Basic water utility fees will be waived for residents of Tokyo this summer in an effort to limit the impact of extreme heat, ...

Tokyo Gov. Yuriko Koike announced May 20 that the basic water charge for all general households in the capital will be waived ...

Some regions of Japan, including the Tokyo metropolitan area, face the possibility of water shortages due to scarce rainfall and scorching heat. Tropical temperatures above 30 degrees Celsius ...

Over 20% of water pipes across Japan have exceeded their legal service life of 40 years, but many municipalities are struggling to deal with the matter. Of the roughly 740,000 kilometers of the ...

A panel of experts at the Environment Ministry is discussing changes to Japan's drinking water standards to protect the public from harmful per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances, better known as ...

ISLAMABAD: The Japanese government has approved a grant assistance of $3.50 million for Pakistan to provide smart water meters and related equipment to the Water and Sanitation Agency (Wasa ...

The Embassy of Japan has signed a grant contract with Japanese non-governmental organization Ikaw-Ako to support the third phase of a safe water supply and sanitary education project in Bohol. In a ...

Japan will begin releasing a second batch of waste water from the crippled Fukushima nuclear plant from next week, its operator has said, an exercise that angered China and others when it began in ...

TOKYO -- Steel products in Japan have become cheaper than water by weight, plummeting in price due to an intense competition among distributors, undermining consolidation efforts by the ...