Mari Yamaguchi

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Japan's Education, Culture, Sports and Science Minister Hakubun Shimomura announces the revision of official teaching manuals to emphasize Japan's territorial rights to the islands disputed with China and South Korea, at Education Ministry in Tokyo Tuesday, Jan. 28, 2014. The Education Ministry says Tuesday's decision is to reflect the government's official view on the territorial claims. (AP Phoro/Kyodo News) JAPAN OUT, MANDATORY CREDIT

Japan to teach territorial claims in schools

Mari Yamaguchi · January 28, 2014 9:27 am

In this photo taken on Saturday, Jan. 25, 2014, Katsuto Momii, new president of public broadcaster NHK, holds a news conference at the start of his three-year term in Tokyo. Japan's top government spokesman Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga defended Momii for his remarks that the use of women as military prostitutes was common worldwide during World War II. NHK chairman Momii told a news conference Saturday to mark his appointment that "comfort women" existed in any country at war, not just Japan. (AP Photo/Kyodo News) JAPAN OUT, MANDATORY CREDIT

Japan NHK boss under fire for comfort women remark

Mari Yamaguchi · January 27, 2014 7:59 am

Tokyo governor poll a referendum over nuke policy

Mari Yamaguchi · January 21, 2014 9:54 am

A Tokyo Electric Power Co. employee wearing a protective suit and a mask walks past storage tanks for radioactive water in the H4 area at the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant in Okuma, Fukushima, northeastern Japan, Thursday, Nov. 7, 2013. The plant has recently had a series of mishaps, including leaks of radioactive water from storage tanks. The incidents, many of them caused by human error, have added to concerns about TEPCO's ability to safely close down the plant, which suffered multiple meltdowns after being hit by a March 2011 earthquake and tsunami. (AP Photo/Tomohiro Ohsumi, Pool)

Energy and Environment

Top US nuclear regulator urges storage solution

Mari Yamaguchi · December 6, 2013 5:00 am

US Secretary of Energy Ernest Moniz will work with Tokyo Election Power Co. in the decommissioning of Japan's crippled nuclear power plant and in dealing with contaminated water problems. (AP/Hans Punz)

Energy and Environment

TEPCO, US to cooperate in Japan nuke plant cleanup

Mari Yamaguchi · November 1, 2013 4:00 am

Japan nuclear plant probes leak from new tank

Mari Yamaguchi · June 6, 2013 2:47 pm

Japan watchdog: Nuclear plant sits on active fault

Mari Yamaguchi · May 22, 2013 11:18 am

Japan pulls back on denials of WWII sex slavery

Mari Yamaguchi · May 8, 2013 12:33 pm

IAEA reviewing cleanup at damaged Japan nuke plant

Mari Yamaguchi · April 15, 2013 7:00 am

More radioactive water leaking at Japan nuke plant

Mari Yamaguchi · April 9, 2013 2:13 pm

FILE - In this Dec. 29, 2012 file photo, the Unit 1 reactor building, left, and Unit 2 of the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant are seen through a bus window in Okuma, Fukushima Prefecture, northeastern Japan. Tokyo Electric Power Co. acknowledged in a report Friday that it was not prepared to deal with the earthquake and tsunami that ravaged northeast Japan in March 2011, causing triple-meltdowns at its Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear plant. (AP Photo/Itsuo Inouye, Pool, File)

Japanese utility takes blame for nuclear crisis

Mari Yamaguchi · April 3, 2013 4:00 am

Japanese regulators to investigate nuclear crisis

Mari Yamaguchi · March 27, 2013 1:53 pm