Survivors and residents on Saturday shared their grief and memories of the calamity wrought by the major earthquake that killed over 6,400 people in Kobe and the wider western Japan region in 1995, ...

Japan shut down 54 reactors after the Fukushima meltdown, but momentum has gathered under Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi to ...

A strong 6.2-magnitude earthquake has shaken western Japan, the country’s meteorological office said, with no tsunami warning ...

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

A 6.2-magnitude earthquake rattled western Japan on Tuesday, with no tsunami warning issued and no major damage reported. The tremor, recorded in Shimane prefecture, follows a series of smaller quakes ...

The first “Big One” earthquake in more than a decade has rattled the world. What if it had happened anywhere else? Say, California? Or Japan?

Central Japan's Mie Prefecture is considering reinstating nationality requirements for its staff, effectively ending the ...

Safety screenings of two nuclear reactors in central Japan’s Hamaoka nuclear power plant were reportedly fabricated.

Japan's nuclear watchdog is scrapping the safety screening for two reactors at the Hamaoka nuclear power plant. The operator, Chubu Electric Power Co., was found to have fabricated data ...

Japan's nuclear regulator on Wednesday decided to conduct on-site inspections as early as this month at the headquarters of a nuclear ...

Every time a major disaster has occurred, such as the Great East Japan Earthquake, the Kumamoto Earthquake and the Noto ...