Australia, Canada and Singapore joined a list of countries shunning Japanese food imports as radioactive steam wafted anew from a nuclear plant.
Tokyo warned on Wednesday that radioactive iodine over twice the safe level for infants had been detected in its tap water.
Japan estimated the cost of the damage from its devastating earthquake and tsunami could top $300-billion.
The United States became the first nation to block produce from ally Japan’s radiation zone, saying it will halt milk, vegetable and fruit imports.
When the tsunami smacked into Fukushima Daiichi, the nuclear power plant was stacked high with more uranium than it was originally designed to hold.
Smoke and steam rose from two of the most threatening reactors at Japan’s quake-crippled nuclear plant on Tuesday.
Japan hoped power restored to its stricken nuclear plant may help solve the world’s worst atomic crisis in 25 years.
Japan made some progress to avert disaster at a tsunami-damaged power plant, though leaks underlined perils from the worst crisis since Chernobyl.
Japan is considering whether to halt sales of food products from near a crippled nuclear plant because of contamination by a radioactive element.
The nuclear threat makes assessment of the earthquake’s economic impact difficult.
High radiation levels force workers to take shelter and prevent aid from reaching quake survivors.
Far from the cameras, crawling through the wreckage of a nuclear power plant, a faceless battalion is taking on the most dangerous job in Japan.
Japan’s humanitarian crisis has intensified, with relief workers being hampered by freezing temperatures and snowfalls.
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People left behind to fight the nuclear meltdown at Fukushima are anonymous heroes.
Japanese engineers toiled frantically to avert a catastrophic release of radiation from a crippled nuclear power plant north of Tokyo on Friday.
In the aftermath of the earthquake and the tsunami, Japan is facing the most important nuclear accident worldwide since 1986.
Japanese engineers worked through the night to lay a 1,5km electricity cable to a crippled nuclear power plant in the hope of restarting pumps.
Japan may build robots to run marathons and preside over weddings, but it has not deployed any of the machines to help repair its crippled reactors.
All eyes were on Japan this week after the country suffered a triple catastrophe of earthquake, tsunami and nuclear difficulties.
Workers were ordered to withdraw briefly from a stricken Japanese nuclear power plant on Wednesday after radiation levels surged.
Government regulators knew of a heightened risk of explosion in the type of nuclear reactors used at the Fukushima plant in Japan.