The transport ministry will likely delay starting work to extend the Hokuriku Shinkansen bullet train line to link Tsuruga Station in Fukui Prefecture and Shin-Osaka Station in Osaka Prefecture, sources said. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/12/09/japan/hokuriku-shinkansen-extension-delay/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #mlit #hokurikushinkansen #bullettrains #rail #fukui #osaka #kyoto #ldp #nipponishinnokai #environment
Fukui Gov. Tatsuji Sugimoto has stepped down from his position after he admitted to sending inappropriate messages that constitute sexual harassment to multiple Fukui government workers. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/12/04/japan/politics/japan-governor-sexual-harassment-resignation/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #politics #tatsujisugimoto #fukui #sexualharassment
A Japanese high court branch on Friday rejected injunctions by local residents seeking to halt the operations of aging nuclear power reactors run by Kansai Electric Power in Fukui Prefecture. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/11/28/japan/crime-legal/court-rejection-injunctions-mihama-takahama/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #crimelegal #kepco #japanesecourts #fukui #mihama #takahama #nuclearenergy #earthquakes
Tatsuji Sugimoto, governor of Fukui Prefecture, said Tuesday that he will step down following sexual harassment allegations made against him. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/11/25/japan/crime-legal/fukui-governor-step-down/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #crimelegal #fukui #tatsujisugimoto #sexualharassment
A cargo ship carrying plutonium-uranium mixed oxide, or MOX, fuel produced in France has arrived at Kansai Electric Power's Takahama nuclear power plant in Fukui Prefecture, informed sources have said. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/11/17/japan/mox-fuel-takahama-nuclear-power-plant/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #kepco #takahama #fukui #nuclearenergy #france
Kansai Electric Power will start a survey early this month to assess whether it can build a new nuclear reactor in or near its Mihama nuclear power plant in Fukui Prefecture, sources said. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2025/11/03/companies/kansai-electric-reactor-survey/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #business #companies #kepco #nuclearenergy #mihama #utilities #energy #fukui
Kansai Electric Power says that it will complete a geological survey to build a safer next-generation nuclear reactor in Fukui Prefecture around 2030. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/09/18/japan/kansai-electric-survey/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #kepco #nuclearenergy #earthquakes #fukui #surveys
A high court ruling that acquitted a 60-year-old man in a high-profile retrial over a 1986 murder of a 15-year-old junior high school girl in the Japanese city of Fukui has been finalized — 38 years after his arrest. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/08/01/japan/crime-legal/shoshi-maekawa-acquittal-finalized/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #crimelegal #japanesecourts#fukui #falseconvictions
Citing a growing need for power in the nation, Kansai Electric Power Company said it will begin the process of building the first new nuclear reactor since the 2011 meltdown at the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/07/22/japan/kansai-electric-new-reactor/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #kansaielectricpower #nuclearenergy #mihama#fukui
A Japanese high court branch on Friday acquitted a 60-year-old man in a high-profile retrial over the 1986 murder of a 15-year-old junior high school girl in the city of Fukui. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/07/18/japan/crime-legal/man-acquitted-over-1986-fukui-murder/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #crimelegal #japanesecourts#fukui #falseconvictions