A Google Street View car has been allowed into an abandoned town in the Fukushima exclusion zone. The images allow a "virtual homecoming" to the town for the 21,000 residents displaced by the tsunami and nuclear meltdown two years ago.

March 11th marks two years since Japan's devastating triple disaster of a massive earthquake, tsunami, and nuclear meltdown that left 20,000 people dead or missing. LinkAsia's Toshi Maeda reports from Tokyo on how people in Japan are coping today ...

Japanese horror film director Hideo Nakata is best known for films in which characters are killed by an unseen force or haunted by a creepy presence. His newest film takes a different form however. LinkAsia's Nathalie Stucky reports on Nakata's la...

Two years after the triple calamities of earthquake, tsunami and nuclear disaster ravaged Japan's northeastern Pacific coast, forests that cover 70 percent of the Fukushima Prefecture have been found to contain high concentrations of radioactive c...

Japan is recognized around the world for its cutting-edge robotics, but over a year and a half after the Fukushima disaster Japanese robot makers are still struggling to develop robots capable of dealing with the crippled nuclear power plant.

A 7.3 magnitude quake struck off northeast Japan Friday, shaking buildings as far away as Tokyo for more than a minute and triggering a tsunami alert in Fukushima and other areas devastated by last year's disaster. Two people were badly injured bu...

The company that operated Japan's Fukushima nuclear plant has admitted that it played down safety concerns before the March 2011 Tsunami. The announcement on Friday is the first time the company has acknowledged that the meltdown of three reactor...

At the company's annual shareholders' meeting, TEPCO announced the resignation of 20 executives from the Fukushima nuclear power plant. The electric power company is facing a 67 billion yen compensation claim for the 2011 disaster.

Tomioka was once home to 16,000 people, but now only Naoto Matsumura remains. The town lies inside the exclusion zone set up around the stricken Fukushima nuclear reactor after last year's devastating tsunami. Without electricity and running wa...

To mark the one-year anniversary of the devastating triple disaster in Japan, LinkAsia presents an excerpt from the upcoming film "Stories from Tohoku: With Heart and Hope," directed by LinkAsia Consulting Producer Dianne Fukami. The film looks at...