Tokyo, April 6 (IANS) The operator of Japan’s Fukushima Daini Nuclear Power Plant, a facility currently being decommissioned, has said it suspended cooling of a spent fuel pool after a pump malfunction triggered an alert. Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings (TEPCO) said an alarm for the spent fuel pool of the plant’s No. 1 reactor went off at around 2:45 p.m. local time on Sunday. Workers shut down the pump after smoke was detected at the site, halting the pool’s cooling system, reports Xinhua…
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Tokyo, Feb 8 (IANS) Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi’s Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) is set to win a comfortable majority on its own, and may even clinch a two-thirds majority with allies, in the snap elections held on Sunday, as per exit polls in the Japanese media.An exit poll by public broadcaster NHK showed that the LDP is on course to win 274 to 328 of the 465 seats in the powerful lower house of parliament, well above the 233 needed for a majority.Together with its coalition partn…
Nara, Jan 13 (IANS) South Korean President Lee Jae Myung arrived in Japan on Tuesday for summit talks with Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi, with the two leaders expected to discuss bilateral ties, as well as regional and global issues, amid tensions between Tokyo and Beijing.Lee will stay in Nara Prefecture, Takaichi’s home prefecture, for two days as part of reciprocal leader-level visits dubbed ‘shuttle diplomacy,’ aimed at sustaining the recent momentum in improved relations.It will ma…
Tokyo, Jan 6 (IANS) Several people have been injured after a 6.4-magnitude earthquake struck Shimane Prefecture in western Japan on Tuesday, local media reported. The temblor occurred at 10:18 a.m. local time in eastern Shimane Prefecture at a depth of about 10 kilometres, measuring upper 5 on Japan’s seismic scale of 7 in the hardest-hit areas in Shimane and Tottori prefectures, said the Japan Meteorological Agency (JMA).The quake’s epicentre was located at a latitude of 35.3 degrees north and …
Tokyo, Dec 29 (IANS) A five-year-old boy died after his right arm was caught in a travelator at a ski resort in Japan’s northern prefecture of Hokkaido, local authorities said.The accident occurred at the Asarigawa Onsen Ski Resort in Otaru on Sunday morning (local time), when the boy became trapped in a moving walkway connecting the parking area to the ski slope. His mother called emergency services to report the incident, reports Xinhua, quoting Kyodo News Agency.The boy, a resident of Sapporo…