Japan's government scraps its troubled Monju fast-breeder prototype nuclear reactor, but plans to build a similar reacto...

Japan's space agency launches the Epsilon-2 rocket into space with a radiation probe aboard.

Self Defense Force troopers clean the world heritage Himeji Castle ahead of 2017.

Japan's government will directly fund work to decontaminate areas around the stricken Fukushima nuclear plant, reversin...