Spanning the globe, some stories were expected while others caught the world off guard. Some, including the Rohingya exodus, Arab Spring, BP oil spill and the melting of glaciers so massive they were visible from space through the satellite imagery of Maxar Technologies.

Athletes from around the world are expected to travel to Japan when the 2020 Games open in July.

More than eight years after an earthquake and tsunami ravaged a Fukushima power plant, Japan has not formally decided what to do with contaminated water from the incident.

The fuel is being removed from a cooling pool at one of three reactors that melted down in the 2011 disaster, a milestone in the decades-long process to decommission the plant.

Environmentalist David Suzuki once raised significant alarm about the risk to B.C.'s coast from Fukushima. A new study shows no significant effects were found in samples of soil and Pacific salmon.

A handful of Ontario university students are touring parts of Japan to better understand the devastating effects of the country's 2011 nuclear disaster and the problems that persist.

Environmental groups say Ontario's proposed new plan for dealing with nuclear emergencies is inadequate.

Robots are going to take key roles in dismantling Fukushima's damaged nuclear reactors crippled by a devastating earthquake and tsunami.

The Japan Meteorological Agency says a magnitude-6.1 earthquake struck Thursday morning off the shore of southern Fukushima prefecture.

An earthquake with preliminary magnitude of 7.3 has struck off the coast of Fukushima prefecture in Japan. A tsunami warning for waves of up to three meters has been issued.