FUKUSHIMA, Japan, May 3 Kyodo - Municipal authorities on Tuesday rehearsed an operation to guide evacuees during temporary visits to their homes in the off-limits zone around the crippled Fukushima

TOKYO, May 3 Kyodo - Radiation readings have risen to 100-1,000 times the normal level on the Pacific seabed near the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, the operator said Tuesday.

TOKYO, May 3 Kyodo - The government is planning to seek contributions from the electric power industry for an envisaged entity to help Tokyo Electric Power Co.

TOKYO, May 3 Kyodo - The government assumed a worst-case scenario of ''significant public exposure'' to radiation when workers were struggling to bring a nuclear reactor under control at the Fukus

TOKYO (Kyodo) - Sales of new vehicles including minivehicles in Japan marked the largest fall of 47.3 percent in April from a year earlier to 185,673 units in the wake of the devastating March 11 e

FUKUI (Kyodo) - Leaks of radioactive substances from fuel rods are suspected to have occurred at a nuclear power plant in Tsuruga, the Fukui prefectural government said Monday, citing a rise in the

TOKYO (Kyodo) - Tokyo prosecutors on Monday indicated a man who claims to be a Somalian minor over an attack on a tanker operated by Japan's Mitsui O.S.K. Lines Ltd.

TOKYO (Kyodo) - The operator of the crisis-hit Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant on Monday commenced work to install an air filter in the building housing the No.

TOKYO (Kyodo) - Japan's system for predicting the volume of radioactive materials to be released into the environment failed in the wake of the nuclear crisis at the Fukushima Daiichi power plant d

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