Thirteen years after the Fukushima disaster reshaped Japan's relationship with atomic energy, Tokyo has set its first explicit national targets for nuclear reactor reconstruction — a quiet but consequential acknowledgment that the country's energy future cannot be built on hesitation alone. Driven by the arithmetic of aging infrastructure and rising demand, the government has committed to rebuilding two to five reactors by the 2040s and as many as fourteen by the 2050s, aiming for nuclear to supply roughly a fifth of the nation's electricity. The decision is less an ideological embrace of nucl