About UsTEPCO and the government have spent 590 billion yen ($4.93 billion) battling the Fukushima nuclear disaster, b
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TEPCO and the government have spent 590 billion yen ($4.93 billion) battling the Fukushima nuclear disaster, b
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The Fukushima prefectural government approved on Tuesday the delivery of radioactively contaminated soil and o
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The Fukushima prefectural government may approve next week the delivery of radioactively contaminated soil and
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The environment minister proposed to give Fukushima Prefecture and two prefectural towns the authority to chec
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There are significant questions over where radioactive material from the 2011 nuclear accident will be permane
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Power companies have resisted government calls to construct safer storage facilities for spent nuclear fuel an
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The Foreign Ministry will help local governments tear down overseas barriers on food imports maintained becaus
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The central government released dozens more closed-door accounts by people closely connected to the Fukushima
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The government has given up on an earlier plan, slated to start in January, to transport radioactive soil and
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Three years and nine months after the outbreak of the Fukushima nuclear disaster, Japan is considering turning
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Kagoshima Gov. Yuichiro Ito accepted the explanation offered by Economy, Trade and Industry Minister Yoichi Mi
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New trade and industry minister Yoichi Miyazawa paid a visit to the disaster-hit Fukushima No. 1 nuclear plant
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The Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology Ministry is withholding minutes from meetings held by t
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Japan intends to ratify an international convention that sets a global uniform standard for compensating victi
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The government called for utilities to swiftly decide whether to scrap aging reactors that would be particular
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The Environment Ministry has completed briefings for landowners of a site to store radioactive waste from the
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Consumers are more reluctant than ever to buy products from Fukushima Prefecture, even though more than three
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The national government is preparing a temporary nuclear evacuation shelter on an island offshore of this town
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The Fukushima governor told two Cabinet ministers he will accept a central government plan to store radioactiv
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The government plans to make public testimony regarding the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster given by plant
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A senior Hong Kong official sounded negative about easing the import curbs the region imposed on some food fro
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The government offered 301 billion yen in subsidies over the next 30 years to local authorities in Fukushima P
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The Ministry of the Environment said that its efforts to remove radioactive contamination from Fukushima disas
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The central government has offered to pay the Fukushima Prefectural Government ¥230 billion over the next 30 y
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The Saitama Prefectural government was unaware of about 2,400 people taking shelter in the region after evacua
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The government no longer plans to lift evacuation orders on July 26 for village of Kawauchi, whose citizens we
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The government is planning to lift an evacuation order on part of a village within a 20-kilometer radius from
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Sixty-six traditional tumble dolls from Fukushima Prefecture are on display inside Britain’s Houses of Parliam
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Evacuees can return home in the hardest-hit areas around the stricken Fukushima No. 1 nuclear plant by 2021, a
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A cattle farmer from near the Fukushima No.1 nuclear power plant brought one of his cows to central Tokyo̵
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Environment Minister Nobuteru Ishihara apologized on June 17 for suggesting that payments to residents in Fuku
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Japan’s Environment Minister Nobuteru Ishihara on Tuesday apologized for his comments suggesting that mo
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The Diet enacted legislation to end the grip regional monopolies have held for 60 years on the household elect
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Radiation levels in many areas of Fukushima Prefecture designated as zones where it is difficult for residents
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Japan has failed to include 640 kilograms of unused plutonium in its annual report to the International Atomic
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The government will release the transcripts of interviews with 772 people about the 2011 Fukushima meltdown cr
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Singapore has decided to lift a ban on food imports from Japan’s Fukushima Prefecture, Prime Minister Le
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The government has started soliciting candidates in and outside Japan for projects to obtain the latest knowle
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The government reiterated that it will continue to promote the restart of the country’s nuclear p
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The Diet enacted a revised law that will give a state-backed fund dealing with compensation issues related to
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The government intends to turn a national soccer training center located just 20 kilometers from the Fukushima
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Belated government estimates of radiation doses that residents would face if they returned to their homes near
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The final version of a draft energy report reinforces the role of nuclear power in Japan, but falls short of s
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Japan’s House of Representatives on April 4th passed two nuclear pacts with Turkey and the United Arab E
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The Hakodate Municipal Government on the northern Japanese island of Hokkaido filed a lawsuit on April 3rd aga
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The government has agreed to Fukushima prefecture’s request to build intermediate storage facilities for
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Businesses and households in Japan have been forced to shoulder greater financial burdens since the outbreak o
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The Democratic Party of Japan administration had devised a specific plan to wean Japan off nuclear energy, but
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Very high levels of accumulated radioactive cesium have been detected in the mud of hundreds of reservoirs use
