The country is rapidly moving to restart reactors as artificial intelligence increases electricity demand and foreign wars choke gas supplies.

Japan's nuclear power output rose to 33.6 percent of the total capacity of operable reactors in fiscal 2025, the highest ...

The statement emphasizes the importance of passing on 'invaluable testimonies' of the survivors of the 1945 U.S. atomic ...

In recent years, speculation among analysts, experts, and scholars that America’s two key allies in the Indo-Pacific could finally pursue nuclear weapons has intensified. The eminent diplomat Henry ...

NAMIE, Fukushima Prefecture–A significant shift in Japan's energy policy has sparked outrage among evacuees such as Ichiro Suenaga who were forced to flee their homes following the 2011 disaster at ...

Beijing asks the international body to prioritise Tokyo’s ‘dangerous tendency to seek nuclear weapons’ as regional row ...

Japan has identified Minamitorishima, a remote and uninhabited coral atoll in the western Pacific, as a potential site for permanent nuclear waste disposal. The proposal marks the first time the ...

Japan's representative said 'introduction of nuclear weapons is not permitted' under its nonnuclear principles and that its ...

The United States and Japan have been considering the inclusion of a nuclear power project involving Westinghouse in the $550-billion package of investment that Japan has pledged in the U.S. under the ...

Japan’s non-nuclear stance remains resilient due to entrenched institutional, legal and normative constraints, even as debates over extended deterrence and nuclear sharing intensify amid a ...

The disasters at Chernobyl and Fukushima are commonly touted as mere cultural exceptions, either due to Soviet communism or to Japanese “groupism.” Doing so is not only inaccurate or borderline racist ...

Neither China nor Japan wants war. The danger is that each side increasingly believes the other is preparing for one.