JAPAN Forward interviewed PowerX CEO Masahiro Ito to discuss its pivotal role in advancing Japan's renewable energy landscape and its upcoming innovations.
Wind power is rapidly gaining momentum in wind-rich Hokkaido, but environmental concerns loom as giant turbines pose risks to the natural environment.
The rising construction of wind turbines threatens the nesting sites of the endangered eastern marsh harrier, or chuhi, in the grasslands of northern Hokkaido.
The COP28 declaration to triple renewable energy sources is an opportunity for Japan to share its advanced technology for nuclear power development overseas.
Facing challenges from global warming, rising sea levels and natural disasters, experts consider life on water at the World Conference on Floating Solutions.
Allowing China to control key infrastructure is equivalent to conceding outposts for an "unarmed invasion" when relations get strained.
In response to citizens' concerns over onshore wind farm development, Japan is actively promoting offshore wind power, with several projects underway.
Challenergy's bladeless wind power technology has advantages over conventional turbines, including operating even in typhoons, making it ideal for islands.
It is vitally important that national politicians and bureaucrats listen to involved local voices on the role of nuclear power as Japan moves toward cuts in...
At one time shipbuilders in Japan accounted for around half of all new ships built in the world. However, from the 1990s the...