Japan’s plutonium production will soon exceed demand, creating a potentially destabilizing build-up.

Four years after the Fukushima crisis, Japan’s nuclear power plant Sendai is set to re-open.

The Fukushima disaster prompted a push to toughen a convention on the safety of nuclear power plants. But some countries with older reactors didn’t like the idea.

While physical aftershocks from the earthquake that struck Japan on March 11, 2011, have long ceased, societal aftershocks are still reverberating.

A number of big foreign and domestic policy challenges face Japan in 2014.

Although the emergence of new nuclear powers in the post–Cold War era has triggered fears of widespread nuclear proliferation and renewed calls for nuclear abolition, the pursuit and development of nuclear weapons in Asia are likely to only increase in the years ahead.

It is important to understand the role of nuclear weapons in the grand strategies of key Asian states and the impact of these capabilities—both established and latent—on regional and international stability.

Disaster relief plays an important role in the Japan-U.S. Security Alliance.

Japan’s Fukushima nuclear plant is back in the headlines as the country’s government reveals plans to deal with the latest leaks of contaminated water at the crippled nuclear facility.

Nuclear power should not go forward in newcomer countries until they are prepared to master a number of technological, political, economic, and logistical challenges.

The latter half of 2013 will be critical for Japan’s nuclear future.