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The deadline for evacuation zones will interrupt centuries of farming in the region near the damaged nuclear plant. Some livestock will be sold, others will be slaughtered, adding to the animal death toll in the wake of the March earthquake and tsunami.

Despite stiff government warnings, some residents from the evacuated zone around Japan’s crippled Fukushima nuclear plant are trickling back in. Others never left.

Concerns are growing for the health of the some 600 people, so-called liquidators, struggling to stop deadly radiation leaking from the Fukushima nuclear plant. Many are resigned to the fact they could be dead within weeks.

The worst nuclear accident in history is frozen in time in this Ukrainian city. Is this the fate that awaits the Japanese towns near the Fukushima plant?

The Japanese nuclear plant, which continues to burn and emit radioactivity, was the lifeblood for people like Yutaka Takano, who was on the afternoon shift when disaster struck.

Japanese fascination for epic disasters – both natural and man-made – has long been expressed in film, as a way to exorcize very real dangers. And when the movie comes to life?

Much like Japanese workers brought in to fight the Fukushima nuclear emergency, the so-called liquidators were called on to put out the fires after the Chernobyl disaster of 1986. Despite subsequent health consequences, many say they’d do it again. Chernobyl monument to firefighters (Andrzej Karon) Like thousands of other Soviet citizens, Lew Falkowsky risked his […]

The Japanese city that has become a symbol of atomic devastation is shocked at its country’s current earthquake-triggered nuclear disaster. Hiroshima memorial (Senior Baron) HIROSHIMA – This city knows about nuclear power. On August 6, 1945, Hiroshima became the first city to be hit by the atomic bomb, and ever since has become the symbol […]

Nuclear accident fallout and the risk of a massive aftershock have left people — foreigners and the Japanese alike — wondering whether they should leave.

A 26-hour journey across the decimated region between Tokyo and Sendai finds villages drowned in mud, message boards to search for loved ones and the earth still moving.

Friday’s earthquake and the tsunami that followed is a massive disaster in Japan. Here’s a quick look at how it’s being covered by the Japanese media. (Pinboke) DEATH TOLL A precise count of victims in the immediate wake of a disaster of this scale and breadth is always hard to verify, especially in the early […]