A Japanese-French consortium has won a $22 billion dollar contract to build a nuclear power plant on Turkey’s Black Sea coast, a senior energy ministry official said on Thursday.

Honda Automoveis do Brasil Ltda (HAB), the Honda automobile production and sales subsidiary in Brazil, on Thursday announced plans to invest in wind power generation to be more proactive in using r

A court has rejected a demand that a city affected by the fallout of the country’s 2011 nuclear disaster evacuate its children.

Some radioactive water may have leaked into the ground from a storage tank at the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, its operator said on Sunday, the latest in a series of troubles at

Weekend storms in east and west Japan claimed three lives, the latest being a man who drowned in Yakushima, Kagoshima Prefecture, police said Monday.

A major quake off the coast of central Japan could kill more than 320,000 people and cause 220 trillion yen in economic damage, a government panel said in a report that more than doubles estimates

The Japanese utility that owns the tsunami-damaged nuclear power plant said Sunday it has detected a record 740,000 becquerels per kilogram of radioactive cesium in a fish caught close to the plant

Japan’s nuclear watchdog Tuesday denied claims the country is planning to restart six reactors, just days before the second anniversary of the quake-tsunami disaster and nuclear crisis at Fukushima

A conservation group claims that Google has something in common with illicit ivory traders in China and Thailand: It says the Internet search giant is helping fuel a dramatic surge in ivory demand

The Health Ministry has announced that cases of rubella in Japan have reached a five-year high and are likely to continue to increase over the next few months.