Japan has identified Minamitorishima, a remote and uninhabited coral atoll in the western Pacific, as a potential site for permanent nuclear waste disposal. The proposal marks the first time the ...

Japan has resumed operations at the world’s largest nuclear power plant to help the country meet huge electricity demands during a global oil crisis, but the reboot highlights a big problem: Japan is ...

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Billions of dirty diapers end up buried or burned every year in Japan—more from seniors than babies—but a recycling breakthrough has given them a new lease on life, one hot mess at a time. A pilot ...

Japan is proposing a remote Pacific island as a possible host for a nuclear waste-disposal site, an important step in the country’s plans to accelerate the restart of atomic power plants. The local ...

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The World Bank’s Tokyo Development Learning Center (TDLC), in collaboration with the Indonesia Local Service Delivery and Improvement Project (LSDP) task team, organized a five-day exposure mission to ...

Drawing on data from 217 countries and economies and 262 cities, the report estimates that the world generated around 2.6 ...

KASHIWAZAKI, Japan (AP) — Japan has resumed operations at the world’s largest nuclear power plant to help the country meet huge electricity demands during a global oil crisis, but the reboot ...

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