Kansai Electric Power will begin surveys for the construction of a new nuclear power reactor at its Mihama power station in ...

A Japanese power company unveiled plans for the country’s first nuclear reactor since the 2011 Fukushima meltdown.

The Japanese government on July 1 approved significant upgrades to the plan to safeguard the public in the event of a major ...

Decontaminated but slightly radioactive soil from Fukushima has been delivered to the Japanese prime minister’s office to be ...

TOKYO: Japan has warned of a 70–80% chance of a magnitude 8–9 earthquake along the Nankai Trough within the next 30 years, ...

The United States and Japan concluded a weeklong disaster-response exercise that simulated a magnitude 7 earthquake, the ...

Just two days before the exact date (July 5, 2025) that manga artist Ryo Tatsuki predicted in her cult novel The Future I Saw, Japan was rattled by a 5.5-magnitude earthquake on Thursday. The quake’s ...

Aftershocks rattled Japan on Tuesday after at least 62 people were killed in a powerful earthquake on the western coast that flattened buildings and triggered tsunami warnings. On Monday afternoon ...

TOKYO, Japan — A powerful magnitude 5.9 earthquake shook the Tokyo area on Thursday night, injuring more than 30 people, damaging underground water pipes and halting trains and subways ...

TOKYO — Japan on Saturday experienced a strong earthquake that shook buildings in the capital, Tokyo, and caused a tsunami advisory for the country’s northeast coast. There were no immediate ...

SENDAI, JAPAN - MARCH 12: In this aerial image, Fukushima Daiichi Nucler Power Plant is seen after an 9.0 magnitude strong earthquake struck on March 11 off the coast of north-eastern Japan, on ...

TOKYO — Long before the Covid-19 pandemic overwhelmed Olympic planners with the monumental task of preventing a superspreader event, another worst-case scenario loomed over the Tokyo Games.. An ...