28 June 2016, Kobe – Today, calling out the Japanese nuclear village for gambling on nuclear safety with risky and expensive nuclear reactors, Greenpeace staged a grand dice game outside the Kansai Electric Power Company’s (KEPCO) Annual General...

Nagoya, 13 July 2016 – Today, the legal battle to stop the restart of the KEPCO’s aging Takahama 1&2 reactors will formally begin with the first hearing before the Nagoya District Court. The case argues that Japan’s Nuclear Regulatory Authority...

Radiation along Fukushima rivers up to 200 times higher than Pacific Ocean seabed - Greenpeace

Japan’s nuclear regulator admits it is unable to do its job, approves Mihama 3 safety anyway Tokyo, 3 August 2016 – Today, the Nuclear Regulatory Authority approved the safety assessment of the Mihama 3 reactor, despite admitting on the 20th...

5 September 2016, Tokyo - Today, Greenpeace Japan sent an open letter to Kyushu Electric CEO Michiaki Uriu condemning the utility’s rejection of the Kagoshima Governor’s request for a temporary halt of the Sendai 1&2 reactors, pending seismic...

5 October 2016, Tokyo – Today, Japan’s Nuclear Regulation Authority (NRA) has again exposed itself as industry-captured by giving the Mihama 3 reactor owned by Kansai Electric Power Company (KEPCO) a green light under post-Fukushima guidelines --...

25 October 2016, Tokyo – The safety and regulation of the Japanese nuclear fleet is called into serious question by the discovery of Japanese-manufactured flawed steel components installed in operating French nuclear reactors forced to shut down...

1 November 2016, Tokyo - Documents on the carbon steel crisis submitted by Japan’s nuclear utilities to the Nuclear Regulation Authority (NRA) (1) are inadequate and unconvincing, Greenpeace Japan claimed today. The eleven power companies were...

Tokyo/New Delhi, 10 November 2016 --The signing of the Nuclear Cooperation Agreement between Japan and India, will not save Westinghouse/Toshiba’s failing nuclear business, nor will it deliver safe energy for the people of India. Instead, it will...