The governor of Miyagi Prefecture, Yoshihiro Murai, says he will make a comprehensive decision on the restart of a nuclear reactor in the prefecture.
The Nuclear Regulation Authority approved a draft assessment of the No.2 reactor at the Onagawa plant on Wednesday, clearing a major hurdle to getting back online.
Construction of temporary housing units for people who lost their homes in Typhoon Hagibis has begun in Marumori Town, Miyagi Prefecture in northeastern Japan.
More than 180 people are still living in shelters across the town. Most have been unable to even start planning how to rebuild their homes.
A strong earthquake rocked Japan's northeastern prefectures of Fukushima and Miyagi on Sunday.
The Japan Meteorological Agency says the quake registered 5 minus on the country's seismic intensity scale of zero to seven.
A strong earthquake has rocked Japan's northeastern prefectures of Fukushima and Miyagi. There is no threat of tsunami.
The Meteorological Agency says the quake with a magnitude of 6.4 struck at 7:23 p.m. on Sunday. It says the focus of the quake was about 45 kilometers deep off the coast of Fukushima Prefecture.
A strong earthquake has rocked Japan's northeastern prefectures of Fukushima and Miyagi. There is no threat of tsunami.
The Meteorological Agency says the quake with a preliminary magnitude of 6.2 struck at 7:23 p.m. on Sunday. It says the focus of the quake was about 50 kilometers deep off the coast of Fukushima Prefecture.
A strong earthquake rocked Japan's northeastern prefectures of Fukushima and Miyagi on Sunday.
The Japan Meteorological Agency says the quake registered 5 minus on the country's seismic intensity scale of zero to seven.
People in Miyagi Prefecture, northeastern Japan are celebrating the re-opening of a daycare center for children that was destroyed by the 2011 tsunami.
On Sunday, former and current staff members, and local residents attended a ceremony to mark the finish of the new facility's construction in the Yuriage district of the coastal city of Natori.
High school students from northeastern Japan have taken part in a performance of Mozart's Requiem in New York City to remember the victims of the 2011 earthquake and tsunami.
The 27 Japanese students performed at Lincoln Center on Saturday. They are from Miyagi Prefecture, which was severely affected by the disaster.
Arashi will release their concert "ARASHI BLAST in Miyagi", which was held in September at Hitomebore Stadium Miyagi, on DVD and Blu-ray on New Year's Day. 
People carry a "mikoshi" portable shrine during a summer festival at Chokaishio Shrine in Watari, Miyagi Prefecture, on June 7, 2015. 
About 500 people have gathered to celebrate the opening of a peace park in northern Japan. The 12-hectare park commemorates US crew members of B-29 bombers that crashed in the mountains in the last days of World War Two. 
After a more than four-year wait, the tsunami-hit JR Senseki Line in Miyagi Prefecture resumed full operation on May 30, and local residents were out in force to mark the occasion.
Purple sea bells are making a comeback on Nobiru beach here after the 2011 tsunami wiped out nearly all of the flowering bindweeds.
The tsunami-hit JR Senseki Line is gearing up to resume full operations next month after a trial run was held April 21 on a previously damaged section of track.