Japan’s Kishida Says He Wants to Reduce Reliance on Nuclear Power as Much as Possible

TOKYO—Prime Minister Fumio Kishida stated Wednesday he needed to scale back Japan’s reliance on nuclear energy as a lot as doable, rejecting ideas that he was looking for a reversal within the authorities’s primary post-Fukushima coverage.

Since the triple meltdowns on the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant after an earthquake and tsunami on March 11, 2011, successive governments have typically stated they needed to part out nuclear energy in Japan over time, whereas permitting some present reactors to function for now.