Work to retrieve a device that fell inside the vessel of the prototype fast-breeder reactor Monju got under way in Tsuruga, Fukui Prefecture, on Thursday night.

Japan's Crown Prince Naruhito met with German Chancellor Angela Merkel at her office in Berlin on Thursday, receiving a briefing from her on the energy policy of the country, which is seeking to ab

Seven prefectural governments in western Japan launched an energy-saving campaign Wednesday, with Hyogo starting daylight saving time, Kyoto halting half its elevators and copy machines and Osaka c

A Japanese antinuclear group announced Wednesday it will convene the first of its annual meetings on nuclear weapons elimination this summer in Fukushima Prefecture, home to the crisis-hit Fukushim

The air forces of Japan and Australia will hold their first ever joint exercise in Alaska in July, Japan's Air Self-Defense Force said Wednesday, in line with a bilateral defense cooperation agreem

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