Fukushima

TOKYO (Reuters) – The Olympic torch relay will start in Fukushima on Thursday, kicking off a four-month countdown to the summer Games in Tokyo, delayed from 2020 and the first ever organised during a global pandemic. Some 10,000 runners will take the torch across Japan’s 47 prefectures, including far-flung islands,...Read Full StoryTokyo OlympicsFukushimaOlympic GamesTsunamiReutersJapaneseSpectatorsTop-level AthletesMasksGreeceFar-flung IslandsJulyEmergencyJ-VillageRichard Pullin

TOKYO – An online advertisement featuring a woman saying the debate over gender equality is outdated has sparked furore in Japan for being sexist, a month after an outcry over sexist comments by the former Olympics organizing chief saw him step down. In the advertisement, which was released on Monday...Read Full StoryJapanGender EqualitySparksSummer Olympic GamesEconomic EqualityPolitical DebateEconomic EmpowermentPolitical NewsTwitterWorld Economic ForumOutrageSexist CommentsPolitical EmpowermentWomenFuroreYoshiro MoriMizuho FukushimaSeiko Hashimoto

Japan will release more than a million tons of treated radioactive water from the stricken Fukushima nuclear plant into the sea in a decades-long operation, reports said Friday, despite strong opposition from environmentalists, local fishermen and farmers. The release of the water, which has been filtered to reduce radioactivity, is likely to start in 2022 at the earliest, said national dailies the Nikkei, the Yomiuri, and other local media.Radioactive DecayJapanFukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power PlantSeawaterFukushima PrefectureSouth KoreaSea WaterOcean WaterRadioactive WasteNuclear ReactorsInternational Atomic Energy AgencyYomiuriKatsunobu KatoWaste WaterPlant Operator TEPCORead Full Story

Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga announced that Japan will become country carbon neutral by 2050, Bloomberg reported. As the world's third-largest economy, this will require a 'fundamental shift' away from coal, The Washington Post reported. Suga replaced former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe last month, after he resigned due to health...Read Full Story  Carbon NeutralityClimate Change MitigationThe Washington PostThe New York TimesNuclear PowerNet NeutralityCarbon EmissionsEnergy PolicyClimate PolicyBloombergNewClimate InstituteGreenpeace JapanSam AnnesleyTakeshi KuramochiFukushimaYoshihide SugaShinzo AbeSuga

Two struggling towns in northern Japan are vying to host an underground repository of highly radioactive waste from the nation’s nuclear power plants in the hope that it will bring a much-needed financial windfall - an

Japan’s government has reportedly decided to release more than 1m tonnes of contaminated water from the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant into the sea, setting it on a collision course with local fishermen who say the move will destroy their industry. Media reports said work to release the water, which...Water PollutionJapanTonneFukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power PlantTokyo Electric Power CompanySeawaterSouth KoreaContaminated WaterSea WaterOcean WaterNuclear PlantsNuclear Power PlantsTepcoInternational Atomic Energy AgencyAdvanced Liquid Processing SystemRead Full Story

History may show that Elon Musk did more to pave the way toward a more vibrant economy for Japan than the country’s longest serving prime minister. In the weeks after Shinzo Abe stepped down on Sept. 16, economists came to grips with how little had changed in his 2,821 days in office. Lots of government stimulus sugar highs and incremental tweaks, but no structural reform Big Bang to boost competitiveness and innovation.Read Full Story ChinaTokyoRenewable EnergyPanasonicToyotaSouth KoreaTesla EnergyElectric VehiclesWorld Resources InstituteHelen MountfordFukushimaTesla Billionaire MuskJapan CarbonJapan Inc. FeelingTech AmbitionsShinzo AbeElon MuskSugaXi JinpingYoshihide SugaJunichiro Koizumi

TOKYO -- Japan will achieve zero carbon emissions by 2050, Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga declared Monday in his first policy speech as leader, outlining an ambitious agenda as the country struggles to balance economic and pandemic concerns. The policy speech at the outset of the parliamentary session reflects Suga’s pragmatic...Read Full Story Greenhouse GasChinaTokyoJapaneseClimate ChangeEuropean UnionEnergy PolicyGovernment PolicyEconomic PolicyClimate PolicyFukushima Dai-IchiScience Council Of JapanMari YamaguchiNuclear PowerNuclear EnergySugaYoshihide SugaShinzo AbeKim Jong Un

BERLIN -- A shipment of reprocessed nuclear waste arrived Monday at a port in northern Germany, and authorities were braced for likely protests as it is transported across the country to a storage site. A ship carrying six containers of waste from the Sellafield reprocessing plant in England docked in...Read Full Story Radioactive WasteFreight TransportNuclear Power PlantPortBerlinFrankfurtJapanFukushimaNorthern GermanyProtestsReprocessed Nuclear WasteStorage SitesBERLINAuthoritiesNews Agency Dpa

led by yusuke sagawa, architecture office nevertheless has completed ‘house shazai’, a family residence in fukushima, japan, that mediates between opposing scales, structures and façades. on the outside, a two-story terrace sits at the boundary between the building and the garden, enclosed with wooden columns and braces. inside, tiny windows between interior walls allow small rays of sunlight to penetrate the main living space from other rooms.Read Full Story Living SpaceBeijingFukushima PrefectureYusuke SagawaFloor SpaceWhite WallsWhite SpaceOpen SpaceARCHITONICArchitecture Office` House Shazai 'ShazaiLOGDesignboomScales