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Students Return to School in Japan's Disaster Zone

KESENNUMA, Japan -- In the gray of early morning, plastic curtains are pulled back from the school gym's windows and 260 evacuees sleeping on blankets stir to life under basketball hoops. For 13-year-old Yuka Chiba, it's the first day of eighth grade. Yuka hasn't been at school since the March 11 earthquake and tsunami...

Japan's Fukushima Dai-ichi Plant Outlines Shutdown Plan [VIDEO]

Japan Emperor Makes First Trip to Disaster Zone

TOKYO -- Japan's revered emperor made his first trip Thursday to the disaster zone since the March 11 earthquake and tsunami destroyed much of the northeast coast and set off a crisis of radiation leaks at a flooded nuclear plant. Emperor Akihito and Empress Michiko visited two evacuation shelters Thursday in Asahi city,...

Japan Equates Nuclear Crisis Severity to Chernobyl

TOKYO -- Japan ranked its nuclear crisis at the highest possible severity on an international scale - the same level as the 1986 Chernobyl disaster - even as it insisted Tuesday that radiation leaks are declining at its tsunami-crippled nuclear plant. The higher rating is an open acknowledgement of what was widely...

Japan Nuclear Plant Plugs Highly Radioactive Leak

TOKYO -- Workers at Japan's tsunami-damaged nuclear power plant on Wednesday finally stemmed a tide of radiation that was pouring into the Pacific and exacerbating concerns over the safety of seafood. High levels of contamination have been measured at the shoreline of the Fukushima Dai-ichi complex in recent days,...

Background on japan disaster

The , also known as the 2011 Tohoku earthquake, the Great East Japan Earthquake, and the 3.11 Earthquake, was a magnitude 9.0 (Mw) undersea megathrust earthquake off the coast of Japan that occurred at 14:46 JST (05:46 UTC) on Friday, 11 March 2011, with the epicenter approximately east of the Oshika Peninsula of Tōhoku and the hypocenter at an underwater depth of approximately .

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