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After four days of rare protests that shook Iran, President Hassan Rouhani tried to calm the nation on Sunday, saying that people had the right to protest and acknowledging public [...]

FUKUSHIMA DAIICHI NUCLEAR POWER PLANT, Japan -- Four engineers hunched before a bank of monitors, one holding what looked like a game controller. They had spent a month training for [...]

Byline: MARTIN FACKLER FUKUSHIMA DAIICHI NUCLEAR POWER PLANT, Japan -- Four engineers hunched before a bank of monitors, one holding what looked like a game controller. They had spent a [...]

TOKYO -- The towering tsunami that devastated Japan six years ago also unleashed a very different sort of threat onto the distant coastline of North America: a massive invasion of [...]

Byline: MARTIN FACKLER TOKYO -- The towering tsunami that devastated Japan six years ago also unleashed a very different sort of threat onto the distant coastline of North America: a [...]

HAKONE, Japan -- In 1967, Mie Hama was Hollywood's newest sex symbol. That year, the 23-year-old Japanese film star appeared alongside Sean Connery in the James Bond movie ''You Only [...]

TOKYO -- Sitting in a drab industrial neighborhood surrounded by warehouses and factories, Astroscale's Tokyo office seems appropriately located for a company seeking to enter the waste management business. Only [...]

Byline: MARTIN FACKLER TOKYO -- Sitting in a drab industrial neighborhood surrounded by warehouses and factories, Astroscale's Tokyo office seems appropriately located for a company seeking to enter the waste [...]

Byline: MARTIN FACKLER FUKUSHIMA DAIICHI NUCLEAR POWER STATION -- The part above ground doesn't look like much, a few silver pipes in a straight line, dwarfed by the far more [...]

Byline: MARTIN FACKLER FUKUSHIMA DAIICHI NUCLEAR POWER PLANT -- The part above ground doesn't look like much, a few silver pipes running in a straight line, dwarfed by the far [...]

FUKUSHIMA DAIICHI NUCLEAR POWER STATION -- The part above ground doesn't look like much, a few silver pipes running in a straight line, dwarfed by the far more massive, scarred [...]

Byline: MARTIN FACKLER IITATE, Japan -- For four years, an eerie quiet has pervaded the clusters of farmhouses and terraced rice paddies of this mountainous village, emptied of people after [...]

CORRECTION APPENDEDIITATE, Japan -- For four years, an eerie quiet has pervaded the clusters of farmhouses and terraced rice paddies of this mountainous village, emptied of people after the disaster [...]

HENOKO, Japan -- Orange buoys surround a wide swath of clear blue sea off the coast of Okinawa where the United States Marine Corps has long sought to build a [...]

Byline: MARTIN FACKLER HENOKO, Japan -- Orange buoys surround a wide swath of clear blue sea off the coast of Okinawa where the United States Marine Corps has long sought [...]

Byline: MARTIN FACKLER TOKYO -- When Ariana Miyamoto was crowned Miss Universe Japan 2015, participants said she stole the show with a saucy strut, an infectious smile and a calm [...]

TOKYO -- WHEN Ariana Miyamoto was crowned Miss Universe Japan 2015, participants said she stole the show with a saucy strut, an infectious smile and a calm self-confidence that belied [...]

Byline: MARTIN FACKLER TOKYO -- It was an unexpected act of protest that shook Japan's carefully managed media world: Shigeaki Koga, a regular television commentator and fierce critic of the [...]

TOKYO -- The police have arrested a man who said he flew a small drone carrying trace amounts of radioactive material onto the roof of the prime minister's office in [...]