Electric authorities began removing spent fuel rods Monday from the damaged reactor at Japan's Fukushima power station, eight years after its core melted down in one of the world's worst nuclear accidents.

Typhoon Trami shut down railway transportation in Tokyo Sunday as it continued to bring heavy rain to Japan.

The Japanese government reported Wednesday the first official death attributed to the nuclear meltdown at the Fukushima nuclear plant seven years ago.

One person was killed and 11 were injured after a volcano eruption possibly triggered an avalanche at a ski resort near Tokyo, Japanese officials said Tuesday.

Radioactive contamination may have been leaking from Japan's paralyzed nuclear plant in Fukushima, and the water could have been seeping out for months.

Japan is gradually moving to bring back online nuclear power plants that were idled following the 2011 quake-tsunami disaster.

Japanese authorities said a worker found what appears to be an undetonated World War II-era bomb on the premises of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant.

Three executives from the Fukushima nuclear power plant that melted down after an earthquake and tsunami in 2011 got underway Friday.

Workers measured radiation levels that would kill a person after even momentary exposure inside Japan's melted down Fukushima nuclear power plant.

For the first time since the nuclear disaster five years ago, radiation from Japan's Fukushima plant has reached the West Coast of the United States.

Japan's electricity customers may have to pay more in order to cover the cost of decommissioning the Fukushima nuclear power plant.

Snow fell in Tokyo and surrounding areas Thursday for the first time in November in 54 years.

Tsunami warnings have been lifted and power has been restored in Japan after a 6.9-magnitude earthquake shook the island nation's eastern coast.

A liquefied natural gas project in Papua New Guinea, led Exxon Mobil, marked a milestone with its 100th delivery during the weekend, the consortium said.

The U.S. Geological Survey reported a 7.8-magnitude earthquake occurred just under 550 miles off Japan's coast early this morning.