Dangerous levels of radiation have been detected at a stadium in Fukushima Prefecture slated to be the starting point of the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games Torch Relay, a leading environmental organization stated on Wednesday, amid claims that the Japanese government's decontamination efforts following the 2011 Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster have been unsuccessful

Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said on Monday that the list of this year's cherry-blossom viewing party guests was destroyed according to schedule, and denied allegations that it was somehow related to the disclosure request from an opposition lawmaker, media reported

Japan's Tohoku Electric Power company said on Wednesday that it had received a first green light from a Japanese nuclear watchdog to restart a reactor at its Onagawa nuclear power plant (NPP), which was extensively damaged in the 2011 earthquake and tsunami

Pope Francis, who is currently visiting Japan, held a mass on Monday in front of an audience of some 50,000 worshippers in Tokyo, media reported

Pope Francis and Japanese Emperor Naruhito met in Tokyo on Monday, media reported

The potential release of the tritium-tainted wastewater that is accumulating at Japan's crippled Fukushima No 1 power plant into the Pacific Ocean would be safe and entail "significantly small" risks, media reported on Monday, citing the Japanese Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry

Japan's government plans to invest $2.7 billion into its Fukushima prefecture, where the catastrophic 2011 nuclear plant meltdown occurred, to turn the area into a renewable energy hub, Japanese media reported on Sunday