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Mari Yamaguchi

Japan, Philippines huddle amid increasing China concerns

Mari Yamaguchi

Japanese nuclear plant deemed safe, nears restart

Mari Yamaguchi

FILE - In this Sunday, Oct. 27, 2013 file photo, Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, right, reviews members of Japan Self-Defense Forces (SDF) during the Self-Defense Forces Day at Asaka Base, north of Tokyo. Japan relaxed a decades-old ban on military-related exports Tuesday, April 1, 2014, in a bid to expand joint arms development with allies and equipment sales to Southeast Asia and elsewhere. The new guidelines endorsed Tuesday by the Cabinet are part of Abe's push to bolster national security amid China's military expansion and North Korea's nuclear threat. (AP Photo/Shizuo Kambayashi, File) (AP)

Japan OKs easing of military-related exports

Mari Yamaguchi

Fuel removal begins today at Fukushima. How dangerous is it?

Mari Yamaguchi

Japan typhoon kills at least 17, but avoids causing new disaster at Fukushima

Mari Yamaguchi

The steel structure for the use of the spent fuel removal from the cooling pool is seen at the Unit 4 of the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear plant at Okuma in Fukushima prefecture, Japan, Wednesday, June 12, 2013. (AP Photo/Noboru Hashimto)

Nuclear watchdog: Ocean contamination likely at Fukushima

Mari Yamaguchi

Japanese film director Nagisa Oshima dies at 80

Mari Yamaguchi

Evacuees in protective clothing wait for a substitute bus to come beside their disabled bus, after they returned for a a brief visit to their houses in the exclusion area, in Okuma, Fukushima prefecture, northeastern Japan, Saturday, June 4, 2011. The tsunami-crippled Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant is located in the town. (AP Photo/Kyodo News) JAPAN OUT, MANDATORY CREDIT, NO LICENSING IN CHINA, HONG KONG, JAPAN, SOUTH KOREA AND FRANCE (AP)

Water cleanup stalled at crippled Japan nuclear plant

Mari Yamaguchi

Police officers' protective suits, boots and helmets are placed on the ground while they rest after their recovery operation shift in the area destroyed by the March 11 earthquake and tsunami in Kesennuma, Miyagi Prefecture, northeastern Japan, Saturday, May 7, 2011. (AP Photo/Junji Kurokawa) (AP)

Japan won’t abandon nuclear power despite crisis

Mari Yamaguchi

In this April 12, 2011 photo released by the Japan Defense Agency via Kyodo News, a Japanese soldier is tested for radiation exposure at J-Village, a soccer training complex now serving as an operation base for those battling Japan's worst nuclear disaster, northeastern Japan. The sports complex is about about 20 kilometers (12 miles) from the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear plant. (AP Photo/Japan Defense Agency via Kyodo News) JAPAN OUT, MANDATORY CREDIT, NO LICENSING IN CHINA, HONG KONG, JAPAN, SOUTH KOREA AND FRANCE (AP)

Japan mulls a stricter evacuation zone near plant

Elaine Kurtenbach, Mari Yamaguchi

Japanese police officers carry a body during a search and recovery operation for missing victims in the area devastated by the March 11 earthquake and tsunami in Namie, Fukushima Prefecture, northeastern Japan, Friday, April 15, 2011. In the background is part of the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear complex.(AP Photo/Hiro Komae) (AP)

Radioactivity rises in sea off Japan nuclear plant

Mari Yamaguchi

Toya Chiba, a reporter with the Iwate Tokai newspaper, recounts his ordeal with the tsunami that swept him away at the port city of Kamaishi, northeastern Japan, on Wednesday April 13, 2011. The region was struck by a massive earthquake that spawned the tsunami on March 11, 2011. Chiba, who was shooting photos at the mouth of the Owatari River when the tsunami struck him, survived and found himself only suffering scratches and bruises after being swept away for about 30 meters (98 feet). (AP Photo/Kyodo News) JAPAN OUT, MANDATORY CREDIT, NO LICENSING IN CHINA, HONG KONG, JAPAN, SOUTH KOREA AND FRANCE (AP)

Japan nuke plant operator to compensate evacuees

Mari Yamaguchi, Shino Yuasa

FILE - In this undated file photo released by Tokyo Electric Power Co., the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant reactors stand in line intact in Okuma town in Fukushima Prefecture, northeastern Japan. Radiation has covered the area around the Fukushima Dai-ichi plant and blanketed parts of the complex, making the job of rendering the plant safe so that it doesn't threaten public health and the environment, or "decommissioning", a bigger task than usual. (AP Photo/Tokyo Electric Power Co.,File) (AP)

End to Japan nuke crisis is years, a fortune away

Charles Hutzler, Mari Yamaguchi

Members of the Japan Ground Self-Defense Force gather to search the victims of the March 11 earthquake and tsunami devastated area in Kesennuma, Miyagi Prefecture, northern Japan, Saturday, April 2, 2011. (AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko) (AP)

