Japan: Intense Rain Hits Evening Rush Hour In Tokyo, Trains Suspended 8

Heavy rainfall hit the Tokyo metropolitan area on Wednesday, August 21 disrupting some train services during evening rush hour. Videos posted on social media shows water falling from ceilings like a waterfall inside stations and streets flooded like a river across the city.

Senior ruling bloc lawmakers discuss collective self-defense

Senior ruling bloc lawmakers discuss collective self-defense

TOKYO, Japan - Senior lawmakers of Japan's ruling bloc attend a meeting on June 20, 2014, in Tokyo to discuss the proposed removal of the self-imposed ban on the right to collective self-defense. (From L) New Komeito party Secretary General Yoshihisa Inoue, New Komeito deputy chief Kazuo Kitagawa, Liberal Democratic Party Vice President Masahiko Komura and LDP Secretary General Shigeru Ishiba were among them.

Tohoku Electric files for safety review to allow reactor resumption

Tohoku Electric files for safety review to allow reactor resumption

TOKYO, Japan - Shigeru Inoue, vice president of Tohoku Electric Power Co., (R) submits an application for a state safety assessment of a nuclear reactor at its Higashidori plant to a Nuclear Regulation Authority official in Tokyo on June 10, 2014. The No. 1 reactor at the plant is the 19th in Japan for which a safety review application has been filed since safety requirements were tightened last year in the wake of the 2011 Fukushima nuclear crisis.

Lower house passes supplementary war contingency bills

Lower house passes supplementary war contingency bills

TOKYO, Japan - (From L to R) Foreign Minister Yoriko Kawaguchi, Defense Agency Director General Shigeru Ishiba and Kazuyoshi Inoue, state minister in charge of legislation to deal with possible foreign attacks, bow in appreciation as the House of Representatives passed a set of seven bills to supplement Japan's first war contingency legislation at a plenary session on May 20.

Japan inaugurates new body for nuclear fuel reprocessing

Japan inaugurates new body for nuclear fuel reprocessing

Shigeru Inoue, head of the newly established Nuclear Reprocessing Organization of Japan, speaks to reporters in front of its head office in Aomori, northeastern Japan, on Oct. 3, 2016. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

Lower house passes supplementary war contingency bills

Lower house passes supplementary war contingency bills

TOKYO, Japan - (From L to R) Foreign Minister Yoriko Kawaguchi, Defense Agency Director General Shigeru Ishiba and Kazuyoshi Inoue, state minister in charge of legislation to deal with possible foreign attacks, bow in appreciation as the House of Representatives passed a set of seven bills to supplement Japan's first war contingency legislation at a plenary session on May 20. (Kyodo)