Jonathan Soble

Mitsubishi Motors admitted Tuesday that it had used improper methods to test the fuel economy of cars sold in Japan for 25 years.

People here said they had known that a network of fault lines ran under their town like veins. But no major earthquake had struck in anyone’s lifetime. Even in Japan, the most seismically unstable country in the world, that fact had apparently created a false sense of security.

Secretary of State John Kerry attended a memorial ceremony in Hiroshima on Monday for victims of the U.S. atomic bombing 71 years ago, becoming the highest-ranking U.S. administration official to visit the site of one of the most destructive acts of World War II.

A man who developed leukemia after working on a cleanup crew at the ruined Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant has been awarded workers’ compensation by the Japanese government, in what amounts to the first official acknowledgment that exposure to radiation at the disaster site may have caused cancer.