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Local travel agencies are reporting of tourism to have started gaining momentum in the country, a month after the massive magnitude 9.0 earthquake, which triggered the tsunami and nuclear crisis in Japan.

Two of the world's largest concrete pumps - normally used for concrete in construction projects - departed from the United States on Saturday morning to Japan's Fukushima Daiichi plant to help contain the damaged nuclear reactors there.

Scenes of caution, cleanup and everyday life played out amid a backdrop of catastrophe and new concerns on Friday, a day after a major 7.4 magnitude aftershock struck northeastern Japan following a 9.0 quake in March.

A giant island of earthquake-tsunami debris is floating in the sea and will hit the Hawaiian islands in the months to come, researchers have said, according to CNN.

U.S. stocks declined on Thursday after reports of another earthquake hitting Japan in less than a month, but markets were off their lows after a tsunami warning was lifted.

Japan’s NHK public television has reported that today’s earthquake off the coast of northeast Japan has not caused any additional damage to the Fukushima nuclear power plant, quoting the Tokyo Electric Power Co. (TEPCO).

High Tide Time and Estimated Tsunami Arrival Time at each place

The Japanese government will look at altering the threshold for radiation exposure as it evaluates whether people can return to the exclusion zones around the damaged Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant.

Tokyo Electric Power Co. plans to inject nitrogen into one of the reactors to prevent a hydrogen explosion at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power station.

Tokyo Electric Power Co. plans to inject nitrogen into one of the reactors to prevent a hydrogen explosion at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power station.

Japanese authorities are reporting high levels of cesium in fish off the coast of Ibaraki, about 80 miles south of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power station.

Here is the latest update on the ongoing nuclear crisis as the quake-damaged Fukushima power plant in Japan.

Radioactive material has been found in the groundwater near the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant.

Even as Tokyo Electric Power Company acknowledged that it will decommission four of the six nuclear reactors at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant, there is still the problem of a massive cleanup.

atest update from IAEA on nuclear crisis at Fukushima plant in Japan

The International Atomic Energy Agency says it has measured levels of radiation in a small village northwest of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant high enough that it would recommend evacuation.

The Japanese government said it has no plans currently to widen the evacuation zone outside the damaged nuclear power plant at Fukushima, despite warnings from the UN nuclear watchdog that high radiation levels have been detected beyond the current no-go zone.

Radiation levels in the seawater near the stricken Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant have spiked. That could mean either the reactor core has breached or the spent fuel is leaking radioactive contaminants.

Dramatic rooftop video from Japan's Kesennuma port shows a close-up view of powerful tsunami floods which completely devastated the town on March 11.

About 4,000 bodies remain unidentified in the three prefectures at the very center of the March 11 earthquake-tsunami catastrophe, according to Japan’s National Police Agency (NPA).

The much-criticized operator of the crippled Fukushima nuclear power plant, Tokyo Electric Power Co. (TEPCO), may become nationalized when the government completes its review of the utility’s handling of the ongoing crisis.