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...

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

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...

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...

Tokyo, 20 June 2016 – Today, Japan’s Nuclear Regulatory Authority (NRA) has made its biggest regulatory failure to date by disregarding the post-Fukushima law on aging reactors in order to allow Kansai Electric Power Company (KEPCO) to meet a...

Ise-Shima, May 27 2016 - The Ise-Shima G7 Leaders’ Communique[1] does not reflect the urgency of the crisis we face, nor is it consistent with the momentum around the world since the Paris Agreement. Clearly Japan has held back the rest of the...

Tokyo, 26 May 2016 - World leaders in Japan for the G7 Summit must use the opportunity to build on last year’s commitment to decarbonise the global economy over the course of this century, says Greenpeace. Since then the Paris Agreement has been...

Tokyo, 17 May 2016 - Massive plans to expand Japan’s coal-fired power plants will cause at least 10,000 premature deaths nationally and the power plants would emit as much toxic air pollution as 21 million passenger cars, according to the first...

Tokyo, 20 April 2016 – Today, Japan’s Nuclear Regulatory Authority (NRA) took another step toward approving the aged Takahama 1 & 2 reactors for restart by rubber stamping Kansai Electric Power Company’s (KEPCO) restart assessment months before...

Citizen Legal Challenge Filed against Oldest Kansai Electric Nuclear Reactors, Tokyo, 14 April 2016 - Today, citizens and residents threatened by the potential restart of the Kansai Electric Power Company’s (KEPCO) Takahama 1&2 reactors,...