Tepco has been eager to restart the world’s biggest atomic power plant to minimise running costs, but doing so requires local clearance in Niigata prefecture on the Sea of Japan coast.
Kishida is the last G7 leader to visit the war-torn country and has come under increasing pressure to make the trip, as Japan hosts the grouping's summit this May.
According to a Japanese government official, Yoshimasa Hayashi, the foreign minister of Japan, will not attend the G20 foreign ministers' meeting scheduled for this week in New Delhi, India.
North Korea has fired three short-range ballistic missiles into the Sea of Japan, according to South Korean and Japanese defense officials, who condemned the show of force as a threat to regional stability.