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Conditions inside Fukushima's ruined reactors still unclear after 13 years

Japan on Monday marked 13 years since a massive earthquake and tsunami hit the country’s northern coasts. Nearly 20,000 people died, whole towns were wiped out and the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant was destroyed, creating deep fears of radiation that linger today.

By Mari Yamaguchi | News | March 11th 2024

Perfect Days is smart and literate, poignant and deeply engrossing

It's one of three top-tier non-English, subtitled, films this week. One is Oscar nominated.

By Volkmar Richter | Reviews, Entertainment | February 8th 2024

An evacuee volunteers to grill pieces of fish at a temporary evacuation center in Suzu in the Noto peninsula facing the Sea of Japan, northwest of Tokyo, on Jan. 3, 2024, following Monday's deadly earthquake. (AP Photo/Hiro Komae)

New Year’s Day quake in Japan kills 64 but luckily, no tsunami

The powerful earthquake that shattered the peace of New Year’s Day in central Japan did not spur massive tsunamis like those that scoured the Pacific coast in 2011, killing nearly 20,000 people and forcing tens of thousands of people from their homes.

By Hiro Komae & Elaine Kurtenbach | News | January 3rd 2024

This aerial view shows the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant in Fukushima, northern Japan, on Thursday, Aug. 24, 2023.(Kyodo News via AP)

China bans seafood from Japan after the Fukushima wastewater release

The tsunami-wrecked Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant began releasing its first batch of treated radioactive water into the Pacific Ocean on Thursday — a controversial step that prompted China to ban seafood from Japan.

By Mari Yamaguchi | News, Politics | August 24th 2023

South Korean lawmakers hold banners against Japanese plans to release treated wastewater from the damaged Fukushima nuclear power plant, during a rally in front of the Prime Minister's office on July 10, 2023, in Tokyo. (AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko)

Japan defends report on Fukushima water release plan

Japan's industry minister visited the tsunami-wrecked Fukushima nuclear power plant on Monday to see equipment that would be used in the planned release into the sea of treated radioactive water to ensure the safety of the controversial plan, while demonstrators, including many from South Korea, rallied against it.

By Mari Yamaguchi | News | July 10th 2023

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau makes his way to a meeting at the United Nations in New York on Thursday, April 27, 2023. File photo by The Canadian Press/Sean Kilpatrick

Global, economic security top priorities on Trudeau's trip to G7 summit in South Korea

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is set to leave on Monday for a weeklong trip to Asia, where he will make his first official visit to South Korea and attend the G7 leaders' summit in Japan.

By Nojoud Al Mallees & Dylan Robertson | News, Politics | May 15th 2023

Crab landed on the dock at St. John's Harbour on Thursday, May 6, 2021. File photo by The Canadian Press/Paul Daly

Atlantic fishers decry Japan's Russian crab imports, but Tokyo says Canada exports negligible

Atlantic fishers are feeling the pinch as Japan brings in cheap Russian product rather than Canadian snow crabs, with federal ministers and provincial premiers saying they are raising the issue with Japanese officials.

By Dylan Robertson | News, Politics | May 2nd 2023

Lesson from Fukushima: Collusion in the nuclear domain

This month marks the 12th anniversary of the Fukushima disaster, when three nuclear reactors in Japan suffered catastrophic meltdowns.

Opinion

By Gordon Edwards & Susan O’Donnell | Opinion | March 13th 2023

Japanese PM’s visit a chance for Canada to make good on promised ban on horse exports for slaughter

Live horses do not make up a significant percentage of the overall value of our total exports to Japan and serve only to satisfy a small niche market of wealthy individuals who are willing and able to pay top dollar for raw horse sashimi.

Opinion

By Kaitlyn Mitchell | Opinion | January 13th 2023

This aerial photo shows the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant in Okuma town, Fukushima prefecture, north of Tokyo, on March 17, 2022. Photo by: The Canadian Press/AP/Shohei Miyano

Japan does about face and goes all in on nuclear

Under the new policy, Japan will maximize the use of existing reactors by restarting as many of them as possible and prolonging the operating life of aging ones beyond a 60-year limit. The government also pledged to develop next-generation reactors.

By Mari Yamaguchi | News | December 22nd 2022

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