Radioactive water leaks from crippled Japan plant

Mari Yamaguchi, Eugene Hoshiko

In this photo taken Friday, March 25, 2011, a man walks at the devastated city of Onagawa, Miyagi prefecture, northeastern Japan. As March 11 massive tsunami ravaged this Japanese fishing town, 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 playing ball games with their children next to three atomic reactors. It's a startling contrast to the troubled nuclear plant 75 miles (120 kilometers) southeast, where radiation leaks have forced an evacuation of nearby towns, terrifying the nation. (AP Photo/Vincent Yu) (AP)

Setbacks mount in Japan at leaking nuclear plant

Mari Yamaguchi

A protester in protective mask holds a placard during an anti nuclear rally in Tokyo, Sunday, March 27, 2011. Leaked water in Unit 2 of the Fukushima Dai-ichi plant measured 10 million times higher than usual radioactivity levels when the reactor is operating normally, Tokyo Electric Power Co. spokesman Takashi Kurita told reporters in Tokyo. The placard has a message that reads "Don't spread radioactive substance." (AP Photo/Itsuo Inouye) (AP)

Huge radiation spike at Japan nuclear plant was a mistake

Yuri Kageyama, Mari Yamaguchi

U.S. Navy's barge YOGN-115, back, is towed by Japan's Maritime Self-Defense Force's multi purpose support ship off the coast of Isumi, Chiba Prefecture, Japan, Saturday, March 26, 2011. The barge carrying 1.04 million liters (275,000 gallons) of fresh water departed Commander, Fleet Activities Yokosuka (CFAY) Friday to support cooling efforts at the tsunami-damaged Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant. (AP Photo/Yomiuri Shimbun, Yasushi Kanno) JAPAN OUT, MANDATORY CREDIT (AP)

Seawater near Japan plant tests high for radiation

Eric Talmadge, Mari Yamaguchi

Residents pay their last respects to a victim as a van carrying the coffin leaves a temporary morgue at a bowling alley in Natori, Miyagi Prefecture Monday, March 21, 2011 as the death toll continues to rise following the March 11 earthquake and tsunami that devastated the northeast coast of Japan. (AP Photo/Mark Baker) (AP)

No quick fix seen at Japan’s nuclear plant

Eric Talmadge, Mari Yamaguchi

In this photo released by Tokyo Electric Power Co. (TEPCO), gray smoke rises from Unit 3 of the tsunami-stricken Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant in Okumamachi, Fukushima Prefecture, Japan, Monday, March 21, 2011. Official says the TEPCO temporarily evacuated its workers from the site. At left is Unit 2 and at right is Unit 4. (AP Photo/Tokyo Electric Power Co.) EDITORIAL USE ONLY (AP)

Workers flee Japan nuclear plant as smoke rises

Eric Talmadge, Mari Yamaguchi

A traditional Japanese sandal, worn with formal kimono dress, lies in the rubble in the earthquake and tsunami destroyed town of Onagawa, Miyagi Prefecture, northeastern Japan Sunday, March 20, 2011. (AP Photo/David Guttenfelder) (AP)

Japan’s disaster toll rises with 18,000 deaths

Eric Talmadge, Mari Yamaguchi

A man watches TV showing a Japanese military helicopter dumping water on the troubled reactors of the Fukushima Dai-ichi complex, at an electronics retail store in Osaka, western Japan, on Thursday, March 17, 2011. (AP Photo/Kyodo News) JAPAN OUT, MANDATORY CREDIT, NO LICENSING IN CHINA, HONG KONG, JAPAN, SOUTH KOREA AND FRANCE (AP)

Japan’s nuclear power plant battle may take weeks, U.S. says

Eric Talmadge, Mari Yamaguchi

091117-N-9211M-181 PACIFIC OCEAN (Nov. 17, 2009) Ã± JS Hyuga (DDH 181) steams through the Pacific Ocean during a 26 ship formation photo exercise while Seahawk helicopters from the Chargers, Helicopter Anti-Submarine Squadron (HS) 14, fly in formation alongside. George Washington, the NavyÃs only permanently forward-deployed aircraft carrier participated in a photo exercise which was the culmination of ANNUALEX 21G, the largest annual bilateral exercise with the U.S. Navy and the Japan Maritime Self Defense Force. (U.S. Navy photo by LT Reann S. Mommsen/RELEASED) (Reann S. Mommsen)

Japanese choppers dump water on stricken reactor

Eric Talmadge, Mari Yamaguchi

Japan begins air drop on stricken reactor

Eric Talmadge, Mari Yamaguchi

U.S. says plant’s spent fuel rods dry; Japan says no

Eric Talmadge, Mari Yamaguchi

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