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...

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.

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.

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,...

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...

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...

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...

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, 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...

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, 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...

Tokyo, 4 October 2017 - Japan’s nuclear regulator today granted preliminary safety approval for two Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO) reactors at the Kashiwazaki Kariwa nuclear plant despite widespread public opposition. These are the first...

Tokyo, 21 September 2017 - The arrival of a shipment of plutonium fuel at the Kansai Electric Takahama nuclear plant in Fukui prefecture highlights the near complete failure of Japan’s nuclear policy and the disregard for nuclear proliferation...

Tokyo, 5 July 2017 – The plutonium MOX fuel shipment that will depart France to the Takahama unit 4 reactor today highlights both the risks and failure of Japan’s nuclear fuel cycle policy, Greenpeace warned today. Plutonium MOX fuel use reduces...

Today, the trial of three former TEPCO executives charged with ‘criminal negligence resulting in death’ for their role in the Fukushima nuclear disaster will open. Prosecutors contend that former TEPCO Chairman Tsunehisa Katsumata and two...

Tokyo, 23 June 2017 - The new Chairman of Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings (TEPCO) is confronted with a systemic crisis, which will prevent the restart of its nuclear reactors for many years and with no possibility to cover the tens of...

The “Bill On the Implementation of Cetacean Scientific Research for the Resumption of Commercial Whaling” (translation by IKAN) is a non-partisan bill that was first drafted by the opposition Democratic Party, but now aims to be passed by this...

Tokyo, 8 June 2017 - Greenpeace calls on Japan to finally terminate its unsuccessful plutonium Fast Breeder Reactor (FBR) program following an accident that exposed 5 workers to radiation in the Plutonium Fuels Research Facility (PFRF) at the...

Tokyo, 6 June 2017 - With today’s restart of the Takahama 3 reactor in Fukui Prefecture, Greenpeace revealed that the nuclear operator Kansai Electric and the French nuclear company AREVA are planning a secret plutonium fuel shipment from France...

Tokyo, 2 June 2017 - A concerned group of citizens gathered in the front of the U.S. Embassy in Tokyo to take part in an emergency action hosted by Greenpeace Japan and 350.org Japan to protest the U.S. exit from the Paris Agreement.

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...

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, 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.

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, 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.

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, 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...

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...

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...

22 November 2016, Tokyo – The Nuclear Regulation Authority (NRA) is failing in its oversight mandate by not extending its investigations into potentially flawed major components in Japanese reactors with a mere paper exercise, warned Greenpeace.

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...

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...

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...

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 --...

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...

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,...