At least two persons died and more than 50 were injured, according to police, by strong winds that battered Japan on Sunday.

Japan has some of the worst wealth inequality and highest rates of child poverty among the world’s developed nations, according to a UNICEF report unveiled Thursday, which ranked the nation 34th ou

A new report has concluded that even the most efficient coal plants are incompatible with global climate change goals.

Japan's greenhouse gas emissions fell 3.1 percent to a three-year low in the fiscal year ended March 2015, due to reduced power demand and growing use of renewables, revised government figures show

Nine people have been killed and 860 others injured after a powerful earthquake jolted southwestern Japan on Thursday night, local police said Friday.

Japan is considering releasing thousands of tonnes of radioactive water into the Pacific Ocean from the beleaguered Fukushima plant.

Nuclear catastrophe is always an unmitigated disaster. The only beneficiaries, albeit in a perverse fashion, are animals, which tend to flourish in areas humans evacuate.

Japanese scientists said Saturday they have bioengineered the skin organ known as the integumentary system in mice using induced pluripotent stem (iPS) cells.

Japan’s utilities are reserving capacity for nuclear power on their grids even though all but two of the nation’s reactors remain closed with little prospect of many others restarting, according to