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Fukushima beach reopens for swimming

Families and surfers in Japan have finally been allowed to swim at a beach near the Fukushima nuclear plant, the first time...

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21st July 2019 6:07 PM

Paralysed Aussie’s battle to get home

An Australian man who was seriously injured during a drift-racing event in Japan is facing an uphill battle to get home for...

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22nd Nov. 2018 2:11 AM

Danny Westwood was paralysed in a drift-racing accident in Japan. Picture: Supplied

Radiation leaks at Fukushima pose a global threat

Lethal levels of radiation have been detected at Japan's Fukushima nuclear power plant, seven years after its destruction...

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04th Feb. 2018 11:02 AM

Clean-up work continues at the Fukushima nuclear power plant seven years after the meltdown of three reactors.

The ghost towns of Fukushima

A look at the abandoned houses of Fukushima.

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09th Nov. 2017 12:11 PM

Behind the nuclear curtain: Fukushima explored six years on

DOCUMENTARY makers entered the no-go zone to capture eerie images of the abandoned city of Fukushima, six years after its...

Hunters deployed to kill radioactive wild boars at Fukushima

RESIDENTS returning home as authorities declare evacuated areas safe six years after earthquake.

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12th March 2017 4:03 PM

Boars roam near a barricade set up to restrict the entry to difficult-to-return zones in Futaba, near the tsunami-crippled Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear plant, Fukushima prefecture, Japan Saturday, March 11, 2017. On Saturday, Japan marked the anniversary of the 2011 massive earthquake and tsunami that struck the nation.

6.9 magnitude quake has hit off the coast of Fukushima

AN earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 6.9 has struck off the coast of Fukushima prefecture in Japan.

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22nd Nov. 2016 7:11 AM

Fukushima reactor bosses face up to 5 years jail

THREE former Tokyo Electric Power Co executives charged over their actions in the 2011 Fukushima nuclear disaster will...

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02nd March 2016 5:03 AM

Foreign media visited to the plant, just a month before the fifth anniversary of the nuclear accident. The 9.0-magnitude earthquake struck 11 March 2011, triggering a tsunami that claimed the lives of an estimated 15,000 people, and leading to a nuclear accident on a level that had not been seen since Chernobyl in 1986.

Naoto Kan tells Australia risk with nuclear is too great

A FORMER Japanese prime minister caught in the Fukushima nuclear disaster warned about the dangers of nuclear power.

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29th Aug. 2014 6:08 AM

6.8-magnitude earthquake hits Pacific near Fukushima plant

JAPAN'S east coast has been hit by a minor tsunami after a strong 6.8-magnitude earthquake struck near the Fukushima...