Over the past two months, hardly a week has passed without news of another North Korean missile launch. It's become routine: An early morning South Korean media report, based on government sources, says that "an object has been launched," forcing politicians, bureaucrats, and journalists ...
Officials in Tsuruga, Fukui Prefecture, attempting to promote their city as a tourist destination, received a rude shock recently when a survey showed its image was less one of natural beauty and fresh seafood and more one of being a center for nuclear power. In ...
A dead man found floating Tuesday off Fukui Prefecture in the Sea of Japan had badges on his clothes bearing the images of late North Korean leaders Kim Il Sung and his son, Kim Jong Il, the Japan Coast Guard said. At around 9:30 a.m. ...
Once envisioned in a key role of the fuel-recycling policy, the controversial Monju reactor is scrapped by the government.
The Wakasa Road is a historical trail that helped advance Japan's culture and cuisine. The Wakasa region of Fukui Prefecture, on the nation's west coast, was one of the strategic miketsukuni regions of Japan that produced food for the emperor in ancient times. Wakasa-mono from ...
Japan's nuclear watchdog gave approval Wednesday for the nation's third reactor to operate beyond the mandated 40-year maximum life span as the enforcement of limits introduced after the Fukushima disaster continues to weaken. The No. 3 unit at Kansai Electric Power Co.'s Mihama plant in ...
Another unintentional side effect of "Pokemon Go" fever has emerged — and it's not in the form of traffic violations or accidents. Instead, the smartphone app is playing a positive role at one of the nation's notorious suicide spots, discouraging people from killing themselves. The atmosphere ...
Toshimitsu Motegi, chairman of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party's Policy Research Council, on Friday called for decommissioning the Monju prototype fast-breeder nuclear reactor in central Japan as a cost-effective step for the troubled facility. In an interview, Motegi said that he cannot think of any ...
News that the central government is finalizing plans to decommission the Monju fast-breeder reactor in Fukui Prefecture has sparked anger and fear among local politicians about what will happen to their economy, and could make Fukui's cooperation in restarting other reactors more complicated. In Tsuruga, ...
Two more reactors at the Takahama nuclear power plant in Fukui Prefecture are expected to clear safety screening by regulators in the near future, but hurdles remain for them to restart, sources said Thursday. The Nuclear Regulation Authority almost concluded the safety screening Thursday, and ...
Kansai Electric fires up a reactor at the Takahama plant in Fukui despite misgivings about the region’s ability to respond to a nuclear accident.
Kansai Electric Power Co. said Friday it has started loading nuclear fuel into a reactor on the Sea of Japan following a court decision to lift an injunction against the move, paving the way for its restart in late January, which would be the ...
