Nuclear power plants in Japan are designed to be able to withstand seismic activity between 600 to 1,000 gals (a gal being a unit of acceleration used in gravimetry to measure the local impact of ...

Japan’s Emperor Naruhito has visited Iwo Jima to pay tribute to Japanese and Americans who died on the island in one of World ...

Officials from the Karatsu Coast Guard Office and others search SGC Saga Aviation Co. on the morning of April 9, 2025, in Saga, Saga Prefecture. (Mainichi/Takaharu Nishi) The Japan Coast Guard on ...

The Japan Atomic Energy Agency has developed what it says is the ... Korean researchers are considering radiocarbon as a source for safe, small and affordable nuclear batteries that could last decades ...

Since the catastrophic nuclear accident at the Fukushima power plant in 2011, Japan has had a difficult time meeting its energy needs using renewable energy. The country may have just found its answer ...

Former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe floated the idea of Japan “sharing” in the possession of nuclear weapons, as is practiced by some NATO members, a possibility flatly rejected by Prime Minister ...

(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 ...

Japan should accelerate its efforts to revive some of the country’s dormant nuclear power plants to meet growing demand for electricity, according to the head of the International Energy Agency.

TAIPEI--Taiwan said on Tuesday it would relax a ban on Japanese food imports put in place following the 2011 Fukushima nuclear disaster, hoping to show it is a responsible partner and ease its ...

The Japan Ground Self-Defense Force will open Camp Saga in July and house its V-22 Ospreys on former farmland west of Saga ...