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

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But now Japan is turning to atomic energy to reduce its reliance on fossil fuels, achieve carbon neutrality by 2050 and meet growing energy needs from artificial intelligence.

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

The Japanese people have just given Sanae Takaichi a super-majority in the parliament. It signals a period of great change ...

Japan's first female Prime Minister, Sanae Takaichi, brought the ruling Liberal Democratic Party its biggest-ever electoral victory, fueling her ambitions to pursue to a political agenda which she ...

Tokyo Electric Power Company has restarted unit 6 of its Kashiwazaki-Kariwa nuclear power plant in Japan's Niigata Prefecture ...

Japan restarted the Kashiwazaki-Kariwa nuclear plant on Monday after correcting an alarm-setting error, its first TEPCO reactor comeback since Fukushima.

Japan has gone to the polls in a Lower House election. Here's who won and lost in 11 key constituencies. Our site uses ...