Fukushima disaster

Japan restarted on Tuesday its first nuclear reactor since the Fukushima disaster, which took place in 2011.

All nuclear power plants in Japan were gradually turned off after a series of meltdowns at Fukushima caused by the powerful earthquake and resulting tsunami in 2011.

Traces of radioactivity originating from the damaged Fukushima nuclear power plant in 2011 have been detected in a seawater sample collected near Canada's west coast, according to a radiation monitoring group.
      

Japanese writer Haruki Murakami has chided his country for shirking responsibility for its World War II aggression and the Fukushima nuclear disaster in an interview published Nov. 3.

Speaking to the Mainichi Shimbun newspaper, the 65-year-old author said: "No one has taken real responsibility for the 1945 war end or the 2011 Fukushima Daiichi nuclear accident. I feel so."