Tokyo Electric Power Co. announced on March 13 that it will halt power generation and transmission at the No. 6 reactor of ...

Plans to put a nuclear power plant in Japan's Niigata Prefecture back into commercial use for the first time in years have ...

Travelers to Japan should consider a side trip to shop and eat in Niigata, one of the country’s most rewarding food ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Reactor buildings unit one (L, rear) through unit four (R) pictured Feb. 2015 at Tokyo Electric Power Co.'s Kashiwazaki Kariwa ...

TOKYO, March 21 (Reuters) - The governor of Japan's Niigata prefecture, Hideyo Hanazumi, said on Thursday more talks were needed over the possible restart of the Kashiwazaki-Kariwa nuclear power plant ...

NIIGATA, Japan, Dec 22 (Reuters) - The Japanese region of Niigata is expected to endorse a decision to restart the world's largest nuclear power plant on Monday, a watershed moment in the country's ...

While in Uonuma no Sato, you can try a cup of snow-aged coffee at the Yukimuro Coffee adjacent to the brewery’s yukimuro. Elsewhere, in the prefecture’s capital, Niigata City, Suzuki Coffee operates a ...

After losing key organizers and the death of its founder, the festival wasn’t sure it could go on. Instead of going dark, however, NIAFF rebuilt from scratch.

TOKYO >> This year marks 20 years since the endemic Japanese crested ibis, or toki, was declared extinct in Japan. A program to artificially breed toki provided by China and release them into the wild ...

Japanese energy company INPEX Corporation announced that the LNG Tanker Oceanic Breeze called for the first time at INPEX’s Naoetsu LNG Terminal located in Joetsu City, Niigata Prefecture, Japan.The ...

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