About 1,000 people on Monday descended on Nakoso beach, about 40 miles south of the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear plant, where three reactors melted down after the March 11, 2011, earthquake and tsunami.

The stretch of beach is about 25km north of the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station. The beach was very popular with surfers before the tsunami and nuclear disaster, with multiple national and ...

A beach in Iwaki, Fukushima Prefecture, which was long regarded as the most popular swimming spot in the prefecture, has reopened to the public for the first time since the March 11, 2011 disaster.

TOKYO – Fukushima prefecture (state) has opened its first beach to swimmers since last year's nuclear disaster after judging the water to be safe. About 1,000 people on Monday descended on ...

IWAKI, Japan — Every day, at 10 a.m. and 2 p.m., a part-time worker at one of Fukushima's most well-known beaches walks toward the shoreline and lowers a dosimeter to the water. The device ...

Children were making a splash in the water and surfers catching a wave near the crippled Fukushima nuclear plant on Saturday as a beach finally opened to them for the first time since the 2011 ...

Japan's Fukushima state has opened its first beach to swimmers since last year's nuclear disaster after judging the water to be safe. About 1,000 people descended on Nakoso beach, about 40 miles ...

Swimming at the beach once popular with surfers has been allowed for the first time following the largest nuclear disaster since Chernobyl. Fukushima beach reopens for first time since 2011 ...

IWAKI, Japan — Every day, at 10 a.m. and 2 p.m., a part-time worker at one of Fukushima’s most well-known beaches walks toward the shoreline and lowers a dosimeter to the water. The dev… ...

TOKYO — Fukushima prefecture (state) has opened its first beach to swimmers since last year’s nuclear disaster after judging the water to be safe. About 1,000 people on Monday descended on ...