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Japan Times
Reference / Q&A
Jul 31, 2013
Tepco trying to keep radioactive water from reaching sea, but can it?
Although Tepco assures that it is taking and planning steps to prevent more tainted groundwater from reaching the sea, it's unclear how effective those efforts are.
EDITORIALS
Jul 31, 2013
Yet more Tepco incompetence
Tepco's late admission that radioactive groundwater from the stricken Fukushima nuclear power plant is leaking into the ocean raises questions about its abilities.
BUSINESS / Companies
Jul 31, 2013
Tepco logs ¥437.9 billion April-June net profit
Tokyo Electric Power Co. reported Wednesday a group net profit of ¥437.93 billion for the April-June quarter, but fuel costs for thermal power generation to make up for the loss of atomic energy due to the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear plant catastrophe that started in 2011 continued to weigh heavily...
BUSINESS / Companies
Jul 31, 2013
Ailing utility resumes offering jobs to new graduates for first time since 2011
Tokyo Electric Power Co. has resumed offering jobs to prospective graduates for the first time since the Fukushima nuclear crisis started in March 2011.
JAPAN
Jul 27, 2013
Fukushima trench water crisis returns
Tokyo Electric Power Co. said Saturday that the trench problem at the crippled Fukushima No. 1 nuclear plant has cropped up again and is sending highly radioactive water into the sea.
JAPAN
Jul 26, 2013
Tepco chief admits PR fiasco over water info
Tokyo Electric Power Co. waited too long to announce that radioactive groundwater from Fukushima No. 1 is reaching the Pacific Ocean, President Naomi Hirose admitted Friday.
COMMENTARY / Japan
Jul 26, 2013
Time to take over Daiichi?
Rather than rely on Tepco and a bare bones staff of regulators, it's time that the Japanese government consider taking control of the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear plant.
JAPAN
Jul 24, 2013
Tepco held back groundwater news
Tokyo Electric Power Co.'s admission that radioactive groundwater from under the disaster-struck Fukushima No. 1 nuclear plant has reached the Pacific Ocean came about a month after the problem was confirmed.
JAPAN
Jul 19, 2013
Nearly 2,000 at Fukushima No. 1 face higher thyroid cancer risk
Tokyo Electric Power Co. says 1,973 workers at its Fukushima No. 1 nuclear plant have estimated thyroid radiation doses exceeding 100 millisieverts and are therefore at higher risk of getting thyroid cancer.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
Jul 16, 2013
Kan sues Abe for 3/11 defamation
Former Prime Minister Naoto Kan sues Prime Minister Shinzo Abe for defamation, saying he has no grounds to accuse him of mismanaging the disaster at the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear plant.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Jul 10, 2013
Toxic groundwater reaching sea: NRA
The Nuclear Regulation Authority says it strongly suspects highly radioactive water at the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant is seeping into the ground and contaminating the Pacific
Japan Times
JAPAN
Jul 5, 2013
Tepco chief gets cool reception in Niigata
Niigata Gov. Hirohiko Izumida declines to give his consent to Tepco's plan to restart two of the seven reactors at the world's largest nuclear power plant.
EDITORIALS
Jul 5, 2013
Irrational reactor restart plan
Tokyo Electric Power Co. appears to be using the threat of rate hikes to win public support for restarting two reactors at a nuclear power plant in Niigata Prefecture.
JAPAN
Jul 3, 2013
Tepco to seek Niigata reactor restarts
Tokyo Electric Power says it will file a request with the Nuclear Regulation Authority to restart two idled reactors in Niigata Prefecture after new safety regulations take effect next Monday.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Companies
Jun 27, 2013
Reactor operators face shareholders
Utilities, struggling amid the prolonged halt of nearly all of the nation's nuclear reactors, express eagerness to restart their facilities during shareholders' meetings, shrugging off proposals from some stockholders to halt the country's reliance on atomic power.
JAPAN
Jun 25, 2013
Level of radioactive tritium rising in harbor at Fukushima plant
Tokyo Electric Power Co. has seen a rise in the level of radioactive tritium in seawater within the harbor at the crippled Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant.
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
Jun 23, 2013
Tepco seeks dismissal of damages suit filed in U.S.
Kyodo
JAPAN
Jun 21, 2013
360 liters of radioactive water leaks from Fukushima No. 1
An estimated 360 liters of radioactive water has leaked from a desalination unit at the ruined Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant, Tokyo Electric Power Co. said Friday.
JAPAN
Jun 20, 2013
Strontium in groundwater at No. 1 soars
Groundwater contaminated with highly radioactive substances is detected from a monitoring well just 27 meters from the seashore within the compound of the crippled Fukushima No. 1 nuclear plant.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Companies
Jun 19, 2013
Tepco minutes reveal staff exodus concerns
Tokyo Electric Power Co. executives spent dozens of meetings fretting about the utility's future as hundreds of younger employees quit over salary cuts after the Fukushima No. 1 reactor meltdowns, according to minutes obtained by Bloomberg News.
Japan's population continues to fall even as foreign resident count rises
The number of residents in Tokyo as of Jan. 1 rose by 0.03% from a year before, data shows, marking a year-on-year increase for the first time in three years, while the country's other 46 prefectures saw their populations continue to decline.
Ahead of the Olympics, Japan is still talking about the gymnast who won't be there
Japan's Shoko Miyata withdrew from the gymnastics team herself over her drinking and smoking, although it had already appeared as though the association was prepared to send her home from the team’s training camp in Monaco.
Japan’s minimum wage set for record ¥50 hike in major boost
Demonstrators rally to demand a big hike in minimum wages in Tokyo last week.
One dead, three missing as heavy rain batters Tohoku
Camera footage shows the Mogami River bursting its banks in Tozawa, Yamagata Prefecture, on Friday morning.
Brazil issues apology for persecuting Japan immigrants during WWII
Enea Almeida (right), chair of the Brazilian amnesty commission, shakes hands with the representative for Japanese immigrants on Thursday in Brasilia.
When did summer in Japan stop being fun?
Summer in Japan is now consistently brutal enough to drive you indoors and keep you there until autumn.
Japan’s minimum wage set for record ¥50 hike in major boost
Demonstrators rally to demand a big hike in minimum wages in Tokyo last week.
Japan loses top spot on strongest passport list to Singapore
Japan had the strongest passport for six years running from 2018, before being dethroned by Singapore on the 2024 list.
Why Japan's mysterious stash of classified funds escapes scrutiny
Prime Minister Fumio Kishida and Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshimasa Hayashi (right) during a meeting in Tokyo on Tuesday.
Japan eyes gold — and the future — as Olympic men's soccer campaign begins
Japan midfielder Yu Hirakawa controls the ball during a match against the United States in Kansas City, Kansas, on June 11.

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