Japan will not attend a U.N. conference on the treaty banning nuclear weapons, a top government official in Tokyo said Monday ...

Japan has restarted a reactor at the world's largest nuclear plant nearly 15 years after a disaster at the Fukushima power plant forced the country to shut all its nuclear reactors. Reactor no.6 at ...

In recent years, speculation among analysts, experts, and scholars that America’s two key allies in the Indo-Pacific could finally pursue nuclear weapons has intensified. The eminent diplomat Henry ...

Protesters hold a banner during a rally in Tokyo, Japan, on November 21, 2025, after Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi criticized the country's traditional policy against nuc ...

NIIGATA, Japan, Dec 22 (Reuters) - Japan took the final step to allow the world's ‌largest nuclear power plant to resume operations with a regional vote on Monday, ‌a watershed moment in the country's ...

The operator of the Onagawa nuclear power station in Miyagi Prefecture, northeastern Japan, said that it will halt the facility's No. 2 reactor after radioactive steam was detected within its turbine ...

Beijing asks the international body to prioritise Tokyo's 'dangerous tendency to seek nuclear weapons' as regional row escalates The row between China and Japan has ratcheted up a notch, with Beijing ...

HIROSHIMA, Japan (AP) — Eighty years after the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, many of the remaining Japanese survivors are increasingly frustrated by growing nuclear threats and the ...

HIROSHIMA, Japan (AP) — Hiroshima on Wednesday marked the 80th anniversary of the U.S. atomic bombing of the western Japanese city, with many aging survivors expressing frustration about the growing ...

One year after the Fukushima nuclear crisis, Japan is facing a dilemma of how to clean up the disaster and how to meet current and future energy needs, says expert Charles D. Ferguson, even as the ...

Japan’s non-nuclear stance remains resilient due to entrenched institutional, legal and normative constraints, even as debates over extended deterrence and nuclear sharing intensify amid a ...