For Japan, that creates a conundrum. It has to balance peace ... with protection. A working model of a nuclear shelter has been built in the city of Tsukuba, two hours' drive from Tokyo.

DUBAI--Japan joined a U.S.-led declaration to triple the world’s nuclear energy capacity by 2050 from 2020 levels to realize net-zero greenhouse gas emissions. Twenty-two countries, including ...

Japan will not attend a U.N. conference on the treaty banning nuclear weapons, a top government official in Tokyo said Monday, noting U.S. nuclear deterrence is crucial to the country's security ...

Like all the towns in the nuclear exclusion zone, it essentially no longer exists. Of its 21,000 residents, 7,500 have scattered across Japan. Another 13,500 live in temporary housing in the ...

Besides these reactors being very old and therefore far less safe than when originally built, the legacy technology itself is even more dated and dangerous. Japan cannot afford another Fukushima ...

A key meeting about a United Nations treaty that bans nuclear weapons takes place in spring, but the Japanese government won't be there. Not as a signatory, or as an observer. The decision has ...

(Mainichi/Tadashi Kako) TOKYO -- Japan's Nuclear Regulation Authority (NRA ... rather than treating it as a special case." Although the team increased references to complex disasters in the ...

TOKYO - A Japanese utility has started dismantling an old nuclear reactor with an eye towards building a new one, a spokesman said on March 18, as the country drives for more clean energy.