Since the Fukushima nuclear accident in 2011, Japan has restarted 14 reactors of its plant that remain operable as it tries ...

The governor of Niigata has formally given local consent to put two reactors at the Kashiwazaki-Kariwa nuclear power plant in the north-central prefecture back online, clearing a last hurdle toward re ...

Japan has approved Tokyo Electric Power Co. to restart the Kashiwazaki-Kariwa nuclear site as the world's largest nuclear ...

As South Korea and the U.S. advance discussions on introducing nuclear-powered submarines, Japanese cabinet leaders have also ...

A senior government official who advises Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi on security expressed a personal opinion that ...

What does it take to convince a nation scarred by disaster to trust nuclear power again? In Niigata Prefecture, that question has dominated debate for years, culminating this week in the decision to ...

The Japanese company TEPCO plans to reopen the world's largest nuclear power plant after obtaining approval from local ...

The statement comes after an official at Japan’s prime minister’s office said Tokyo should ‘possess nuclear weapons’ ...

Foreign Affairs published an essay last month arguing that" nuclear armament by Canada, Germany and Japan could stabilize the ...

China's Foreign Ministry has fired a warning shot after a senior Japanese official suggested Tokyo should reconsider its nearly eight-decade ban on nuclear weapons in light of the worsening regional ...

Japan wants to boost nuclear power generation to slash its reliance on imported fossil fuels. But the public is torn between ...

Japanese authorities have approved a decision to restart the world’s biggest nuclear power plant, which has sat dormant for more than a decade following the Fukushima nuclear disaster, in a pivotal ...