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PLUTONIUM

Prime Minister Fumio Kishida speaks during a high-level meeting on the Fissile Material Cut-off Treaty in New York on Monday.
JAPAN / Politics
Sep 24, 2024
Japan and 11 other countries call for early start of fissile material ban talks
High-level representatives from 12 countries stated that a Fissile Material Cut-off Treaty will significantly contribute to nuclear disarmament and nonproliferation.
Japan Times
EDITORIALS
Aug 6, 2020
Japan's stalled nuclear fuel cycle policy
While the disposal of the spent nuclear fuel is big challenge that must be tackled, it should not stop the government and the power industry from rethinking the costly fuel cycle program.
Japan Times
EDITORIALS
Feb 20, 2020
Review the nation's quest for a nuclear fuel cycle
The government and the power industry need to proceed with a long-overdue review of the the MOX nuclear fuel cycle policy.
Japan Times
WORLD
Feb 1, 2019
U.S. secretly shipped Cold War-era plutonium to Nevada, raising safety fears and riling lawmakers
The U.S. government secretly shipped a large amount of deadly plutonium from a South Carolina site that produced the radioactive metal for nuclear bombs during the Cold War to Nevada, the Trump administration revealed on Wednesday.
EDITORIALS
Jul 7, 2018
Reducing Japan's plutonium stock
Japan is under pressure to shrink its 47-ton stockpile of plutonium.
Japan Times
JAPAN / History
Jun 9, 2017
Declassified papers reveal U.S. held debate on Japan's nuclear ambitions in 1970s
Japan's push to establish a nuclear fuel recycling program and use the plutonium created in the process was the center of an intense debate in the U.S. government four decades ago, pitting those who wanted smooth relations with Tokyo against those who worried the plan might lead to the proliferation...
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
May 31, 2017
Commercial plutonium a bomb material
The usability of reactor-grade plutonium for weapons threatens the whole nuclear fuel-cycle concept of Japan's Council for Nuclear Fuel Cycle.
EDITORIALS
Dec 22, 2016
Review the failure of Monju
Before the government launches another expensive undertaking aimed at keeping its nuclear fuel cycle policy alive, it should first examine why the Monju fast-breeder project ended in failure.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Jun 15, 2016
U.S. institute warns Pyongyang may be 'significantly' upping nuclear bomb output
North Korea may be significantly expanding its nuclear weapons production and could have added six or more weapons to its stockpile in the last 18 months, a U.S. research institute said on Tuesday.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Apr 5, 2016
Plumes may point to Pyongyang producing plutonium, says U.S. think tank
Recent satellite images have shown "suspicious" activity at North Korea's main nuclear site at Yongbyon, which could mean reprocessing is underway to produce more plutonium for atomic bombs, a report published by a U.S. research institute said on Monday.
JAPAN
Mar 25, 2016
South Carolina governor wants U.S. to divert shipload of arms-grade plutonium from Japan
The demand by Nikki Haley has the potential to embarrass the Obama administration a week before it hosts an important summit on nuclear nonproliferation.
Two of America’s biggest debt holders are dumping Treasurys
The U.S. Treasury building in Washington. Investors in Japan and China sold a pile of U.S. debt in the last quarter, just before the U.S. presidential election.
Tokyo Metro’s overseas efforts begin in earnest with London deal
Tokyo Metro will soon have a role in the running of London's Elizabeth Line, a major train route serving the U.K.’s capital city and environs.
Russia fired experimental ballistic missile at Ukraine, Putin says
Ukrainian firefighters work on a spot following an airstrike in Dnipro on Thursday.
Ex-yokozuna Kitanofuji dies at 82
Yokozuna Kitanofuji enters the ring during the May 1970 grand sumo tournament in Tokyo.
Man charged with murder allegedly made victim date other men for money
A car carrying suspect Ryotaro Masuda, who was indicted for allegedly beating his 25-year-old girlfriend to death, leaves the Shibuya Police Station in Tokyo on Thursday.
The slow-burn success of ‘A Samurai in Time’
A 19th-century warrior gets struck by lightning and wakes to find himself in 21st-century Kyoto in Junichi Yasuda’s surprise hit “A Samurai in Time.”
Around a quarter of Japan married couples in their 20s met through dating apps
A survey released by an organization promoting “Good Couples Day” shows that 24% of couples in their 20s met their marriage partner through a dating app.
'Tokyo Swindlers': Get deep into the minds of real estate con artists
In Ko Shinjo's "Tokyo Swindlers," a group of con artists manipulates real estate giants into falsified deals within the highly competitive, quick market.
Japan, U.K. and Italy discuss inviting more countries to joint fighter project
A new concept model of a next-generation fighter jet to be jointly developed by Japan, Britain and Italy is on display in Farnborough, Hampshire, in July.
Haruki Murakami's 'The City and Its Uncertain Walls' gives deep deja vu
For “The City and Its Uncertain Walls,” translated into English by Philip Gabriel, Haruki Murakami confronts the ghosts who won't leave him alone.

Podcast

One of the many entrances to the Kabukicho neighborhood in Tokyo’s Shinjuku Ward.
Kabukicho: Tokyo’s ‘stadium of desire’

Longform

Construction takes place on the Takanawa Gateway Convention Center in Tokyo, slated to open in 2025.
A boom for business tourism in Japan?
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