The Japanese nuclear energy watchdog raised the incident level from one to three on the international scale that measures the severity of atomic accidents. This was an acknowledgement that the power station was in its greatest crisis since the reactors melted down after the tsunami in 2011. But some nuclear experts are concerned that the problem is a good deal worse than either Tepco or the Japane
The Fukushima Daiichi site is now populated by large numbers of storage tanks Workers at the damaged Fukushima nuclear power facility in Japan have to deal with huge volumes of contaminated water. The difficulties of handling this water, some of which has leaked from storage tanks, has prompted the authorities to consider measures such as an "ice wall" to better contain the area around the trouble
Japan's era of shoguns and samurai is long over, but the country does have one, or maybe two, surviving ninjas. Experts in the dark arts of espionage and silent assassination, ninjas passed skills from father to son - but today's say they will be the last. Japan's ninjas were all about mystery. Hired by noble samurai warriors to spy, sabotage and kill, their dark outfits usually covered everything
As Japan and China continue to exchange angry words over their competing claims to an uninhabited group of islands in the East China Sea, it's not that easy to get a close look - and sometimes a little deception is required. When you arrive in a new country as a foreign correspondent, the first thing you try to do is figure out how that country works. Japan, where I arrived three months ago, has a
Eleven-year-old Fuka Haruna on how Twitter has given her a voice "People often tell me to die or call me ugly and annoying on Twitter. There are days I wish I was dead," wrote 11-year-old Fuka Haruna. "But I know that no matter how much I cry, or even kill myself, the bullies won't feel a thing." Fuka wrote the comments for a special series, external on bullying by Japan's Asahi newspaper. Thirty
Chinese Foreign Minister Yang Jiechi called the Japanese move illegal and invalid A war of words over islands claimed by both Japan and China continued at the United Nations, as the US called for cooler heads to prevail. In a speech, China's foreign minister accused Japan of stealing the islands, which lie in the East China Sea. In reply Japan's deputy ambassador said the islands were Japanese ter
Hillary Clinton has called on the United Nations Security Council to make a renewed effort to deal with the conflict in Syria. The US secretary of state said the council was "paralysed". China and Russia have vetoed two attempts by Western members to impose tougher measures on the regime. UK-based activist group the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said more than 305 people died on Wednesday, t
The BBC's Mariko Oi in Tokyo: ''It was a disaster... made in Japan'' The crisis at the Fukushima nuclear plant was "a profoundly man-made disaster", a Japanese parliamentary panel has said in a report. The disaster "could and should have been foreseen and prevented" and its effects "mitigated by a more effective human response", it said.
The BBC's Jonathan Head: "The same group has claimed responsibility for three previous attacks and shares the same jihadist ideology as al-Qaeda" A video posted online in the name of an Islamist group, al-Nusra Front, says it carried out two bomb attacks in the Syrian capital Damascus on Thursday. The attacks took place near a military intelligence building during the morning rush hour, killing 55
The last of the three reactors at the Tomari nuclear plant is being switched off Japan is switching off its last working nuclear reactor, as part of the safety drive since the March 2011 tsunami triggered a meltdown at the Fukushima plant. The third reactor at the Tomari plant, in Hokkaido prefecture, is shutting down for routine maintenance.
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