Japan doesn’t seem likely to develop nuclear weapons in the short-term. However, the tensions that triggered this episode are ...

Despite public opposition and the memory of the Fukushima disaster, Japan's government has approved a new energy plan aiming ...

Japan is reviving nuclear power, balancing the need for more clean energy against the lingering trauma of the 2011 Fukushima ...

Japan's ruling party is considering scrapping its non-nuclear principles as tensions with China and North Korea escalate, sparking fierce domestic backlash.Japan's ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP ...

A senior government official who advises Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi on security expressed a personal opinion that Japan should have nuclear weapons, according to local media reports. The ...

China is ramping up objections to what it sees as Japan’s desire to acquire nuclear weapons, despite Tokyo’s longstanding renunciation of such arms, deepening another fissure in the two neighbors’ ...

A local assembly in Japan voted to restart the world's largest nuclear power plant. This plant has been idle since a 2011 nuclear disaster in Japan at a plant run by the same company. NPR's Anthony ...

NAGASAKI -- Twenty-two organizations in Nagasaki Prefecture including A-bomb survivor groups issued a statement of protest ...

NIIGATA, Japan, Dec 22 (Reuters) - The Japanese region of Niigata is expected to endorse a decision to restart the world's largest nuclear power plant on Monday, a watershed moment in the country's ...