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Smoke pours out of Fukushima Daiichi power plant shortly after a devastating earthquake and tsunami struck in 2011.

Millions of tons of nuclear wastewater from Fukushima will be dumped into the sea

By Brandon Specktor published

The Japanese government announced plans to dump more than 1 million tons of treated wastewater from the Fukushima nuclear power plant into the ocean, beginning in two years.

Planet Earth
The octopus's ninth arm is an offshoot on its left third arm.

Rare 9-armed octopus found off Japan coast

By Laura Geggel published

How did an octopus in Japan grow nine arms?

Planet Earth
illustration of several coronaviruses

SARS-CoV-2 relative found lurking in frozen bats from Cambodia

By Nicoletta Lanese published

For the first time, close relatives of the novel coronavirus have been found outside China.

Coronavirus
The Olympics were scheduled to take place in Tokyo in the summer of 2020 before being postponed until 2021.

Olympic officials 'very confident' that next year's games in Tokyo will have spectators

By Rachael Rettner published

Japan was scheduled to host the Olympic Games in the summer of 2020, but the coronavirus pandemic forced officials to postpone the competition until 2021.

Coronavirus
The newly described microgastrine parasitoid wasp Microgaster godzilla

Watch a 'Godzilla' wasp dominate Mothra in this eerie lab video

By Nicoletta Lanese published

Scientists discovered a new species of aquatic wasp that reminds them of Godzilla.

Moths
An unidentified flying object (UFO) was seen above Aoba Ward in Sendai, Japan, on the morning of June 17, 2020.

'It's not ours': Government denies knowledge of strange 'UFO' over Japanese city

By Brandon Specktor published

A strange balloon-shaped 'UFO' appeared and disappeared over the city of Sendai, Japan on Wednesday (June 17).

Extraterrestrial Life
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Moon's mysterious disappearance 900 years ago finally gets an explanation

By Brandon Specktor published

A series of 'forgotten' volcanic eruptions could explain accounts of the moon 'vanishing' in A.D. 1110.

Planet Earth
What might the "red sign" have looked like?

1,400-year-old mystery of strange 'red sign' in Japan's sky solved

By Meghan Bartels published

A scarlet fan spread across the skies over Japan 1,400 years ago, and it's been puzzling astronomers ever since.

Astronomy
A photo shows the cliffside in Japan's Chiba prefecture that's part of a line of sediment that recorded the geologic history of the planet between 770,000 and 126,000 years ago.

Earth has a new geologic age: The Chibanian

By Rafi Letzter published

It's all thanks to a cliff by a river in Japan.

Geology
Life restoration of Fukuipteryx prima.

Dinosaur-Era Bird Preserved in 3D Could Rewrite History of Flight

By Mindy Weisberger published

A previously unknown species of primitive bird has a tail feature associated with flight in modern birds.

Dinosaurs
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