A group comprising Japanese NGO members and students has launched a campaign urging the government to join the UN Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons.
The group made the announcement in an online event on Friday. Its members are asking Diet legislators and prefectural governors if they favor the treaty. Their views will then be published online.
A task force is examining reactions from local residents to the Japanese government's plan on how to dispose of the radioactive wastewater stored at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant that was hit by the 2011 earthquake and tsunami.
Economy, Trade and Industry Minister Kajiyama Hiroshi has reiterated his intention to decide on the disposal plan soon, so that the scrapping of the plant will not be delayed.
Another municipality in Japan has decided to take part in the first stage of a government process to select a final disposal site for high-level radioactive waste.
The mayor of Kamoenai Village in the northern prefecture of Hokkaido announced the decision to accept the so-called literature survey on Friday.
A town in the northernmost Japanese prefecture of Hokkaido has applied for the first-stage survey for the government's selection of a final disposal site for nuclear waste.
The mayor of Suttsu, Kataoka Haruo, submitted the application to the Nuclear Waste Management Organization of Japan, or NUMO, in Tokyo on Friday.
A town in the northernmost Japanese prefecture of Hokkaido says it has decided to apply for a first stage survey by the government for selecting a final disposal site for high-level radioactive waste from nuclear power plants.
Suttsu Town is now to be the first municipality to apply for the survey since the government released in 2017 a map showing areas deemed suitable in scientific terms to host such sites underground.
The first public museum which seeks to pass along the legacies of the 2011 nuclear accident opens on Sunday in Fukushima Prefecture, northeastern Japan.
The Great East Japan Earthquake and Nuclear Disaster Memorial Museum is located in Futaba Town, where an evacuation advisory was partially lifted in March.
Japanese industrial giant Hitachi is pulling the plug on construction of a nuclear power plant in Britain.
Hitachi says its board of directors decided on Wednesday to withdraw from the project on the island of Anglesey in Wales.
The head of the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons, or ICAN, has urged Japan to launch discussions on whether to join the UN Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons.
ICAN won the 2017 Nobel Peace Prize for its contribution to the adoption of the treaty.
A survey conducted by NHK's Hiroshima bureau has found that about 70 percent of young Americans think that nuclear weapons are unnecessary.
The station conducted an online survey this year on three groups of people between the ages of 18 and 34, ahead of the 75th anniversary of the US atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
Reactions are mixed on the decision by nuclear regulators to give the green light to complete the construction of a nuclear fuel reprocessing plant in Rokkasho Village, Aomori Prefecture.
Masuda Naohiro, the president of the plant's operator, Japan Nuclear Fuel Limited, said it is a major step toward fulfilling its mission. He says the company aims to have the facility operating in a reliable and safe manner.
Japan's nuclear regulators have given a firm the green light to complete the construction of a fuel reprocessing plant, which is the centerpiece of the government's nuclear fuel recycling policy.
The plant in Aomori Prefecture, northeastern Japan, is operated by Japan Nuclear Fuel Limited. The facility is designed to extract plutonium for recycling from spent nuclear fuel generated by power plants.
The operator of a nuclear power plant in southwestern Japan has suspended one of its reactors as it cannot meet the deadline for building mandatory facilities to deal with emergencies.
Kyushu Electric Power Company began work to reduce output at the No.1 reactor at the Sendai plant in Kagoshima Prefecture at 2:30 a.m. on Monday. The reactor went offline at 1:01 p.m.
The operator of a nuclear power plant in southwestern Japan will suspend one of its reactors on Monday, as it cannot meet the deadline for building mandatory facilities to deal with emergencies.
Kyushu Electric Power Company began work to reduce output at the No.1 reactor at the Sendai plant in Kagoshima Prefecture at 2:30 a.m. on Monday.
Japan's nuclear regulator has officially approved an assessment of a nuclear reactor in an area devastated by the 2011 earthquake and tsunami.
The Nuclear Regulation Authority compiled an assessment that allows Tohoku Electric Power Company to restart its No.2 reactor at the Onagawa plant in Miyagi Prefecture.