A panel of experts has urged the Japanese government and Tokyo Electric Power Company to seek more information about how the 2011 accident at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant occurred.
The panel on Monday submitted a report on its investigation into the accident to the governor of Niigata Prefecture, which is adjacent to Fukushima Prefecture and hosts TEPCO's Kashiwazaki-Kariwa nuclear plant.
The first public museum which seeks to pass along the legacies of the 2011 nuclear accident opens on Sunday in Fukushima Prefecture, northeastern Japan.
The Great East Japan Earthquake and Nuclear Disaster Memorial Museum is located in Futaba Town, where an evacuation advisory was partially lifted in March.
NHK has learned that the US military in Okinawa, southwestern Japan, says a barbecue party in an aircraft hangar led to a large release of fire extinguishing agent. It spread to communities around the US Marine Corps Futenma Air Station in April.
Sources say the military on Friday explained the results of its investigation to local officials from Ginowan City, and others.
Saturday marked the 15th anniversary of the deadly train accident that killed 107 people in the western Japanese city of Amagasaki, Hyogo Prefecture.
This year the annual memorial service was cancelled due to the coronavirus outbreak, but bereaved families still mourned the victims at the accident site and in their homes.
Japanese transportation officials say that a defective installation of a cable led to an accident involving a driverless train that went in the wrong direction.
The Japan Transport Safety Board on Thursday released intermediate findings from its investigation into last year's incident on the Yokohama Seaside Line in Yokohama, near Tokyo. Seventeen passengers were injured and the operator later found a broken circuit linked to the directional control system.
Japanese badminton star Kento Momota has been given the all clear in a health checkup after being involved in a car accident in Malaysia.
Momota's club, NTT East, said on Friday that medical exams concluded that he did not have broken bones or internal organ damage.