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Japan

  • 20 Feb 2014

    Highly radioactive water leaks from Japan’s Fukushima plant

    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.

  • 9 Jan 2014

    Japan chemical plant blast: ‘five dead’

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

  • 20 Dec 2013
    48 years

    Kirobo’s first space chat: I want a toy rocket

    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”.

  • 17 Dec 2013

    Could British drones help with Fukushima clean-up?

    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.

  • 21 Nov 2013

    Bringing space down to earth: 15 years of the ISS

    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.

  • 21 Nov 2013
    48 years

    Volcanic eruption forms new Japanese island

    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.

  • 18 Nov 2013

    First day of risky fuel removal at Fukushima a ‘success’

    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.

  • 14 Nov 2013

    Part of Fukushima plant secured by duct tape, worker claims

    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.

  • 5 Nov 2013

    Fukushima and Iwaki reconstruction: eyewitness report

    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.

  • 25 Oct 2013
    Alex Thomson

    Japan’s Fukushima plant undamaged after quake

    Japan’s emergency agencies declare a tsunami warning as the US Geological Survery reports a magnitude 7.3 earthquake off Japan’s east coast.

  • 16 Oct 2013
    48 years

    Typhoon Wipha kills at least 13 in Japan

    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.

  • 16 Oct 2013

    Typhoon Wipha leaves 17 dead in Japan

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

  • 15 Oct 2013

    Fukushima: why next month is its biggest since 2011

    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?

  • 14 Oct 2013

    What is happening at Fukushima?

    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?

  • 16 Sep 2013
    48 years

    Powerful storm leaves two dead in Japan

    Tropical Storm Man-yi lashed Japan with 100mph winds on Monday, leaving two dead and dozens injured. Torrential rain caused flooding that left homes damaged and many roads impassable.

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