Fukushima

[BEIJING] China and Japan said on Friday they were moving closer to ending a years-long dispute over Tokyo’s handling of nuclear wastewater that prompted Beijing to ban imports of Japanese seafood.

CHINA and Japan reached an agreement over the discharge of wastewater from the wrecked Fukushima nuclear plant, the two governments said on Friday (Sep 20), paving the way for a restart of seafood shi...

Japan’s nuclear power regulator on Wednesday (Dec 27) lifted an operational ban imposed on Tokyo Electric Power Company’s (Tepco) Kashiwazaki-Kariwa nuclear power plant two years ago, allowing it to w...

Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida and Chinese President Xi Jinping agreed to seek a resolution through dialogue to a dispute over wastewater from the Fukushima nuclear plant, Kishida said after th...

DAISUKE Suzuki is helping by doing what he does best as life tentatively returns to normal for the devastated fishing communities of Japan’s Fukushima region: making sake.

JAPAN began releasing a second batch of treated wastewater from the Fukushima nuclear plant on Thursday, its operator said.

THE first phase of releasing treated waste water from Fukushima that has angered China will end on Monday (Sep 11) as planned, the stricken Japanese nuclear plant’s operator said.

MORE than 100 fishermen and locals living near Fukushima will file a lawsuit this week seeking to stop the release of wastewater from the stricken Japanese nuclear plant, they said Monday (Sep 4).

CHINA’S outrage over Japan’s release of treated wastewater from the crippled Fukushima nuclear plant has dimmed prospects for improved ties when top officials of the two countries meet this week.