The disasters at Chernobyl and Fukushima are commonly touted as mere cultural exceptions, either due to Soviet communism or to Japanese “groupism.” Doing so is not only inaccurate or borderline racist ...

When tens of thousands of people fled after the 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake, tsunami and ensuing Fukushima nuclear accident, their cultural traditions left with them.

The Fukushima March 11 Memorial Park was jointly established by the Japanese government and the prefecture in an area ...

Japan's largest nuclear power plant is planning to partially reopen, sparking anxiety in a nation repeatedly traumatized by the technology. The Niigata Prefectural Assembly voted on Monday to resume ...

Visitors flock to barely inhabited towns, attracted for the most part by the very catastrophe that drove their residents away Fifteen years after one of the world's worst nuclear disasters, this part ...

Without narration or music, Toru Yamada's intimate documentary 'At the Triangle Intersection' follows the silences, routines ...

When nuclear accidents happen, many people imagine radiation spreading everywhere and lasting forever. The reality is more complex. Radioactive materials move, change and sometimes disappear faster ...

*HBO Documentary Films has unveiled the official trailer for “Fukushima: A Nuclear Nightmare,” a feature-length documentary examining the aftermath of Japan’s 2011 nuclear disaster. The film is ...

Japan will begin using 6 cubic meters of soil removed during cleanup after the Fukushima nuclear disaster in flowerbeds at the Defens ...

Chernobyl and Fukushima have left a tainted legacy in a no-man’s land between radioactive dirt and an immaculate landscape of state denial, where ‘acceptable risk’ is nothing more than a euphemism for ...