Fukushima

Confronting Rumors and Isolation Five Years Later in Fukushima

By Olivier Laurent

The Workers Trying to Save Fukushima

By Hannah Beech

How the Fukushima Disaster Affected Food Safety

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Fukushima Plant Worker Dies

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Eerie Photos of Japan's Coast

“I remember my parents taking me to the beach,” says photographer Asako Narahashi. “The coastline of Japan is very long and complex. There are beaches and mountains. They all have their unique expressions.”In her latest...

By Krystal Grow

See Inside Fukushima's Lethal Reactor

Photographer Dominic Nahr documented an exclusive tour of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant and spent three years documenting life in Japan's Fukushima prefecture, the northeastern region devastated by a nuclear melt down following an earthquake and a tsunami in March 2011.

By Hannah Beech

Fukushima: Inside the Most Dangerous Room in the World

Three-and-a-half years after a catastrophic meltdown, Fukushima is far from fixed

By Hannah Beech

Japanese PM Abe's Security-Policy Shift Blamed for Local Poll Loss

Prime Minister Shinzo Abe faces backlash just weeks after reversing Japan’s security policy

By TIME Staff

Report: Fukushima Workers Defied Orders and Fled Plant After Accident

A new report challenges previous account of events surrounding the worst nuclear disaster since Chernobyl

By Barbara Tasch

Japanese Firmly Disagree With Abe on Nukes

Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has unveiled a pro-nuclear blueprint for the country's energy future around the three-year mark of the disaster at Fukushima, a move that most Japanese appear to disagree with, even those who returned to Fukushima to rebuild their lives

By Per Liljas

#LightBoxFF: Q. Sakamaki's Surreal Snapshots

Redux photographer Q. Sakamaki has covered protests, riots, and disasters, but his Instagram feed is full of gracefully composed moments of serenity.

By Myles Little

Fukushima Three Years Later: How One Town Is Coping

Eating right, exercising, work, sense of community, and drinking all help buffer against mental illness

By Alexandra Sifferlin

Fukushima Fallout to Hit West Coast Next Month

Researchers who are tracking the radiation released during Japan's Fukushima reactor disaster say low levels will hit the U.S. in April, but added it shouldn't be enough to pose a threat to human beings, wildlife or the environment

By Sam Frizell

Japan Considers Nuclear Revival After Fukushima

Prime Minister Shinzo Abe is proposing re-opening Japan's nuclear plants less than three years after they were shuttered in the wake of the Fukushima disaster, causing outrage from some citizens afraid nuclear power will never be safe

By Bryan Walsh

Japan One Year Later: Photographs by James Nachtwey

James Nachtwey, who photographed Japan for TIME in the wake of last year's earthquake, tsunami and triple nuclear meltdown, returns to observe the anniversary of the tragedy.

By Krista Mahr

Revisiting Japan’s Ground Zero

Five months after the earthquake, tsunami and nuclear disaster that killed as many as 22,000 people and displaced nearly 125,000 others, Fukushima prefecture is still struggling to clean up and move on. Photographer William Daniels traveled near the exclusion zone, capturing vacant streets, massive devastation and the people who stayed behind.

By Patrick Witty
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