Decontamination suspended at Fukushima Daiichi
Tokyo Electric Power Company has been forced to shut down a system to purify contaminated water at the Fukushima Daiichi...
read moreCourt freezes restart of 2 reactors
A district court in Fukui Prefecture has ordered Kansai Electric Power Company to freeze the restart of two reactors at ...
read moreKansai Electric appeals nuclear restart ban
A power utility in Japan is appealing a court’s ban against it restarting a nuclear plant.A district judge yesterday blo...
read moreImperial couple visits Ashio mine
Japan’s Imperial couple today visited a mine that was once one of Japan’s most toxic sites.The Ashio Copper Mine heavily...
read moreAbe sets ambitious childcare goals
Japan’s prime minister wants to boost the number of after-school childcare workers by 300,000 people in five years’ time...
read moreSDF drills to defend disputed islands
Japan’s Self-Defense Force held its first serious drill to defend the disputed Senkaku islands today.China also claims t...
read moreRiot police march in Tokyo
Nearly 2,000 Japanese riot police marched early this morning (Thursday) in central Tokyo.Special-purpose vehicles and po...
read moreCourt upholds Atsugi noise pollution claim
A court in Japan has banned night flights by Japan’s Self-Defense Forces at a base shared by the US and Japanese militar...
read moreRecord trade deficits continue
Japan posted a trade deficit for the month of April, for its 22nd consecutive month in the red. Japan’s Finance Ministry...
read moreJapanese court ruling freezes nuclear reactor restarts
The Japanese government’s drive to put nuclear plants back online has suffered a setback. A district court has blocked t...
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