As a tsunami ravaged the Japanese fishing town of Onagawa hundreds of residents fled for the safest place they knew: the local nuclear power plant. More than two weeks later 240 remain, watching TV or ...

Five years after the great East Japan earthquake and tsunami, the port of Onagawa has a craft-beer bar, an artisanal coffeehouse, a Spanish-tile factory, and a workshop where electric guitars are ...

On March 11, 2011, the magnitude-9 Great East Japan Earthquake propelled a powerful tsunami through the port of Onagawa, Miyagi Prefecture, claiming 827 lives — nearly 10 percent of the town's ...

Onagawa has recovered relatively quickly from the 2011 tsunami, despite being one of the hardest-hit communities. Journalist Kikuchi Masanori returns to the town to interview Mayor Suda Yoshiaki for ...

ISHINOMAKI, Miyagi Prefecture--The No. 2 reactor at the Onagawa nuclear power plant resumed operations here on Oct. 29, the first reactor damaged in the 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake and tsunami to ...

Tohoku Electric Power Company has received initial regulatory approval to resume operation of unit 2 at its Onagawa plant in Japan's Miyagi Prefecture. The plant was the closest nuclear power plant to ...

TOKYO — A Japanese nuclear reactor that restarted last week for the first time in more than 13 years after it had survived a massive 2011 earthquake and tsunami that badly damaged the nearby Fukushima ...

Before the tsunami in 2011, Japan was generating 30% of its electricity from over 50 nuclear reactors, but all were shutdown within 14 months of the accident. A total of nine units have restarted ...

Tohoku Electric Power Company has requested a safety review by Japan's nuclear regulator of unit 2 at its Onagawa plant, prior to its restart. The Onagawa plant sustained far less damage from the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. To match Feature JAPAN-NUCLEAR/TSUNAMI TOKYO (Reuters) - Tohoku Electric Power resumed operations on Tuesday of the 825 megawatt ...

“A Japanese nuclear reactor that restarted last week for the first time in more than 13 years after it had survived a massive 2011 earthquake and tsunami that badly damaged the nearby Fukushima ...