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In this Nov. 12, 2011 file photo, workers in protective suits and masks wait to enter the emergency operation center at the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power station in Okuma, Japan.
Fukushima 10 Years Later
Author Yoichi Funabashi on Fukushima crisis 10 years later: Nuclear energy was and still is ‘unforgiving’
Companies Might Have to ‘Lean In’ to Transparency by Reporting Salaries
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When Yuji Onuma was a kid, he lived in Futaba, a part of Fukushima. Today, he has kids of his own — but they can’t go near Futaba. Here, he wears protective clothing during a visit to his old house.
Books
Photos: See Japan’s nuclear legacy — from Fukushima to Hiroshima
A house and vehicles damaged by the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami, as seen in Ishinomaki, northern Japan.
Environment
A decade after Katrina, one researcher looks for global lessons in its aftermath
Caroline Kennedy visits offshore wind turbine
Technology
Japan has just built the world’s most powerful offshore wind turbine
Soy Sauce
Food
Tsunami-proof: Japanese soy sauce rises from ruins of 2011 disaster
Former NHK anchor Jun Hori speaks at a TEDx event in Kyoto, Japan, about opening Japanese journalism to non-traditional sources.
Media
Japan’s timid coverage of Fukushima led this news anchor to revolt — and he’s not alone
These residents have been given temporary jobs maintaining public places.
Environment
Not everyone wants the clean-up in Fukushima to be over
PBS NewsHour Science Correspondent Miles O'Brien
Environment
Science reporter Miles O’Brien on the Fukushima cleanup, irradiated fish and losing his arm on assignment
A sign reading "Nuclear Power - The Energy for a Better Future" hangs over a street in the town of Futaba, inside the 12-mile radius exclusion zone around Japan’s crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant in a 2012 photo.
Environment
One lesson of the Fukushima nuclear meltdown is that Japan’s culture needs to change
A Tokyo Electric Power Corp (TEPCO) official and journalists wearing protective equipment stand near storage tanks for radioactive water at Japan's tsunami-crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant in November, 2013. A team of Japanese scientists say
Environment
Algae to the rescue at Fukushima? Scientists say it could help
An aerial view of the tsunami-crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant and its contaminated water storage tanks, taken August 31, 2013. Japan pledged nearly $500 million to contain leaks and decontaminate radioactive water fro
Environment
Fukushima Leaks Up the Ante for Japanese Government
Environment
Germany to ditch nuclear power by 2022
Environment
In Stressful Wake of Fukushima Disaster, Japan Now Dealing With ‘Atomic Divorce’
Environment
Jazz Guitarist Yuto Kanazawa Writes ‘The Ocean’ in Aftermath of Fukushima Disaster
Global Politics
Life After the Fukushima Meltdown in Japan
Conflict & Justice
French Sour on Nuclear Power
Environment
Japanese Quake: Before and After Photos
Global Politics
Inside Japan’s Nuclear Exclusion Zone
Environment
Safecast Crowdsourced Radation Data and the Unknown
Germany’s Anti-Nuclear Shift
Environment
Fukushima likely not as bad as Chernobyl, but what does that mean?