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Fukushima on track to become a renewable energy hub

In hopes of reinventing its image, new life is breathing into Fukushima, the Japanese northeastern prefecture that...

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Japan mulls pouring 1 million metric tons of radioactive Fukushima water into Pacific Ocean

Fukushima cleanup continues over six years after the 2011 disaster - and the country hasn't yet decided what to...

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Dozens of Japanese cities and towns quietly go off-grid

Dozens of cities and towns in Japan have quietly shifted from traditional utility-based grid power system to a...

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Fukushima is surrendering to nature six years after nuclear meltdown

Nature has come for Fukushima. Six years after a nuclear meltdown resulted in a mass exodus of neighboring residents,...

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Fukushima robot finds lava-like deposits thought to be melted nuclear fuel

Six years after the Fukushima Daiichi meltdowns, there's still a lot of cleanup to be done. Tokyo Electric Power...

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Hundreds of radioactive wild boars run amok in Fukushima, Japan

Packs of radioactive wild boars are running loose in northern Japan, where the meltdown of the Fukushima nuclear...

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Fukushima radiation levels at highest since 2011 disaster

As cleanup efforts threaten to span decades, radiation levels inside a Fukushima Daiichi reactor are at their highest...

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Hollywood robot designer builds 13-foot mech suit to clean up Fukushima

A famous Hollywood robot designer has been tapped to help clean up Fukushima. Vitaly Bulgarov and Korea Future...

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Massive 6.9 magnitude earthquake shakes Japan’s Fukushima region

Early Tuesday morning, a 6.9 earthquake rocked coastal Japan, sending residents of Fukushima into a panic and raising...

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Japan builds controversial ice wall to solve groundwater issues at Fukushima

About two years ago, the Japanese government pledged millions of dollars for a huge ice wall designed to halt flowing...

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Beautiful cave-like museum with a folded roof honors Japan’s prehistoric hunter-gatherers

Starting from 12,000 BCE to around 300 BC, Japan’s Jōmon period was characterized by hunter-gatherer culture...

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Did the Fukushima disaster's radiation mutate these daisies?

Photos of mutated flowers, tomatoes and other items have been showing up on Twitter, Facebook and a variety of...

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Japan is building a 250-mile concrete sea wall to keep tsunamis at bay

It’s an age-old philosophy: if you want to keep something out, just build a big wall. That’s exactly how Japan...

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Asano turns old Japanese restaurant into snazzy, reflective Slundre hair salon

Related: Vintage Trailer Transformed Into Adorable Holiday Hair Studio in Portland The area for mixing hair...

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Shigeru Ban Unveils Donut-Shaped Solar Community Center for Fukushima Kids

The LVMH Kodomo Art Maison is a new community center dedicated to children in Fukushima to support disaster relief...

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