The head of Tepco said Wednesday that the company will make a legal safety pledge — in response to a request by the nation's nuclear watchdog — as it seeks approval to restart reactors at its Kashiwazaki-Kariwa plant in Niigata Prefecture. Tomoaki Kobayakawa, president of ...
The NRA holds off certifying the safety of two idle reactors at Tepco’s Kashiwazaki-Kariwa nuclear plant in Niigata Prefecture, citing a lack of debate on specific safety measures.
Former Niigata Gov. Hirohiko Izumida said Friday he intends to run with Liberal Democratic Party backing in next month's by-election to represent the Niigata No. 5 district in the Lower House. Izumida told senior local LDP members of his intention to run for the seat, ...
As downpours hit several areas of eastern Japan, renewed threat of heavy rain in Kyushu interrupts ongoing search for missing
A memorial service was held Sunday in Niigata Prefecture to mark the 10th anniversary of the deadly earthquake that killed 15 people and left more than 2,300 injured in the region that hosts the world's largest nuclear power plant. At the ceremony, jointly hosted by ...
When North Korea test-fired a missile on Tuesday morning, officials from communities near the Sea of Japan worked quickly to gather information and confirm the safety of fishing vessels. Amid torrential rain, officials from Tsubame, Niigata Prefecture were collecting information on the missile launch. Officials ...
Masanobu Ota, a farmer in Ureshino, Saga Prefecture, and his wife Etsuko, married last year thanks to the help of a matchmaker — the prefectural government. Masanobu, 28, met Etsuko, 38, at a konkatsu (spouse-hunting) event held by the Saga Prefectural Government in November 2015. ...
Niigata Gov. Ryuichi Yoneyama asks the central government to recommend that the legacies of gold and silver mining in the prefecture and their related facilities be candidates for World Cultural Heritage status.
The U.N. Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization has added the Tone River basin north of Tokyo and a mountain range in the country's southwest to its list of biosphere reserves, the government learned Wednesday. As of March last year, 669 areas in 120 countries were ...
As demographic changes make it increasingly hard for rural men to find partners, authorities in Niigata Prefecture have begun holding matchmaking events in which women from far afield are invited to meet a potential mate in one of Japan's major agricultural regions. On a morning ...
Representatives of Tokyo Electric on Monday began visiting about 41,000 households around its idled nuclear plant in Niigata Prefecture to apologize for withholding vital safety information about a facility there. The utility, which also runs the meltdown-hit Fukushima No. 1 power plant, is pushing to ...
An evacuation drill will be held in the city of Tsubame, Niigata Prefecture, next month, under the scenario that a ballistic missile has fallen near the central Japan prefecture, Jiji Press learned Tuesday. This is believed to be the first such drill in a prefecture ...
