Trump Administration Sues Michigan to Halt State’s Fossil Fuel Lawsuit Plan May 1, 2025 By Sakura Murakami and Bob Van Voris The Trump administration sued Michigan and Hawaii seeking to block the states from suing oil companies for damage caused by...
TEPCO Says Seawater Radioactivity Below Detectable Limits After Fukushima Release August 28, 2023 By Sakura Murakami and Kantaro Komiya Initial tests showed seawater radioactivity to be below detectable levels after the release of treated radioactive water from Japan’s Fukushima...
Japan to Release Water Into Sea From Fukushima Nuclear Power Plant on Aug. 24 August 22, 2023 By Sakura Murakami and Tom Bateman Japan said on Tuesday it will start releasing into the sea more than 1 million metric tons of treated radioactive...
Japan’s Fukushima Farmers Fear Contaminated Water Release Will Hit Produce Prices November 5, 2021 By Sakura Murakami IWAKI, Japan – Farmers in Japan’s northeastern Fukushima fear the release of water from the crippled power plant there could...
Banning Spectators Is ‘Least Risky’ Option for Tokyo 2020 Games: Medical Experts June 18, 2021 By Sakura Murakami, Rocky Swift and Linda Sieg TOKYO – Japanese medical experts said on Friday that banning spectators at the Olympics was the least risky option for...
Olympic Officials Unveil Rules on Masks, Singing, Transport for COVID-19 Games February 3, 2021 By Jack Tarrant and Sakura Murakami Olympic officials on Wednesday unveiled the first of many COVID-19 rules for the Tokyo Games this summer, banning singing and...
Tokyo Games Delayed to 2021 in 1st Postponement in Olympics’ 124-Year History March 24, 2020 By Sakura Murakami and Karolos Grohmann The Tokyo Olympics were postponed on Tuesday into 2021, the first such delay in the Games’ 124-year modern history, as...