs told

    Japanese measures including turning down the heating and slower trains could ease pressure on British households, say experts
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