The Japanese government is considering explicitly stating an exception to its long-standing non-nuclear principles in an ...

Japan’s long-standing status as a non-nuclear power is under fresh scrutiny after a report argued that the country could assemble its own nuclear weapons within roughly three years. The claim has ...

Japan insists its longstanding nuclear weapons policy remains unchanged, even as officials consider a historic shift that could allow American nuclear weapons onto Japanese territory amid growing ...

One year after the nuclear accident at the Fukushima Daiichi plant in Japan, caused by a devastating earthquake and tsunami, the country has shut down nearly all its nuclear plants over safety ...

Japan's Three Non-Nuclear Principles stipulate that the country will not possess, produce, or permit the introduction of nuclear weapons. The current National Security Strategy, one of the country's ...

The United Nations has adopted a draft resolution submitted by Japan calling for efforts to create a world without nuclear ...

The number of survivors of the U.S. atomic attacks on Hiroshima and Nagasaki is dwindling 80 years later, but they are ...

JS Sogei, the sixth Taigei-class diesel-electric submarine, entered the water in a ceremony held at KHI’s shipyard in Kobe City, Japan, Oct. 14, 2025. Yet Japan has been here before. Parliamentary ...

After the arrest of a yakuza boss for his alleged role in supplying workers to TEPCO’s Fukushima Daichi Nuclear Plant, we are learning the details of how Japan’s nuclear industry relied on organized ...

Japan intends to replace aging nuclear reactors to reduce the country’s dependence on fossil fuels, a vulnerability exposed by the Middle East crisis, but electric utilities remain cautious about the ...