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. » 8/26/14 4:00am 8/26/14 4:00am

A famous Japanese food manga takes on the "truth about Fukushima." » 5/08/14 8:00am 5/08/14 8:00am

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. » 3/26/14 3:18pm 3/26/14 3:18pm

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. » 8/21/13 7:15am 8/21/13 7:15am

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.

And now here's a cell phone that might make things better—or worse. » 5/29/12 4:15am 5/29/12 4:15am

On March 11 » 2/15/12 7:55am 2/15/12 7:55am, a devastating earthquake and tsunami rocked Japan. In its wake, the country's Northeast was ravaged. Buildings and lives were destroyed and lost.

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. » 5/11/11 7:30pm 5/11/11 7:30pm

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. » 4/11/11 9:05pm 4/11/11 9:05pm

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] » 3/15/11 1:27pm 3/15/11 1:27pm