Tokyo, 5 June 2018 - Greenpeace Japan welcomes the Sumitomo Corporation’s announcement made on Friday 1 June, saying they are abandoning a plan to build a coal-fired power plant in Sendai, Japan.

Niigata, June 10 2018 - The plans of Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings (TEPCO) for early restart of two reactors at Kashiwazaki Kariwa remain uncertain with the election of the new Governor of Niigata prefecture, Greenpeace Japan stated.

June 21, 2018 Tokyo, Japan — On June 18, Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation (SMBC) announced its “policy towards financing businesses with potentially significant adverse environmental and/or social impact” including coal-fired power, palm oil...

June 15 2018 Tokyo, Japan -- On June 13, Mizuho Financial Group (Mizuho) announced its adoption of a new "sector specific policy” on responsible financing. Japanese environmental groups ー 350.org Japan, Japan Center for a Sustainable Environment...

Tokyo, April 9, 2018 - 350.org Japan, joined by Rainforest Action Network (RAN) and Greenpeace Japan, drew attention to Japanese banks' persistent coal financing through a series of announcements ahead of the Responsible Investor Asia 2018 (RI...

Tokyo, 1 December 2017 – On 30 November, Kansai Electric and Kyushu Electric announced that they are delaying the restart of four nuclear reactors for approximately two months due to ongoing investigations into Kobe Steel components. Greenpeace...

Tokyo, 1 March 2018 - A comprehensive survey by Greenpeace Japan in the towns of Iitate and Namie in Fukushima prefecture, including the exclusion zone, revealed radiation levels up to 100 times higher than the international limit for public...

Geneva, March 19 2018 - The Japanese government must immediately take measures to fully implement the Fukushima recommendations accepted today at the United Nations Human Rights Council (HRC), an evacuee mother from the nuclear disaster and...

May 9, 2018 Tokyo, Japan -- In response to the Dai-ichi Life Insurance Company’s announcement on coal power plant finance restriction, a group of Environmental NGOs, Japan Center for a Sustainable Environment and Society (JACSES), Friends of the...

May 17 2018 Tokyo, Japan -- The following is a joint statement issued by a group of Environmental NGOs ー 350.org Japan, Japan Center for a Sustainable Environment and Society (JACSES), Greenpeace Japan, Rainforest Action Network, FOE Japan,...

Tokyo, 8 March 2018 - The Japanese government has announced that it had accepted all four recommendations made at the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) on the rights of evacuees from the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear accident. The decision...

Tokyo, 25 October 2017 - Japan’s nuclear regulator must take urgent action to launch a comprehensive investigation into the supply and widespread use of potentially flawed Kobe Steel products in the Japanese nuclear industry, Greenpeace and five...

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, 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...

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...

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.