National Oct 10, 2018
Hokkaido's quake-hit Tomato-Atsuma thermal power plant goes fully operational
The last remaining unit at the plant resumed operations Wednesday, about a month after a deadly earthquake caused a prefecture-wide blackout.
National Sep 8, 2018
As rescuers dig through landslides, Hokkaido quake toll rises to 35, with another 2 presumed dead
Nine others remain unaccounted for in hard-hit town of Atsuma after an entire mountainside collapsed on their homes.
National Sep 7, 2018
Neon lights above Sapporo's famed nightlife district darkened by quake
by Dave Hueston
The neon lights of Sapporo's famed Susukino entertainment district were still off Thursday night, the area's revelers replaced by people huddled in hotel lobby entrances or queuing for water and other bare essentials following the powerful earthquake that jolted the nation's northernmost island of ...
National Oct 12, 2016
Power blackout hits 350,000 Tokyo homes, brings trains to a halt
A massive blackout cut power to as many as 580,000 households for a short period in central Tokyo on Wednesday afternoon, disrupting trains and traffic lights and bringing elevators to a halt. The blackout hit houses and office buildings in 11 of Tokyo's wards, including ...
National Dec 8, 2014
About 200 people in some 120 households in Tokushima Prefecture remained isolated Monday night as roads blocked by fallen trees and snow after heavy weekend snow had yet to be cleared. About 170 personnel from the Ground Self-Defense Force continued work to clear roads leading ...
World Sep 6, 2014
Egypt suffered a massive power outage that halted parts of the Cairo subway, took TV stations off the air and ground much of the country to a halt for several hours Thursday, as officials offered no clear explanation for how the country suddenly lost ...
National Aug 15, 2014
About 4,900 households have been hit by blackouts in Shimonoseki, Yamaguchi Prefecture, as a snake climbed up an electric pole and came in contact with a wire, Chugoku Electric Power Co. said Thursday. A utility worker found a 1-meter-long dead snake hanging from a 10-meter-high ...
Business / Economy Sep 17, 2013
Japan warned U.S. of blackout risk
by Jacob Adelman
The U.S. Department of Energy was informed by Japanese officials that the world's third-largest economy risked a catastrophic power failure as it prepared to close its last operating nuclear reactor last year. Those warnings, detailed in redacted documents released to Bloomberg by the U.S. Energy ...