Topic: Tokyo Electric Power

Executives at Tokyo Electric Power downplayed the risks of a deadly tsunami, according to a Japanese press report.

Tokyo Electric Power Co. is to release radioactive wastewater off the coast of Japan "slowly for 30 years," according to a Japanese press report.

Radioactive water that's being stored at Japan's disabled Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant could be eliminated by releasing it into the Pacific Ocean, a government-appointed panel proposed Monday.

Japanese officials said Monday it is safe to dispose in the Pacific Ocean contaminated water that's been trapped inside the Fukushima nuclear power plant since its core meltdowns eight years ago.

A Japanese court on Thursday acquitted three former Tokyo Electric Power Co. executives on charges of professional negligence in connection to the 2011 Fukushima meltdown.

Japanese beer company Asahi is at the center of a growing controversy in South Korea, following Asahi's decision to sell beer using ingredients from Fukushima.

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.