Promoting decarbonization and enhanced car safety was the focus of exhibits by Japanese manufacturers like Panasonic and Sharp at the recent CES trade show.
Hastily enacted, the required installations ignore property owners’ rights as well as the oppression in the Uyghur region supplying the solar panels.
Junichiro Koizumi believes PM Kishida is wrong to promote nuclear power in disaster-prone Japan. He argues for the "safer" option: coal-fired power generation.
At a side event of COP27 in Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt, the cities of Yokohama and Tokorozawa shared their leading initiatives on transitioning to net zero...
At COP27, Japan cannot agree to any further reduction in gas emissions. Rational responses must come from all countries, including China and Russia.
"Market mechanisms are always followed by tears and laughter," says Sojitz Research Institute Chief Economist Tatsuhiko Yoshizaki on the weak yen.
“The region’s environmental issues have become security issues,” says concerned Iwakuni City Council member Takashi Ishimoto.
Pledging to decarbonize and reduce energy imports from Russia, signs point to Japan’s biggest change in nuclear policy since the Great East Japan Earthquake.
Pilot projects done by major companies could help achieve decarbonization while avoiding the risks of depending on Russian energy imports.
Often described as open-air baths, they include a little adventure ー with views of the ocean, river, or mountains, under the blue sky or bright stars.
Japan relies on overseas imports for most of its energy resources; its energy security must not be compromised by the escalating tensions in Ukraine.
The two leaders condemned the Russian invasion and need for strong sanctions, while the Pope and Kishida repeated their aim of a world without nuclear weapons.