13 December 2016, Tokyo - Major components installed in all Japanese nuclear power reactors are at risk of catastrophic failure, due to potentially flawed manufacturing and quality controls exercises at the forging stages, technical assessment...

14 February 2017, Tokyo - Toshiba’s reporting of a multibillion loss exposes the complete failure of Prime Minister Abe’s nuclear policy. Since coming into power in 2012, exporting nuclear reactors worldwide has been a priority for the Abe...

Tokyo, 21 February 2017 - The Japanese government will soon lift evacuation orders for 6,000 citizens of iitate village in Fukushima prefecture where radiation levels in nearby forests are comparable to the current levels within the Chernobyl...

Tokyo, 7 March 2017 – Japan’s policy to resettle residents to heavily contaminated areas in Fukushima is in contravention of Japanese law and multiple international human rights treaties. Greenpeace Japan and Human Rights Now detailed today...

Tokyo, 11 March 2017 - Greenpeace today commemorates the more than 15,000 people who died six years ago in the Great East Japan earthquake and tsunami, and the tens of thousands of survivors of the ongoing Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster.

28 March 2017 – Today, the Osaka High Court caved to Kansai Electric Power Company (KEPCO) in overturning an injunction barring the restart of the Takahama 3&4 nuclear reactors in Fukui Prefecture. On 9 March 2016, the Otsu District Court issued...

Tokyo, 29 March 2017 – The board of Westinghouse’s parent company, Toshiba, today approved the filing of Chapter 11 bankruptcy for its drowning U.S. company – a defining moment in the decades-long downward spiral of the global nuclear power industry.

Tokyo, 30 March 2017 – Today, Greenpeace Japan submitted comments to the United Nations Human Rights Council Universal Periodic Review[1] charging the Japanese government of deliberate human rights violations as a result of Fukushima resettlement...

Tokyo, 17 May 2017 – Today the Takahama 4 nuclear reactor in Fukui Prefecture was restarted, despite significant unresolved safety issues that place millions at undue risk. The restart comes after an injunction barring the operation of the...