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
Explore Fukushima's Nuclear Zone in Google's Startling Street View
The 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake
Plants Are Taking Over Japan's Nuclear Wasteland
It's been well over a year since the earthquake
A Year After Fukushima, This Japanese Cell Phone Will Detect Radiation
And now here's a cell phone that might make things better—or worse.
Fukushima Ghost Towns
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
