After the infamous 2011 explosion of three reactors in Japan’s Kashiwazaki-Kariwa plant in Fukushima, the government shut down all nuclear operations. For fifteen years, Japan banished nuclear power, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Tokyo Electric Power Company's Kashiwazaki-Kariwa Nuclear Power Plant in Kashiwazaki, Niigata, Japan on June 17, 2025. - The Asahi ...

A senior Japanese official’s suggestion that Japan should possess nuclear weapons has reignited debate over whether the country could—or would—break with a decades-old taboo in response to an ...

Japan could develop its own nuclear weapons within 3 years if it wanted to, experts claim. This would be possible because Japan already possesses the raw materials and expertise to do so. According to ...

A local government in Japan voted Monday to restart the world's largest nuclear power plant, which has been closed since 2011 Fukushima nuclear disaster. A local assembly in Japan voted to restart the ...

The Unit 2 reactor at the Shimane nuclear power station resumed operation in January 2025, more than a decade after it, and all other reactors in Japan, were taken offline. Japanese officials want ...

On November 24, the Niigata Prefecture approved the partial restart of the seven-unit Kashiwazaki-Kariwa Nuclear Power Plant—the world’s largest, with a 7,965-megawatt-electric capacity—the first time ...

One year after the Fukushima nuclear crisis, Japan is facing a dilemma of how to clean up the disaster and how to meet current and future energy needs, says expert Charles D. Ferguson, even as the ...

Governments throughout East Asia and the rest of the international system are increasingly agitated about media reports alleging that an anonymous source in the office of Japanese Prime Minister Sanae ...