Emperor Naruhito and Empress Masako plan to visit Iwate, Miyagi and Fukushima prefectures next year, 15 years after a massive earthquake and tsunami struck the region. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/11/14/japan/imperial-couple-northeast-visit/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #emperornaruhito #empressmasako #imperialfamily #iwate #miyagi #fukushima #earthquakes #kumamoto
Japan has made its first shipment of scallops to China in two years after Beijing relaxed its restrictions on Japanese fishery products. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2025/11/07/scallop-exports-china/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #business #china #chinajapanrelations #hokkaido #fukushima #311 #aomori #fish #tepco
A Fukushima town eased entry restrictions Tuesday in some areas within the so-called difficult-to-return zone, which was heavily contaminated due to the 2011 nuclear accident. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/11/04/japan/fukushima-futaba-restrictions-ease/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #fukushima #tepco #311 #earthquakes
In Madagascar, many are unable to receive proper medical care due to a lack of equipment and know-how. A Fukushima firm is hoping to improve the situation by training people how to maintain medical devices. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/11/03/japan/society/fukushima-madagascar-medical-equipment-maintenance/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #society #madagascarjapanrelations #madagascar #medicine #hospitals #fukushima #aid
Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings began the fifth round of the fiscal 2025 release of treated water from its Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant in Fukushima Prefecture into the ocean. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/10/30/japan/fukushima-water-discharge-fifth/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #fukushima #tepco #nuclearenergy #earthquakes
The public and private sectors of Fukushima are banding together to preserve and pass on the prefecture's iconic Tsuruga Castle to future generations. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/10/13/japan/fukushima-tsuruga-castle-preservation/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #fukushima #tsurugacastle #tourism
Former lawmaker Yoshitami Kameoka pleaded not guilty Friday over his alleged distribution of cash to voters just before the official campaign period for the October 2024 House of Representatives election. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/10/03/japan/politics/lawmaker-kameoka-cash-distribution/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #politics #yoshitamikameoka #corruption #lowerhouse #japanesecourts #fukushima
A Ukrainian YouTuber with more than 6.5 million subscribers has been arrested in Japan after livestreaming himself trespassing in a house in the Fukushima nuclear exclusion zone, police and media said Friday. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/09/27/japan/crime-legal/youtuber-arrested-fukushima-livestream/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #crimelegal #fukushima #japanesepolice #internet #youtube
His memories are hazy, but for 95-year-old Hidetada Yoshida, the decadeslong pain in his right arm serves as a reminder of his experience mining for ores including uranium during the closing days of World War II. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/09/22/japan/95-year-old-speaks-of-wartime-uranium-mining-fukushima/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #wwii #fukushima #nuclearweapons #atomicbombings #mining
The Taiwanese government says it has begun a 60-day public comment period on lifting import restrictions on Japanese food imposed after the 2011 triple meltdown at the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear plant. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/09/02/japan/taiwan-lift-import-restrictions/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #taiwan #food #311 #fukushima #tepco
Police in Fukushima Prefecture arrested a 23-year-old pachinko parlor employee over a robbery case in which the employee allegedly opened the parlor's safe while pretending to be threatened to do so. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/08/20/japan/crime-legal/pachinko-parlor-worker-robbery/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #crimelegal #japanesepolice #robbery #fukushima #pachinko
Two men have been arrested on suspicion of robbing a pachinko parlor of around ¥28 million ($190,000) in Fukushima Prefecture on Tuesday, local police said. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/08/14/japan/crime-legal/pachinko-fukushima-robbery-arrest/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #crimelegal #pachinko #japanesepolice #fukushima
Jess Mahler
boosted
Rice fields and Totoro forest in Iwaki, Japan.
A short walk from the inlaw's place. It's always so scenic I have a hard time choosing photos, but somehow I don't think I've posted this view on fedi before. I guess my older photos pre-date the founding of sunny.garden.
Rice fields and Totoro forest in Iwaki, Japan.
A short walk from the inlaw's place. It's always so scenic I have a hard time choosing photos, but somehow I don't think I've posted this view on fedi before. I guess my older photos pre-date the founding of sunny.garden.
Michi Saito, 98, of Fukushima, recalls how her brother was killed by a dummy atomic bomb that U.S. forces used as training for the nuclear attacks on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/08/11/japan/fukushima-1945-mock-atomic-bombing/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #wwii #atomicbombings #fukushima
De Hiroshima à Fukushima, et retour
Les personnes évacuées de #Fukushima partagent avec les survivants de la bombe atomique un parcours de vie marqué du sceau de l’atome qui les a stigmatisés. Luttant contre l’énergie #nucléaire, elles voient avec crainte revenir la recherche militaro-industrielle.
Par Johann Fleuri › https://www.mediapart.fr/journal/international/070825/de-hiroshima-fukushima-et-retour?at_medium=rs-cm&at_campaign=mastodon&at_account=mediapart
People in Fukushima Prefecture and other parts of Japan are working to pass down the stories of "mock atomic bombs" the United States dropped in the country during World War II, which resulted in over 400 deaths. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/08/07/japan/wwii-us-mock-atomic-bombings-on-japan/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #atomicbombings #hiroshima #nagasaki #fukushima #wwii
Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings said Sunday that it has completed the second round of its fiscal 2025 release of treated water into the ocean from the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/08/03/japan/tepco-2nd-round-treated-water-release/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #tepco #fukushimano1 #radioactivewater #nuclearenergy #fukushima
The Tokyo District Court ordered Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings on Wednesday to pay about ¥100 million ($675,000) in damages over the 2011 accident at its Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/07/30/japan/crime-legal/tepco-ordered-to-pay-damages-nuclear-disaster/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #crimelegal #fukushimano1 #311 #earthquakes #tsunami #futaba #fukushima #japanesecourts
Sebastian Lasse
boosted
Aufgrund einer #Tsunami |-warnung hat der Betreiber der japanischen #AKW#Fukushima Daiichi und Daini Vorsichtsmaßnahmen an den #KKW getroffen.
Grund für die Warnung ist ein #Erdbeben der Magnitude 8.8, das vor der Küste der russischen Halbinsel #Kamtschatka registriert wurde. Siehe auch Meldung der USGS: https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/us6000qw60/executive