The White House is preparing for a situation in Japan that could be "deadly for decades," a U.S. official tells ABC News. Become a founding member of HuffPost Plus today. The nuclear crisis in Japan has intensified since the massive earthquake first damaged nuclear facilities.

As China reportedly mulls a ban on Japanese seafood amid a standoff between the Asian neighbors, Taiwan's leader shows support for Tokyo, with his lunch.

Japan sees currency intervention as a possibility in dealing with excessively volatile and speculative moves in the yen, Finance Minister Satsuki Katayama said on Friday, in the strongest warning to date against recent falls in the currency.

Beijing suggested it might reimpose a ban on seafood imports from Japan after warning its citizens to avoid travel there and postponing the releases of at least two Japanese movies.

Residents in the northern region of Akita are living in fear after dozens of assaults on humans. Riot police and the army have been sent to help.

Dozens of earthquakes struck near Japan on Monday following a cluster of seismic activity that rocked the area over the weekend. Today's set of earthquakes follow a 6.8 magnitude earthquake that struck off the coast of Japan’s Iwate Prefecture at 5:03 p.m. local time on Sunday that prompted a tsunami warning.

A volcano on Japan’s major western island of Kyushu had multiple eruptions on Sunday, sending a plume of ash almost three miles into the air.

Canada's dollar slipped back from its best level of the month, after staging its biggest one-day gain in three months on Tuesday. The move came after the Canadian Parliament this week narrowly voted in favor of Prime Minister Mark Carney's first budget, staving off the risk of a second election in less than a year.