Yoko Kubota Author

The high level of radiation in water flooding the basement at Japan’s Fukushima Daiichi plant is probably due to a partial melting of fuel rods.

Japan on Monday freed the crew of a Chinese fishing boat held in disputed waters, but held on to the captain at the centre of a territorial rift.

A tiny tsunami hit an island south of Tokyo on Sunday after warnings that waves of more than three metres could batter Japan’s Pacific coast.