On January 1, a magnitude-7.5 quake hit Noto Peninsula of central Japan's Ishikawa prefecture. The deadliest earthquake in Japan since the 2011 Tohoku earthquake caused a total of 401 deaths, injured ...

More than 30% of people in their 20s to 30s in Japan were unaware the government had issued an advisory for a potential ...

HONG KONG, Nov. 11 (Xinhua) -- An earthquake with a magnitude of 5.0 hit Southeast of Honshu, Japan at 1150 GMT on Monday, the GFZ German Research Center for Geosciences said. The epicenter, with a ...

The government, its makeup in flux after the governing party lost seats this week, will soon need to make decisions that will ...

The company is yet to announce a date on which operations will resume at the nuclear reactor located in Onagawa power plant.

Political upheaval in Japan as its snap elections see the ruling party lose its majority, reshaping its ties with the US and ...

A Japanese nuclear reactor which survived a massive 2011 earthquake and tsunami that badly damaged the nearby Fukush ...

Nuclear power used to account for around a quarter of Japan’s electricity mix prior to the disaster, but it was at just 6% as ...

Concern about the government's revived push for nuclear energy grew after a magnitude 7.5 earthquake hit Japan's Noto Peninsula on Jan. 1, 2024, killing more than 400 people and damaging more than ...

In the aftermath of the Fukushima meltdown, Japan decommissioned all 54 of its commercial nuclear reactors for safety reassessments and upgrades. Now, 13 out of the 33 viable reactors have been ...

In Japan, regional revitalization has emerged as a cornerstone of solutions to issues such as population decline, achieving ...