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

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 ...

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 ...

Within months of becoming prime minister, Kakuei Tanaka (1918-1993) normalized Japan’s relations with China at lightning ...

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

The restart of Kashiwazaki-Kariwa comes as Tokyo pushes to cut its reliance on imported fossil fuels amid an expected surge ...

Sources say Tokyo Electric Power Company has decided to restart a reactor at its nuclear power plant in Niigata Prefecture on ...

If approved, Kashiwazaki-Kariwa would become the first nuclear station operated by TEPCO to resume operations since the ...

Local consent removes final hurdle for resumption of world’s largest nuclear facility, shut since 2012 after Fukushima disaster ...

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NIIGATA, Japan >> The Japanese region of Niigata is expected to endorse a ‌decision to restart the world’s largest nuclear ...