TOKYO >> More than 20,000 communities in Japan could be cut off from the rest of the country by a major disaster, according to research by The Yomiuri Shimbun.

The operator of a nuclear power plant in central Japan received whistleblower reports regarding alleged manipulation of quake-resista ...

ASX uranium stocks are back in focus as global economies embrace nuclear power for clean, reliable and affordable energy.

Scientists have documented elephants breaking chains to flee inland and hibernating snakes emerging in winter before major earthquakes, yet most of us dismiss our pets' strange behavior as mere quirks ...

A thin, soft and slippery layer of clay-rich mud embedded in rock below the seafloor intensified the 2011 Japan earthquake ...

Debris and mud cover a city in Japan flattened by a massive tsunami in March 2011, caused by the energy released by a ...

One of the surviving reactors at the Kashiwazaki-Kariwa plant was loaded with fuel last summer and recently turned back on, ...

Japan may have its first woman Prime Minister, but in the business community, breaking down decades of entrenched resistance ...

Any Japanese intervention to prop up the yen will have limited effect in sustainably halting the currency's slide, former ...

Any Japanese government intervention to support the yen is unlikely to have a lasting impact unless it is backed by strong fiscal discipline and credible monetary policy, according to former Finance ...

The setback occurred hours after one of the world’s largest nuclear complexes restarted, ending more than a decade of ...

The restart of the world's largest nuclear power plant was suspended in Japan Thursday just hours after the process began, ...