A senior Japanese official’s suggestion that Japan should possess nuclear weapons has reignited debate over whether the country could—or would—break with a decades-old taboo in response to an ...

A Japanese atomic bomb survivors group that won the Nobel Peace Prize strongly condemned US President Donald Trump's order for the Defence Department to “immediately” start testing nuclear weapons.

The end of the pact could unleash a new arms race between the world’s top nuclear powers. Read more at straitstimes.com. Read ...

North Korea said Japan’s ambition to possess nuclear weapons should be “prevented at any cost”, Pyongyang state media KCNA said on Sunday, citing the country’s foreign ministry. “Japan’s attempt to go ...

Japanese survivors of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombings say the expiry of the New START Treaty risks a new nuclear arms ...

A Japanese group representing survivors of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki has surveyed Japanese Diet members ...

Japanese atomic bombing survivors, known as hibakusha, have stressed the importance of nuclear weapons abolition on the ...

The New START treaty ended after U.S. President Donald Trump did not follow up on a Russian proposal to extend warhead limits ...

TOKYO -- The Mainichi Shimbun asked all 1,285 candidates in the Feb. 8 House of Representatives election about their views on ...

Japan‘s largest nuclear power plant is planning to partially reopen, sparking anxiety in a nation repeatedly traumatized by the technology. The Niigata Prefectural Assembly voted on Monday to resume ...

OPINION: As a new nuclear arms race looms, our atomic veterans still demand justice. Read more at The Nevada Independent.