Grieving father runs race, trains for it in places where he and his late family members used to play together.

Thousands of families lost their homes when the 7.6 magnitude earthquake struck Japan's remote Noto peninsula on New Year's Day. Children in the affected areas need food and shelter and basic support ...

The government, its makeup in flux after the governing party lost seats this week, will soon need to make decisions that will ...

Reactor is restarted for the first time since disaster after safety upgrade, as government pursues renewed expansion of ...

Concern about the government's revived push for nuclear energy grew after a magnitude 7.5 earthquake hit Japan's Noto Peninsula on Jan. 1, 2024, killing more than 400 people and damaging more than ...

A Japanese nuclear reactor that withstood the 2011 earthquake and tsunami that devastated the Fukushima Daiichi plant has ...

A Japanese nuclear reactor that restarted last week for the first time in more than 13 years after it survived a massive ...

Voters in Ishikawa Prefecture, struck by a strong earthquake on the Noto Peninsula on New Year's Day, are calling for government support for swift reconstruction, but some have lamented that "now is ...

Epic, killer quakes are engrained in Japanese history. On Jan. 1, a magnitude 7.5 earthquake shook the Noto Peninsula on western Honshu, the largest main island, collapsing buildings, buckling ...

In November 2023 Ishikawa Prefecture held a nuclear disaster drill, recalls science writer Takashi Soeda for the magazine ...

Despite reassurances, public concerns remain high about nuclear energy's safety, especially after a magnitude 7.5 earthquake ...