Japan

A Briton who has been protesting at Mt. Gox, fearing he may have lost bitcoins worth hundreds of thousands of dollars held at the exchange, tells Channel 4 News the industry needs more regulation.

Around 100 tonnes of highly radioactive water leaks from a tank in Japan’s Fukushima nuclear plant, in the worst incident of its kind since August 2013.

Five people die and 17 others are injured in an explosion at a chemicals plant in Japan.

Japan’s first robot astronaut, Kirobo, in his first ever space chat with astronaut Koichi Wakata says he wants a toy rocket for Christmas and zero-gravity is “no problem at all”.

Parts of Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear plant, which was devastated by the 2011 earthquake and tsunami, are still too dangerous for humans to enter. But not, perhaps, for drones.

A volcanic eruption off the coast of Japan forms a new island, experts and the Japanese coast guard say, in the first time volcanoes are known to have erupted in the area since the mid-1970s.

Fifteen years ago the first module of the international space station was launched on board a Russian rocket. Channel 4 News explores how the ISS has opened the mysteries of space up to the world.

It was seen as the riskiest operation at Japan’s stricken Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant since the March 2011 tsunami – but the plant’s operator says the first fuel removals have begun safely.

As Tepco opens up to the world about a dangerous operation coming up at the stricken Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear plant, we speak to a former worker who says his legs shook as he did his work.

British architect Garry Thomas visited Iwaki, near the damaged Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear plant, recently. He found a place barely reconstructed, and residents losing hope.

At least 13 people are killed after a powerful typhoon passed close to Tokyo. Typhoon Wipha caused landslides and flooding on Izu Oshima island, south of Tokyo.

Typhoon Wipha brushed along the southern side of Japan on Wednesday, causing mudslides and flooding that left 17 people dead and 50 missing.

The headlines are alarming: vast leaks of radioactive water, international experts being drafted in and spikes in radiation levels. But how bad is the situation at Japan’s Fukushima nuclear plant?

The world is responding to Japan’s call for help at the stricken Fukushima nuclear plant. But with reports of leaks, contamination and a risky new operation, Channel 4 News asks: is it too late?