Exclusive coverage from Lisa Desjardins and the politics team
Thank you. Please check your inbox to confirm.
Japan Strains to Thwart Nuclear Meltdown at Three Reactors
... United Nations efforts to bring international relief to Japan. Catherine Bragg is the assistant secretary-general for the coordination of humanitarian affairs. Ms. Bragg, has Japan made specific requests for aid? What have they been asking for? CATHERINE BRAGG, United Nations: Japan is actually a very well-prepared and well ...
Google Earth has published updated satellite images that show earthquake and tsunami damage in Japan. Explore these images and view related video and photos. Several of these images require the Google Earth plugin for your Web browser. View all of our Japan coverage and follow us on Twitter.
The death toll climbed to 1,900 after a massive earthquake and tsunami crippled northeastern Japan, but some officials estimated the toll would exceed 10,000. James Mates, Alex Thomson and Angus Walker of Independent Television News report from Japan on the rescue and recovery efforts.
Even as Japanese officials try to sort out whether jolted nuclear reactors could slip into full meltdown after Friday's massive earthquake and tsunami, experts are weighing in on how events unfolding there compare to previous high-profile nuclear disasters. The Fukushima Daiichi reactors in Japan are fission reactors, and ...
Japan's Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear facility on March 14. Photo via DigitalGlobe. 10:30 p.m. ET The nuclear crisis in Japan escalated Tuesday after an explosion at an earthquake-hit nuclear power plant damaged a reactor's containment vessel, raising the danger of larger emission of radioactive material ...
... area around the two [nuclear] reactors," said Mark Preslan, Asia-Pacific regional director for the American Red Cross, who has been in touch with his Japanese counterparts. Japanese Red Cross medical teams are deploying to emergency areas to act as first responders as well, and staffing hospitals and mobile units ...
The Japan Red Cross is working around the clock to provide food, shelter and medical services to the many people injured and displaced by Friday's earthquake and tsunami.
Sailors prepare to deliver supplies for relief efforts in Japan following earthquake. Photo courtesy of U.S. Navy Japan's triple whammy -- earthquake, tsunami and a possible nuclear disaster, which Prime Minister Naoto Kan called the worst crisis since World War II -- will dominate the week. The death toll could ...
Video from Iwate prefecture shows the wave rolling over a seawall, inundating a large city. In another video report, three elderly people are rescued from a car 20 hours after the disaster.
Support Provided By: Learn more
Subscribe to Here’s the Deal, our politics newsletter for analysis you won’t find anywhere else.