Tokyo Electric Power Co. started work Aug. 4 on construction of facilities to release treated radioactive water into the sea from its crippled Fukushima No. 1 nuclear plant in northeastern Japan.
The Chiba District Court has sentenced a 49-year-old man to 21 years in prison for fatally stabbing his 32-year-old wife in 2020, even though her body has never been found. In handing down the ruling against Akira Ono, who lived in Tsukuba, Ibaraki Prefecture, Presiding Judge Yoshihisa Nakao said that…