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April 24, 2013
Industry minister Toshimitsu Motegi on April 23 said an idled nuclear reactor could be restarted as early as autumn, the first time a Cabinet member has mentioned a timetable...
April 06, 2013
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said on April 5 that it would be "difficult" to restart the idled Fukushima No. 2 nuclear power plant, located about 12 kilometers south of the...
April 02, 2013
SEOUL--North Korea announced plans on April 2 to restart a mothballed nuclear reactor that has been closed since 2007, but emphasized it was seeking a deterrent capacity,...
March 07, 2013
Interest is fading in the weekly anti-nuclear protests near the prime minister's office that once attracted thousands of people and pressed the government to adopt a policy of...
December 20, 2012
Embattled Tokyo Electric Power Co., operator of the crippled Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant, will push for a further financial bailout from the new government taking power ...
December 20, 2012
Hopes within an anxious business community that Japan's idle nuclear power stations would be rapidly restarted will almost certainly have to be placed on the backburner despite ...
November 21, 2012
A restart may be impossible at one of Japan's idled nuclear reactors without substantial repairs, after an accident during a shutdown procedure last year in which hundreds of...
November 13, 2012
KARIWA, Niigata Prefecture--Tokyo Electric Power Co. sees no imminent resumption of operations at the world's biggest nuclear plant, shut down after last year's Fukushima...
November 10, 2012
Tokyo Electric Power Co. will be hard-pressed to post a profit in fiscal 2013 if it is unable to restart some of its nuclear reactors in the months ahead, TEPCO President Naomi ...
September 29, 2012
Whether Japan's idled reactors should resume power generation is a decision others must take, not the central government, the industry minister has said.
August 11, 2012
A rally outside Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda's office in Tokyo drew about 90,000 protesters demanding an end to the government's push to reopen nuclear power plants on Aug. 10,...
July 27, 2012
The mind-set of the management of Kansai Electric Power Co. (KEPCO) remains the same despite the March 11, 2011, disaster at the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant.
July 18, 2012
OI, Fukui Prefecture--Kansai Electric Power Co. restarted the No. 4 reactor at the Oi nuclear power plant here at 9 p.m. on July 18, marking the second of Japan's 50 idled...
July 09, 2012
The government was expected to ease its energy-saving target for the Kansai region on July 9 after the No. 3 reactor at Oi nuclear power plant in Fukui Prefecture became the...
July 02, 2012
OI, Fukui Prefecture--As scuffles broke out between riot police and protesters, Kansai Electric Power Co. removed the control rods at the No. 3 reactor of the Oi nuclear plant, ...
July 02, 2012
After being forced to evacuate her home following the accident at the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant, homemaker Hideka Mochizuki now finds herself an evacuee in Osaka and...
June 30, 2012
Thousands rallied outside the prime minister’s office in Tokyo’s Nagatacho district to protest the government's decision to restart two reactors at the Oi nuclear power...
June 23, 2012
More than 10,000 protesters gathered outside the prime minister’s office on June 22 to criticize the government’s decision to restart two nuclear reactors that had been...
June 22, 2012
People get wordy when they have something to hide. Verbosity gives away a guilty conscience.
June 18, 2012
When the Allied occupation ended with the signing of the San Francisco Peace Treaty in 1951, "gyaku kosu" (literally, "reverse course") became a well-used expression in Japan....