Taro Kono's appointment as the new foreign minister is raising eyebrows. Though he hasn't shown any indication that he will buck Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's agenda, Kono is considered a leftish maverick within the Liberal Democratic Party, especially with regard to its nuclear energy ...
The auditor of Toshiba Corp. has informed the struggling electronics and appliance maker it plans to issue either an "adverse opinion" or a "qualified opinion" about its financial statements for fiscal 2016, according to informed sources. Toshiba, facing delisting, plans to push for the "qualified ...
Events in South Korea demonstrate how public pressure can play a key role in changing a country's energy policy.
Utility EDF's Flamanville 3 nuclear reactor in northwest France has been cleared by a group of experts for start-up despite weak spots in its steel, confirming the findings of the ASN nuclear regulator, a source close to the situation told Reuters. Completion of the third ...
The 1987 nuclear-free act was a milestone in New Zealand's development as a nation.
The Diet on Wednesday endorsed the controversial Japan-India civil nuclear cooperation agreement that will allow the nation’s firms to export nuclear materials and technology to India for nonmilitary use.
By supporting new generations of renewable-energy startups Prime Minister Shinzo Abe could create the millions of high-paying jobs that have eluded his Abenomics push.
More than six years after the March 11, 2011, Tohoku quake, tsunami, and triple meltdown at the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant, Japan is accelerating efforts to restart as many reactors as it possibly can. Four have been revived so far, and Kansai ...
The civil nuclear cooperation pact between Japan and India does not carry a provision to limit the use of Japanese nuclear plant technology to nonmilitary areas.
A 32-year-old man was arrested early Thursday for launching a pair of PET bottle rockets toward the Takahama nuclear power plant in Gifu Prefecture, local police said. Masaru Kawai, an unemployed resident of Ogaki, has admitted launching the rockets toward the premises of Kansai Electric ...
A civilian nuclear cooperation pact between Japan and India cleared the Lower House on Tuesday, paving the way for Tokyo to export nuclear power equipment and technology to the fast-growing economy not part of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty. As the Lower House takes precedence in ...
Six years ago in March, a firefighter in the town of Namie in Fukushima Prefecture couldn't save tsunami victims in the wake of the Great East Japan Earthquake, because he himself had to evacuate due to the nuclear crisis at the Fukushima No. 1 ...