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The Japanese government on Feb 25th unveiled a draft energy policy that characterizes atomic power as an impor
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An evacuation advisory issued after the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear plant meltdowns in March 2011 will likely be l
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The Abe administration’s long-awaited basic energy policy, set to be approved in March, means that Japan
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On Feb 18th, 11 ministries in the government including Reconstruction Agency had released a package of state m
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The Ministry of the Environment said on Jan. 20 that it wants to designate three municipalities in Miyagi Pref
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Industry minister Toshimitsu Motegi said on Jan 14th that he will not be rushed into deciding a new energy pol
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Former Prime Minister Morihiro Hosokawa is likely to run in the upcoming Tokyo gubernatorial election o
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The Abe administration aired new policy guideline for rebuilding Fukushima Prefecture on Dec.20, which has mor
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A government panel decided on Dec.10th that the Japan Atomic Energy Commission, which played a key role in pro
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An Environment Ministry panel is saying that it is possible to build interim facilities in three towns, namely
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Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry began working to continue promoting nuclear power even immediately aft
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TEPCO will limit its annual repayments of financial aid from the government to pay compensation to ¥50 billion
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Kyodo news obtained a document mentioning that the government plans to stipulate in its long-term energy plan
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The Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry plans to provide financial assistance to municipalities near the F
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The Japanese government plans to purchase a vast area of land around the Fukushima No.1 plant to build sites t
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A government panel to settle disputes over nuclear accident compensation is set to provide damages in lump-sum
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The government plans to abandon its ineffective policy of waiting for municipalities to volunteer to host a fi
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People forced to flee the radiation in Fukushima Prefecture who probably never will be able to return home may
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It will take up to 31 years for the Japanese government to recover the 5 trillion yen in aid which may provide
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According to a recently released report by a U.N. panel, Japanese government may have underestimated by 20 per
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Two years after the nuclear disaster, bags of radioactive waste continue to sit on private land and at tempora
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PM Abe on Oct 6th mentioned that more foreign assistance is needed in containing the crisis at the Fukushima D
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At least 13 municipalities in Chiba, Ibaraki and Tochigi prefectures have sent critical comments to the Recons
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The Namie town assembly in Fukushima Prefecture passed a protest resolution against Prime Minister Shinzo Abe
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Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said that he urged TEPCO to scrap No.5 and 6 reactors at the Fukushima Daiichi nucle
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The Japanese government on Sept 27th was criticized by some nuclear experts at a briefing held on the sideline
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The Japanese Fisheries Agency will send a senior official to South Korea to ask the country to reconsider its
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According to Mainichi16 newspaper, 66 percent of people who answered the survey say they don’t believe P
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Mr. Kazuhiko Yamashita,TEPCO’s executive-level title of fellow, admitted during a meeting with Democrati
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India and Japan still need to address “several outstanding issues” before a bilateral civil nuclea
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The Ministry of the Environment announced Sept. 10 that the decontamination work of seven municipalities in Fu
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On Sep 9th, victims of Fukushima nuclear accident expressed disappointment and anger at the announcement that
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According to the investigation by Mainichi newspaper, it was revealed that inter-agency meetings on the extent
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The leader of Tokyo’s bid for the 2020 Olympics has sent a letter to IOC members in order to reassure th
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According to the government source on Sep 3rd, the government will spend over 47 billion yen on emergency meas
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On Aug 30th, the central government has finalized its basic policy of the Victims Protection Act which was ena
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Japanese Foreign Minister Fumio Kishida and his Ukrainian counterpart Leonid Kozhara agreed on Aug 26th that t
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Economy, Trade and Industry Minister Toshimitsu Motegi visited Fukushima No. 1 Plant on Aug. 26 to inspect hig
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Former Prime Minister Naoto Kan, who led the government’s response to the Fukushima nuclear disaster in
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The Japanese government announced that around 300 tons of radioactive water could be leaking from the Fukushim
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The Japanese government is planning to provide funds from tax to assist Tokyo Electric Power Co to stop radioa
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According the report of Mainichi Newspaper, the Japanese government has failed to sufficiently evaluate counte
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The fact that the Reconstruction Agency secretly agreed with other government agencies to put pff assistance t
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The cost for decontamination and storage of radioactive materials in Fukushima Prefecture will be up to 5.13 t
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Japanese government decided on June 25th to provide an additional 666.2 billion yen to Tokyo Electric Power Co
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After the release of the report by UN Special Rapporteur Anand Grover, Japanese government published the coun
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On May 29th Indian prime minister, Manmohan Singh, and Japanese prime ministar, Shinzo Abe, signed a joint sta
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Even though the issues of Fukushima No.1 nuclear plant have been going on, Japan is considering resuming talks
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The Ministry of Environment had conducted thyroid tests to 4,365 children aged between 3 and 18 in three other
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Upon the request from the Ministry of Environment, the study was conducted by researchers at at the National I
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