FUKUSHIMA Bullet train services resumed between Tokyo and Fukushima in northeastern Japan on April 2 for the first time since a powerful earthquake off the coast of Fukushima Prefecture last month disrupted runs on the Tohoku Shinkansen Line.
SENDAI On a chilly night in early February, Masatoshi Suzuki hauled a black plastic bag containing four macaque carcasses into his lab at Tohoku University.
FUKUSHIMA A sign along the Manogawa river that runs through Minami-Soma, Fukushima Prefecture, is faded, but the message is clear and perhaps unnecessary.
Shovel loaders digging pits at the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant on Jan. 17 were a rare sign of progress in the government’s contentious water-discharge plan at the stricken site.
FUTABA, Fukushima Prefecture More than a decade after the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant accident, evacuees such as Yoichi Yatsuda were finally allowed to stay overnight in their homes here again.