Japan’s nuclear odyssey comes full circle 15 years after Fukushima with restart of world’s largest plant

The Kashiwazaki-Kariwa Nuclear Power Plant shares the same operator as the crippled Fukushima Daiichi plant. Read more at ...
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Scientists unearth clues to understand what made the 2011 tsunami in Japan so massive

The fault that produced the earthquake lies between two pieces of hard rock sandwiching a slippery clay layer, allowing for ...

Hidden clay intensified 2011 Japan megaquake, study confirms

An international research expedition involving Cornell has uncovered new details as to why a 2011 earthquake northeast of ...

Japan's fossil fuel power output sinks again on nuclear rebound

One of the world's largest oil, gas and coal importers - Japan - has cut fossil fuel electricity generation to the lowest ...

Japan lifts megaquake advisory but urges caution a week after magnitude 7.5 temblor

Japan is lifting a megaquake advisory for the country’s northeastern coast, a week after a magnitude 7.5 earthquake struck ...

Year-old earthquake footage misrepresented as showing Japan's December 2025 tremor

After Japan's northern coast was rocked by a magnitude 7.5 quake on December 8, videos purportedly showing the impact of the ...

Map: 6.7-Magnitude Earthquake Strikes Off Japan

A strong, 6.7-magnitude earthquake struck in the North Pacific Ocean on Friday, according to the United States Geological Survey. The temblor happened at 11:44 a.m. Japan time about 71 miles northeast ...

A 6.9 magnitude earthquake causes small tsunami waves off northeastern Japan

A 6.9 magnitude earthquake shook northeastern Japan and caused small tsunami waves but no apparent damage Friday, days after ...

Japan is under a megaquake watch. What does this mean?

Japan is learning what life is life under a megaquake watch. NPR's Rob Schmitz talks to Richard Allen, director of the Berkeley Seismology Lab, about what it means.