Japan is on track to re-start the world’s largest nuclear reactor for the first time in nearly 15 years. It's part of a broader return to nuclear power, not only in Japan, but also around the Asia ...

Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings Inc. has announced it will restart a reactor northwest of Tokyo on January 20, after ...

Struck by a 9.0-magnitude earthquake and a subsequent tsunami on March 11, 2011, the Fukushima nuclear plant experienced core ...

Japan wants to boost nuclear power generation to slash its reliance on imported fossil fuels. But the public is torn between ...

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

The Kashiwazaki-Kariwa plant, which comprises seven reactors, is the world's biggest. The plant has been offline since 2012 ...

Before Fukushima, nuclear power supplied around 30 percent of Japan’s electricity. But after the disaster, the country shut ...

Japan is providing $1.3 billion in subsidies over five years to companies, including data centers, that commit to using 100% ...

The following is the latest list of selected news summaries by Kyodo News. ---------- Gov't eyes capping foreign workers at ...

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

Japan is set to reopen its largest nuclear power plant next month, 15 years after the Fukushima nuclear meltdown.