For Kazuaki Nagata's latest contributions to The Japan Times, see below:
In the near future, the nation’s traffic scene may be characterized by the widespread use of ultracompact cars. According to the government and automakers, this will mean lower carbon dioxide emissions, less congestion in the cities, greater mobility for the elderly and a renewed ...
International Atomic Energy Agency experts suggest that Tepco consider discharging toxic water from the Fukushima No. 1 plant into the ocean after lowering the level of radioactive materials to less than the legal limit.
Aiming to enhance the strength of Japan’s brand overseas, Cool Japan Fund, an entity run by the government and the private sector to promote Japanese culture, products and services, launched operations Monday. “We’d like to somehow help those of you who want to promote ...
Tokyo Electric Power Co. said all three systems of an advanced water processing machine known as ALPS are now in a test operations for the first time simultaneously. The advanced liquid processing system can remove all radioactive materials except for tritium from tainted water, ...
Tokyo Electric Power Co. started a yearlong operation Monday to remove hundreds of nuclear fuel assemblies stored atop reactor 4 at the Fukushima No. 1 power plant to prevent the rods from causing another radiation catastrophe. The building housing reactor 4 was hit by ...
According to the media, the e-book era in Japan began in 2010, with the debut of Apple Inc.’s iPad, Sony Corp.’s Sony Reader and other e-book services. The market has been growing, but not as fast as in the United States. In Japan, regular ...
The decades-long decommissioning of Fukushima No. 1 is about to take what Tepco says is "an important step" as it starts cleaning out the reactor 4 spent fuel pool.
Tokyo Electric Power Co. says it has found water leaks around the bottom of the containment vessel in the reactor 1 building at the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear plant, the first time leaks have been detected near or possibly in any of the three ...
Whether in stores, schools or cars, futuristic and convenient technologies made by Fujitsu Laboratories Ltd. are just around the corner. During a recent visit to the laboratory in Musashi-Nakahara, Kanagawa Prefecture, Fujitsu introduced three technologies under development — a next-generation user interface, a drowsiness ...
Aiming to boost the morale of workers at the Fukushima No. 1 plant, Tepco says it will raise wages and construct two new office buildings, including an eight-story "rest station" and food service center.
Tokyo Electric Power is refusing to reimburse the Environment Ministry for more than ¥30 billion that has been spent to decontaminate land hit by radioactive fallout from the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear plant.
Since the start of the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear plant crisis, debate has raged over whether the government should have Tokyo Electric Power Co. go bankrupt. Even though the financial crises facing Tepco are far greater than those Japan Airlines Co. faced, one question ...
