Peter Hadfield

Japan comes clean on leprosy policy

China's bill for wartime cleanup

Tokyo's deadly nerve gas 'easy to make'

Asbestos shock in Kobe cleanup

Wartime skeletons return to haunt Japan

Disaster quake wins grim place in record books

Technology

The all-singing smart card

Sun sets on Japan's economic miracle

Earthquake theory up in the air

Technology

Data storage enters new phase

'Dead insect' grounds Japan's rocket

The revenge of the rain gods: Japan is in the middle of a drought. The taps are only turned on for five hours a day and factories are closed. But what is the solution? Is it pumping groundwater, building dams or reusing water? Peter Hadfield reports