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The consumption tax increase next April will hit every household in Japan hard, with many people's financial future hanging on whether their wages rise enough to offset the impact of the hike, experts say.
Every parent is all too familiar with The Tantrum. The screaming, the flailing arms, the angry head butting — and the timing (normally in the most inconvenient public place possible).
International events undermine Japan's democracy. Shame on the International Olympic Committee for being a party to it.
Tucked away behind the main museums in Ueno, the Tokyo University Art Museum may not be on most people’s radar, but it is definitely one of the city’s top museums in terms of curatorial quality. Whenever I go there, I am always delighted by ...
Francisco Liriano showed up at PNC Park on Tuesday afternoon in a suit with his suitcase packed for a trip St. Louis. The message reverberated through the Pittsburgh Pirates clubhouse. After 21 years away from the playoffs, it was time for the best story ...
Tokyo Electric Power Co.'s apparent inept handling of the triple-meltdown crisis at its Fukushima No. 1 atomic plant may foreclose on its bid to restart two idled reactors in Niigata Prefecture, the Nuclear Regulation Authority chief indicates.
With Sunday's shutdown of Kansai Electric Power Co.'s Oi No. 4 reactor for regular safety inspections, Japan will be without nuclear power for the first time since July 2012.
A team of experts from the Nuclear Regulation Authority finished its second study Wednesday of underground crush zones at Tohoku Electric Power Co.’s Higashidori nuclear power plant to determine if they are active faults. The nuclear watchdog has so far kept unchanged its earlier ...
The Fukushima No. 1 power plant's continued pollution of the Pacific is fueling growing domestic and international concern about radiation hazards, clouding plans by utilities and the government to quickly restart a dozen reactors.
Tokyo Electric Power Co.’s inexact monitoring of contaminated water stored at Fukushima No. 1 may have led the company to overstate last week’s storage tank leak, according to the Nuclear Regulation Authority. The loss of 300 metric tons that Tepco reported was based on ...
The Nuclear Regulation Authority raises the severity assessment of a recent radioactive water leak incident at the Fukushima No. 1 power plant to level 3 on an international scale.
The Nuclear Regulation Authority proposes raising the severity status of the recent radioactive water leak from a tank at the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear plant to level 3 from 1 on the International Nuclear and Radiological Event Scale (INES).
Citizens’ groups and lawmakers urged the government Thursday to bring the reactor restart evaluation process to a halt and put all efforts and resources into containing the groundwater flow contaminating the Pacific at the Fukushima No. 1 plant. Ten activist groups, including Greenpeace Japan ...
Inspectors from the Nuclear Regulation Authority on Sunday wrapped up their third seismic survey of the Oi nuclear power plant in Fukui Prefecture. Deputy NRA chief Kunihiko Shimazaki, who participated in the two-day survey, said the new regulator will carefully evaluate whether a crush ...
The Nuclear Regulation Authority will suspend safety checks for two nuclear reactors run by Hokkaido Electric Power Co. because the utility’s applications were far from adequate. Hokkaido Electric is “clearly unprepared” for checks to be carried out on reactors 1 and 2 at its ...
A team of experts appointed by the Nuclear Regulation Authority starts a two-day investigation on the activity of geologic faults running beneath the Monju prototype fast-breeder reactor in Fukui Prefecture.
Japan Atomic Power files a petition to revoke the Nuclear Regulation Authority's instruction to assess how spent-fuel assemblies would be affected by movement in a fault that runs under one of its reactors at the Tsuruga nuclear plant in Fukui Prefecture.