Motoko Rich and Hisako Ueno

In addition to a well-trained crew and an advanced plane, the safe evacuation of 367 passengers came down to a relative absence of panic.

The authorities continued to look for people buried in the rubble of collapsed and burned buildings in the coastal epicenter of the disaster.

In the face of regional and domestic objections, the country plans to proceed with a discharge at Fukushima that will eventually reach more than a...