In reverse chronology:

Japan-EARTHQUAKE
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Japan-TSUNAMI
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BBC: 21Mar 
Japan tsunamic footage to help predict future waves. See video
      http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-south-asia-12786619
      NOTE: each BBC pages has lots of links to analysis 

Japan-NUK

NYT:  25Mar NYT:
UN Nuke Chief says "Japan far from end of the accident"
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/27/world/asia/27japan.html?hp

See video, 
    Pix  how radiation contamination can travel GIF/radconttravel.jpg
         (really good job in a single wide pix)
    7 slides on aspects of story
    20+ videos covering Mar 11-23  (I assume these can be reached
        from other stories and number will grow.  If you listen in order
        you will get feeling how story evolved -- "facts" change.)

BBC:  22 Mar  Work resumes at striken Japan nuclear plant wrong 3 days later.
      http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-pacific-12824166
      Many early videos and stories.  E.g., see Northern lights.

BAS  16Mar The lessons of Fukushima  Hugh Gusterson
http://www.thebulletin.org/print/web-edition/columnists/hugh-gusterson/the-lessons-of-fukushima
    "To this anthropologist, then, the lesson of Fukushima is not that we
     now know what we need to know to design the perfectly safe reactor,
     but that the perfectly safe reactor is always just around the
     corner. It is technoscientific hubris to think otherwise."

Peter Ladkin  27Mar  Fukushima, the Tsunami Hazard, and Engineering Practice
 http://www.abnormaldistribution.org/2011/03/27/fukushima-the-tsunami-hazard-and-engineering-practice/

Charles Perrow Organizations and Global Warming 
      Handbook of Society for Climate Change, Routledge 2010
    http://iis-db.stanford.edu/pubs/22824/Chapter_for_Handbook_of_Society_and_Climate_Change.pdf
      Normal Accidents: Living with High-Risk Technologies [paperback]
      Charles Perrow (Princetom UP, 1999)

NUK-design flaws (lead reporter Norihiko Shirouzu)
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These and more show how the story has bounced around.

WSJ 25Mar No Slowing Seen in Japan Nuclear Expansion
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704050204576218470429152728.html?KEYWORDS=Norihiko+shirouzu#printMode

WSJ 23Mar Japan ignored warming of nuclear design flaw
    http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703410604576216481092750122.html?KEYWORDS=Norihiko+shirouzu#printMode
 
WSJ 22Mar  Japan Plant had troubled history
     see graphics
   http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704433904576212980463881792.html?KEYWORDS=Norihiko+shirouzu

WSJ  21Mar  Officials Expect 'Ups and Downs' in Reactor Fight 
     http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704433904576212412893480804.html?KEYWORDS=Norihiko+shirouzu#printMode