Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings, Inc. has announced that it will consider decommissioning the Nos. 1 and 2 reactors of its Kashiwazaki-Kariwa nuclear power plant in Niigata Prefecture as part of ...

Tohoku Electric Power Co. said Friday it will likely shut down the No. 2 reactor at the Onagawa nuclear power plant in Miyagi ...

Former Japanese Prime Minister Tomiichi Murayama, best known for making a statement apologizing over World War II, died Friday aged 101, officials said. Murayama issued the 1995 proclamation on the ...

(Bloomberg Opinion) -- On a Wednesday evening in October 1995 at 6:30 p.m. in Tokyo, animation changed forever.

TOKYO] Days after the jubilant highs of becoming the Liberal Democratic Party’s (LDP) first woman leader, Sanae Takaichi was ...

The exhibition, Looks Delicious! at Japan House in Hollywood, offers a deep dive into the world of food replica culture, or ...

These five countries have dealt with over 100 major earthquakes each since 1990, making them the most earthquake-prone ...

Former Japanese Prime Minister Tomiichi Murayama has died at age 101 in his home city of Oito. He was prime minister from ...

TOKYO - Former Japanese Prime Minister Tomiichi Murayama has died at the age of 101, local media reported.

Tomiichi Murayama, Japan's prime minister from 1994, was best known for the "Murayama Statement," an apology delivered on the ...