Japan's nuclear plants faced global scrutiny after the devastating 2011 tsunami triggered by a 9.0 magnitude earthquake.

ISHINOMAKI, Miyagi Prefecture--This coastal city has been transformed, courtesy of a massive injection in government reconstruction spending following the 2011 earthquake and tsunami disaster that ...

From once-thriving cities contaminated with perilously high levels of radiation to desolate villages riddled with asbestos, ...

Likewise, military efforts to map ... biggest tsunami of the last thousand years. So they weren’t tall enough.” Neither was the wall protecting the back-up power supply at the Fukushima ...

(Mainichi/Hideyuki Kakinuma) IWAKI, Fukushima -- The final exhibition encouraging owners to collect items that were swept away by the tsunami following the 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake and ...

The final exhibition encouraging owners to collect items that were swept away by the tsunami following the 2011 Great East ...

Any tsunami could cause far more damage than the earthquake, as what happened in the horror 2011 wave that hit Fukushima. Masamasa Sato, chief of the crisis management department of Takanabe Town ...

A strong earthquake struck southwestern Japan, the U.S. Geological Survey said, prompting authorities to issue a tsunami ...

Japan began discharging the treated water from the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant in August 2023. The plant was damaged in the 2011 earthquake and tsunami, triggering meltdowns in its three ...

Japan will begin releasing a second batch of waste water from the crippled Fukushima nuclear plant ... of waste water that has collected since a tsunami crippled the facility in 2011.

December 26, 2024, marks the 20th year since the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami. The tsunami generated ... and resulted in the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant accident.