China says it is “shocked” to learn radioactive water is still leaking from the Fukushima nuclear plant, as it is revealed 300 tonnes of contaminated liquid has escaped from a tank.
This was the moment that lightning struck a Tokyo commuter train on Monday. Apparently, no one was hurt in the incident, but the train was taken out of service.
Japanese scientists send a talking robot to keep an astronaut company on the international space station. A foot tall, Kirobo can walk, hold a conversation and has no problem handling zero gravity.
Alex Thomson
A notice at the train station ticket office reads: “Apologies – we will be back soon.” But in the deserted radiation hotspot of Futaba, in post-Fukushima Japan, nobody will be back soon.
Alex Thomson
As Japanese engineers struggle to manage the fallout of the nuclear disaster at Fukushima, the Japanese government struggles to solve the energy crisis that it provoked.
Alex Thomson
Two years after the Fukushima nuclear disaster, 150,000 people are still displaced across Japan and the clean-up is scheduled to last decades. In a land where hope has run out – the hope of return.
Alex Thomson
Two British teachers caught up in the Fukushima nuclear meltdown tell Alex Thomson why they continue to teach their evacuated children, somewhere, somehow.
Japanese coastguard releases stunning footage which it says shows hundreds of dolphins being chased by killer whales in the sea off Nagasaki prefecture.
Quantitative easing has been the emergency medicine keeping economies afloat, but does the fall of the Japanese stock market foreshadow what happens when it ends?
Share prices in Japan slide more than 7 per cent in their worst single day losses for more than two years – triggering slumps in markets around the world.
Minami Minegishi, a pop idol from the Japanese girl band AKB48 has shaved her head as penance for having a boyfriend. Reporter Katie Razzall explores why.
Sony is fined £250,000 by the UK’s data protection watchdog for failing to safeguard the personal details of millions of customers using its PlayStation Network.
Japan’s two leading airlines ground their Boeing 787s fleets after one of the dreamliner passenger jets made an emergency landing, in the latest and most serious of safety scares.
Japan’s next prime minister, Shinzo Abe, restates the country’s claim to uninhabited East China Sea islands – but vows to work to improve relations with China, which disputes Japan’s claim.
A 7.3 magnitude earthquake off the coast of north-eastern Japan shakes buildings as far away as Tokyo but early fears of a tsunami and devastation on the scale of the March 2011 disaster have receded.