On January 1, a magnitude-7.5 quake hit Noto Peninsula of central Japan's Ishikawa prefecture. The deadliest earthquake in Japan since the 2011 Tohoku earthquake caused a total of 401 deaths, injured ...

Causing 18,000 fatalities and great devastation in Japan, on March 11, 2011, a tsunami struck Japan that was triggered by a ...

The government, its makeup in flux after the governing party lost seats this week, will soon need to make decisions that will ...

The government established a feed-in tariff system for electricity in 2012, following the March 2011 Great East Japan ...

A Japanese nuclear reactor which survived a massive 2011 earthquake and tsunami that badly damaged the nearby Fukush ...

The company is yet to announce a date on which operations will resume at the nuclear reactor located in Onagawa power plant.

Political upheaval in Japan as its snap elections see the ruling party lose its majority, reshaping its ties with the US and ...

An aerial view of Ishinomaki, Japan, a week after a 9.0 magnitude earthquake and subsequent tsunami devastated the area. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Lance Cpl. Ethan Johnson) (CN) --- A magnitude 9 ...

In Japan, regional revitalization has emerged as a cornerstone of solutions to issues such as population decline, achieving ...

In the aftermath of the Fukushima meltdown, Japan decommissioned all 54 of its commercial nuclear reactors for safety reassessments and upgrades. Now, 13 out of the 33 viable reactors have been ...

Amid protests, Tohoku Electric Power Co on Tuesday restarted the Onagawa nuclear power plant's No 2 unit in Miyagi Prefecture ...

The unit at Onagawa had escaped the disaster which befell the Fukushima plant in 2011. Read more at straitstimes.com.