Overview
- Tokyo Electric Power is coordinating a Kashiwazaki–Kariwa Unit 6 restart timeline centered on January 20, 2026, according to local reporting.
- TEPCO’s move would mark its first reactor brought back online since the Fukushima Daiichi accident in 2011.
- Opposition leader Yoshihiko Noda urged Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi to dismiss a security-policy official over reported remarks favoring nuclear armament.
- The Supreme Court’s Third Petty Bench set February 27, 2026, for oral arguments in an appeal over a revoked hunting gun permit in Hokkaido.
- Japan international Takumi Minamino suffered a torn anterior cruciate ligament in his left knee, and NHK reports he faces a long spell out.