Japan’s Tohoku University has been developing a unique disaster-prevention system through its Tsunami Balloon Project.

Japan's former currency chief says the Bank of Japan (BoJ) is "behind the curve" on taking policy action, adding that higher ...

Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings Inc. on Monday began sending electricity from its Kashiwazaki-Kariwa nuclear plant in Niigata Prefecture, central Japan, to the Tokyo metropolitan area for the ...

Japan switched on the world's biggest nuclear power plant again on Monday, its operator said, after an earlier attempt was ...

The world's biggest nuclear power plant is again operating, after an earlier attempt to bring the facility back online was ...

Japan has restarted a reactor at the Kashiwazaki-Kariwa plant after a 14-year shutdown, marking a pivotal shift back toward ...

In a shuttered school north of Tokyo, office workers assemble cardboard houses in minutes, part of a travel agency's effort to help people better prepare for life in evacuation shelters. A Tokyo-based ...

Tepco has restarted its Kashiwazaki-Kariwa NPP Unit 6 in Niigata after technical delays, aiming for commercial operation by ...

Tokyo Electric Power Company has restarted unit 6 of its Kashiwazaki-Kariwa nuclear power plant in Japan's Niigata Prefecture ...

TOKYO >> More than 20,000 communities in Japan could be cut off from the rest of the country by a major disaster, according to research by The Yomiuri Shimbun.

Japan's Tokyo Electric Power Company plans to restart unit 6 at its Kashiwazaki-Kariwa nuclear power plant on Monday. An attempt last month to restart the reactor, which has been offline for almost 14 ...