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 ...

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 ...

But wait, isn't the beach laced with radioactivity following the meltdowns over a year ago at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear station 40 miles to the north?

A cheering crowd came back to the Kitaizumi beach about 25 kilometres north of the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station as the city of Minamisoma officially started to allow people to swim there.

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Tokyo: Children splashed in the water and surfers caught waves near the crippled Fukushima nuclear plant as a beach finally opened ...

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 ...