Japan's government continues to avoid confronting the difficult reality of nuclear power. But this doesn't mean the myths of inherent safety and absolute necessity of reactors can go on forever.

Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi vowed Tuesday to speed up government work toward reconstruction in Fukushima Prefecture duri ...

The ongoing war in Ukraine and crises in the Middle East have caused significant instability in the international energy supply. For energy importers like Japan, a reliable and affordable energy ...

After the 2011 Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster, Fukushimas farmers work to overcome radiation stigma, despite the ...

TOKYO (AP) — A Japanese court ruled former executives at the utility managing the tsunami-wrecked Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant were not accountable for the 2011 meltdown crisis and do not ...

Residents across Japan's Pacific coast rushed to higher ground on Wednesday as tsunami warnings following a massive earthquake off Russia's Far East resurfaced painful memories and lessons from the ...

Japan authorities hope the alert will encourage residents to prepare for the worst, recalling the 2011 catastrophe that ...

The earthquake struck on 11 March 2011, when a magnitude 9.1 tremor occurred off Japan's northeast coast, generating a tsunami that moved inland with destructive force. Waves reaching 40 metres ...

Japan's Kashiwazaki-Kariwa nuclear power plant, the world's biggest, could be restarted as soon as January pending consent from regional authorities, the plant's director was quoted as saying by Jiji ...

Authorities assessed the damage from Monday's 7.5-magnitude earthquake, amid warnings of aftershocks and potentially larger ...

Officials said the megaquake advisory is not a prediction and the probability of a magnitude 8 or larger quake is only about ...