A shortage of parts will force Sony to cut production or suspend output at five more plants in Japan following the country’s catastrophic earthquake.
Smoke and steam rose from two of the most threatening reactors at Japan’s quake-crippled nuclear plant on Tuesday.
The WHO said on Monday that radiation in food after an earthquake damaged a Japanese nuclear plant was more serious than previously thought.
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.
Engineers attached a power cable to the outside of Japan’s tsunami-crippled nuclear plant on Saturday in an attempt to get the water pumps going.
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.
An estimated 10 000 people have died in Ishinomaki. <b>Jonathan Watts</b> finds a desperate effort to feed the living as the bodies pile up.
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.
Japanese military helicopters dumped water on an overheating nuclear plant on Thursday while the United States expressed growing alarm.
Concern over Japan’s ability to contain its nuclear crisis grew on Thursday, as military helicopters dumped water on to an overheating power plant.
All eyes were on Japan this week after the country suffered a triple catastrophe of earthquake, tsunami and nuclear difficulties.
The UN atomic energy chief said he plans to fly to Japan on Thursday to seek first-hand information of what he called a "very serious" situation.
Japan’s nuclear crisis deepened on Wednesday with another fire at a quake-hit atomic power plant and a radiation spike.
Workers were ordered to withdraw briefly from a stricken Japanese nuclear power plant on Wednesday after radiation levels surged.
Growing up in this small fishing town on Japan’s north-eastern coast, 16-year-old Minami Sato never took the annual tsunami drills seriously.
Japan faced a potential catastrophe on Tuesday after a nuclear power plant exploded and sent low levels of radiation floating towards Tokyo.
A widening cloud of radiation on Tuesday added to the misery of millions of people in Japan’s devastated north-east.
Technology giants Apple, Google, Facebook and Twitter are offering digital ways to donate to Japan’s recovery efforts after their massive earthquake.
Government regulators knew of a heightened risk of explosion in the type of nuclear reactors used at the Fukushima plant in Japan.
Prices for key technology components spiked as the toll on Japan’s infrastructure mounted after Friday’s devastating earthquake and tsunami.
Japan warned radioactive levels had become "significantly" higher around a nuclear power plant on Tuesday after explosions at two reactors.
Japan scrambled to avert a meltdown at a nuclear plant on Monday after a hydrogen explosion at one reactor and exposure of fuel rods at another.
Shares in Japanese manufacturers tumbled in the aftermath of Friday’s earthquake, as companies struggled to gather information from the stricken area.
Global companies faced disruptions to operations after the earthquake and tsunami in Japan destroyed vital infrastructure.