We'll Always Be Able to Catch Pokémon at Fukushima
Pokémon Go is everywhere, and for some, that’s a problem.
Legendary Game Creator Attacked on Twitter over Fukushima Peaches
Earthbound designer Shigesato Itoi sent out a fairly simple tweet: "If you go to Fukushima, you can buy peaches like this." The remarks were accompanied by the above photo. Online, some people got pissed.
Japanese Manga Stirs Up Fukushima Nuclear Controversy
A famous Japanese food manga takes on the "truth about Fukushima."
10 Of The World's Most Dangerous Toxic Ghost Towns
Visiting abandoned towns can be hazardous for a number of reasons, including crumbling structures and guards who will shoot trespassers on sight. But some ghost towns have toxic legacies due to chemicals, radiation, or even biological weapons.
Japan's Most Unusual Bullet Train Has Foot Baths
This is the future of Japanese train travel. And boy, it doesn't get much faster—or interesting—than this.
Japan Gets Anti-Radiation Swimwear and Underwear
Radiation is serious—especially in Japan. With the country still dealing with a nuclear disaster, people need to protect themselves.
Fukushima's Radioactive Puddles Are More Serious Than Anticipated
Japan's nuclear agency wants to raise the severity level of the new radioactive water leak at the Fukushima because the problem is more serious than initially expected.
Explore Fukushima's Nuclear Zone in Google's Startling Street View
The 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake devastated the town of Namie in Fukushima. The surviving residents still cannot return to their homes. The area has been evacuated due to radiation.
Plants Are Taking Over Japan's Nuclear Wasteland
It's been well over a year since the earthquake and ensuing Fukushima nuclear disaster took place. The crisis is not over, and people living near the reactors have been cleared out. They are yet to return. In their place, the plants are taking over.
A Year After Fukushima, This Japanese Cell Phone Will Detect Radiation
It's been over a year since the Fukushima meltdown. There have been radiation fears and fear mongering. Both have certainly impacted the lives and psyche of those living in Fukushima as well as people elsewhere.
Fukushima Ghost Towns
On March 11, a devastating earthquake and tsunami rocked Japan. In its wake, the country's Northeast was ravaged. Buildings and lives were destroyed and lost.
Fallout-Themed Geiger Counter Monitors Japan's Transpacific Radiation
A Seattle-area man who lived in Europe during the Chernobyl disaster, now wary of radiation from Japan's Fukushima nuclear accidents traversing the Pacific, built that, the a Fallout-themed case for a Geiger counter that reports its findings automatically via Twitter.
Japanese Nuclear Crisis Upgraded to Chernobyl Level
The badly damaged Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant has been upgraded from 5 to 7 on the International Nuclear and Radiological Event Scale. That's, in case you were wondering, out of seven—the only other nuclear crisis to reach the same level is Chernobyl.
Japan Hit by Second Major Quake (Updated)
A second earthquake—magnitude 7.4—has hit northeastern Japan, prompting a tsunami warning. The quake, strong enough to move buildings in Tokyo, hit 78 miles north of the devastated Fukushima plant at 11:32 pm, local time.
The Strange Link Between Samurai Swords and Japan’s Nuclear Reactors
As fears rise in Japan about nuclear disaster at the Fukushima plant, the first and best line of defense are the reactor's six inch thick steel-walled chambers, made by a company that still forges samurai swords by hand. [Jalopnik]
