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Taiwan eyes opportunity to leapfrog China in race to join trade pact

TAIPEI -- Taiwan President Tsai Ing-wen's decision to lift the ban on imports of food products from Fukushima and four other prefectures appears to be aimed at getting ahead of China in procedures to join the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP). China applied to join the pact…

The Japan News/Yomiuri · Feb 10, 2022

LDP resolution condemns 5 ex-prime ministers for spreading false information

The Liberal Democratic Party has approved a resolution condemning five former prime ministers, including Junichiro Koizumi, for disseminating false information regarding the accident at Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings Inc.'s Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant.

The Japan News/Yomiuri · Feb 9, 2022

Fukushima operators send robot into worst-hit melted reactor

A remote-controlled robot is being used to probe the hardest-hit nuclear reactor at Japan’s wrecked Fukushima plant, as officials push forward with clean-up operations that have been mired in delays

The Independent UK · Feb 8, 2022

Japan's Tepco hit by setback in clean-up of crippled Fukushima nuclear plant

The operator of Japan's crippled Fukushima nuclear power plant has found that a coolant solution, used to create an ice wall halting the seepage of groundwater into reactor buildings, has leaked from two storage tanks.

Reuters · Jan 23, 2022

Several return to live in Fukushima's last deserted town

Several former residents of Futaba, the only remaining uninhabited town in Japan still recovering from effects of radiation from nuclear plant meltdowns in 2011, have returned to live for the first time since the massive earthquake and tsunami forced them out

The Independent UK · Jan 21, 2022