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U.S. Coast Guard to sink Japanese boat washed away by tsunami
The U.S. Coast Guard has deployed a ship to sink a fishing trawler that was swept away more than a year ago by the tsunami off the coast of Japan and is now adrift near Alaska. The crew of the coast...
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Soccer ball washed up in Alaska traced to tsunami-hit area of Japan
A soccer ball recently found washed up on a remote Alaskan beach apparently belongs to a teenager from a city devastated by the earthquake and tsunami that struck Japan more than a year ago. And it may...
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Japanese man claims motorcycle that washed up in Canada
A Harley-Davidson motorcycle believed to have traversed the Pacific Ocean to western Canada after being swept from coastal Japan during a March 2011 tsunami has been claimed by a Japanese man. Ikuo...
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Evacuee's suicide sad reminder how Fukushima continues to claim victims
A 62-year-old evacuee from Fukushima Prefecture made a brief visit to his radiation-contaminated home, walked to his shuttered shop, and then hanged himself in a storage space. The death is yet another...
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Fukushima plant operator: We weren't prepared for the nuclear acccident
The operator of Japan's crippled Fukushima Daiichi power plant admitted Wednesday that it was not fully prepared for the nuclear accident spurred by last year's devastating earthquake and tsunami. "All...
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Japan again getting electricity from nuclear energy
Japan was once again getting electricity from nuclear power on Thursday after two months as a nuclear-free nation. Unit No. 3 at Kansai Electric Power Co. Ohi nuclear plant began generating power at 7...
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New report criticizes TEPCO over Fukushima nuclear crisis
A Japanese government report Monday heaped fresh criticism on the operator of the nuclear power plant where a disastrous accident was set off last year by the devastating earthquake and tsunami that...
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Mutant butterflies a result of Fukushima nuclear disaster, researchers say
In the first sign that the Fukushima nuclear disaster may be changing life around it, scientists say they've found mutant butterflies. Some of the butterflies had abnormalities in their legs, antennae,...
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Record radiation found in fish near Fukushima plant
Radioactive cesium measuring 258 times the amount that Japan's government deems safe for consumption has been found in fish near the damaged Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, Japan's Kyodo news...
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Report: Fukushima's health impact limited
The lifetime risk of contracting certain types of cancer rose only slightly for a small group of people, due to exposure to radiation from the Fukushima nuclear disaster, the World Health Organization...
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