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Fukushima

Nuclear protesters

Six years later, Japan is still struggling to clean up Fukushima

Technology

An ice wall and pumps are keeping some water from being contaminated, but the problem of hazardous waste is growing — fast.

worker at the Fukushima plant

Climate change is fueling a second chance for nuclear power

Science
The coastal Japanese city of Ishinomaki, before the Tsunami... and today.

In search of an owner… our reporter tracks down a Japanese diver nearly devastated by the 2011 tsunami

Development
Caroline Kennedy visits offshore wind turbine

Japan has just built the world’s most powerful offshore wind turbine

Technology
Row of cherry blossom trees

The 99,000 cherry trees Japan to salve the sorrow of a tsunami

Environment
Ishinomaki, Japan following the March 11, 2011 earthquake and tsunami.

Marco Werman: The tiny item I kept amid a sea of destruction

Environment

Before me, ships were tossed ashore from Japan’s 2011 tsunami. Homes flattened. What was this tiny rubber stamp doing at my feet? Who did it belong to?

Rasen kaigan (Spiral Shore) 45 from the series Rasen kaigan (Spiral Shore), 2012.

These artists remember the Fukushima disaster through their photography

Arts

On the fourth anniversary of the tsunami and nuclear disaster, a museum displays photographers who not only recorded the event’s physical effects but interpreted the tragedy’s overarching significance.

Former NHK anchor Jun Hori speaks at a TEDx event in Kyoto, Japan, about opening Japanese journalism to non-traditional sources.

Japan’s timid coverage of Fukushima led this news anchor to revolt — and he’s not alone

Media

Many Japanese believe the media hasn’t done its job in holding the government and power companies accountable for the Fukushima disaster. Jun Hori, a former TV anchor, agreed. Now he and others are starting new media companies to break the compliant mold of Japanese reporting.

These residents have been given temporary jobs maintaining public places.

Not everyone wants the clean-up in Fukushima to be over

Environment

It’s been three and a half years since the nuclear disaster in Fukushima, and clean-up is still going. The area is still too dangerous for residents to return, but an army of decontamination employees has created its own small economy in the area, keeping a small number of businesses alive.

PBS NewsHour Science Correspondent Miles O'Brien

Science reporter Miles O’Brien on the Fukushima cleanup, irradiated fish and losing his arm on assignment

Environment

Three years after the tsunami-induced meltdown at Japan’s Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, PBS NewsHour correspondent Miles O’Brien talks about the continuing contamination crisis, and the accident that caused him to lose his arm.Three years after the tsunami-induced meltdown at Japan’s Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, PBS NewsHour correspondent Miles O’Brien talks about the continuing contamination crisis, and the accident that caused him to lose his arm.

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