In January 2026, households in several Japanese municipalities began testing a water system that connects to no municipal pipe. The units, installed next to washing machines, filter and recirculate ...

Osaka has received an anonymous gift of gold bars to repair the Japanese city’s aging water pipes. Mayor Hideyuki Yokoyama says the donor gave 21 kilograms of gold worth about $3.6 million.

Japanese officials plan to start discharging treated radioactive wastewater from the damaged Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant into the Pacific Ocean on Thursday, a contentious step more than 12 ...

A Japanese city has received a hefty donation to help fix its ageing water system: 21kg (46lb) in gold bars. The gold bars, worth an estimated 560 million yen ($3.6m; £2.7m), were given last November ...

The treated water retains a reduced level of a radioactive form of hydrogen. TOKYO -- Japan plans to begin a decades-long process of releasing treated wastewater from the 2011 Fukushima nuclear ...

The U.S. military took a significant step forward by removing toxic firefighting foam from all its bases in Japan, which will protect service members and local communities while safeguarding water ...

Japan will begin releasing wastewater from the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant into the Pacific Ocean on Thursday. "I have asked Tepco [the power plant's operator, Tokyo Electric Power] to ...

TOKYO — Japan said on Tuesday it will start releasing more than 1 million metric tons of treated radioactive water from the wrecked Fukushima nuclear power plant on Thursday, putting into motion a ...