A Japanese court ruled Friday [Sept. 22] that a utility, not the government, should pay compensation to dozens of former...
Articles by Mari Yamaguchi
The damage from an overnight earthquake in a mountainous area of central Japan that hosted the 1998 winter Olympics proved...
A tropical storm was moving out into the Sea of Japan on Sunday after lashing the country with rain and...
Crews were cleaning up wrecked houses and assessing damage Tuesday in the wake of a powerful typhoon that lashed Japan...
Japan’s nuclear watchdog announced Wednesday that the nation’s trouble-plagued next-generation test reactor will not be allowed to restart due to...
Two years after the triple calamities of earthquake, tsunami and nuclear disaster ravaged Japan’s northeastern Pacific coast, debris containing asbestos,...
Japan’s Cabinet approved bills Tuesday aimed at bolstering nuclear safety regulations following last year’s Fukushima disaster, including one that would...
A new study is warning that the Tokyo region has a 70 percent chance of being hit directly by a...
Six more workers at Japan’s tsunami-damaged nuclear power plant may have exceeded the radiation exposure limit, bringing the total to...
Japan’s vulnerability to natural disasters is increasing as skyscrapers mushroom in cities, shopping malls go underground and the population ages,...