China will suspend Japanese seafood imports, media in Tokyo reported Wednesday, as a row sparked by comments about Taiwan deepens, although neither government confirmed the move. The uneasy neighbours ...

China has warned there is “no market” for Japanese seafood exports, the latest veiled threat from Beijing as its diplomatic spat with Tokyo escalates over recent comments by Japan’s leader on ...

Niigata Gov. Hideyo Hanazumi plans to approve the restart of a nuclear reactor, northwest of Tokyo, making it the first for ...

TOKYO -- Tokyo Electric Power Co.'s nuclear plant in Niigata prefecture, central Japan, is expected to receive approval from ...

TOKYO -- Tokyo Electric Power Co.'s nuclear plant in Niigata prefecture, central Japan, is expected to receive approval from ...

A fire has ripped through more than 170 buildings and killed one person in a southern Japanese coastal city, with military ...

Is the aim of this system to prepare for situations in which the functions of the central government’s ministries and agencies and other entities are lost due to large-scale disasters? Or is the ...

But the disaster did not end with water. The waves crippled the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Plant, causing reactor meltdowns, ...

Evacuation drills to transport residents to safety by sea and air due to a nuclear plant accident have been canceled more ...

Skip the usual Tokyo, Osaka and Kyoto haunts and head instead to Chiba Prefecture for a trip to Japan that's off the beaten ...

Conventional borehole backfilling suffers from various technical limitations, making infrastructure demolition and renewal difficult. In an innovative development, researchers from Shibaura Institute ...

Baumkuchen originated in Germany but has become a wildly popular sweet in Japan, where a prisoner of war on a small western ...