A thick layer of slippery clay on the ocean floor may have formed the weak spot that enabled a magnitude 9.1 quake to make such a devastating tsunami.

TOKYO -- Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO) has resumed power generation and transmission to the grid from its Kashiwazaki-Kariwa nuclear plant in Niigata prefecture, central Japan.

Japan has restarted a reactor at the Kashiwazaki-Kariwa plant after a 14-year shutdown, marking a pivotal shift back toward nuclear power to strengthen energy security, curb fossil fuel imports, and ...

Japan's Tepco has restarted the Kashiwazaki-Kariwa unit 6 reactor, marking its first nuclear restart since the Fukushima ...

Just three weeks after Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing (NYSE:TSM) delivered fourth-quarter results that beat estimates and reaffirmed the durability of AI demand, the world’s leading contract chip ...

The world's biggest nuclear power plant is again operating, after an earlier attempt to bring the facility back online was ...

TOKYO – Japan switched on the world’s biggest nuclear power plant again on Monday, its operator said, after an earlier ...

Sanae Takaichi, Japan’s first female prime minister, harnessed her personal popularity and a shift to the right among voters ...

Takaichi’s decision to hold a snap election just months after her glass-breaking rise to power paid off as her Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) secured 316 of the 465 seats in the parliament’s lower ...

Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi won a sweeping mandate from voters for her economic agenda and tough stances on immigration and ...

The biggest waves produced in the ocean – at least that we know of – max out around the triple digit range. Although nobody has officially surfed the 100-foot wave yet, that threshold is soon to be ...

Japan has begun a phased restart of the world’s largest nuclear power plant, Kashiwazaki-Kariwa, following approval from local authorities for a partial restart of reactors 6 and 7. Kashiwazaki-Kariwa ...