The country’s Ministry of Economy, Trade, and Industry announced in December that it will subsidize efforts by Honda and Toyota Motor to increase their production capacity for fuel cells that convert ...

Since December, civil society protests have marked the Japanese government’s drafting of its basic energy and climate action ...

In an ambitious move, the government has announced that it wants nuclear power to make up 20% of Japan’s energy mix by 2040. The decision was made by the economy ministry and revealed in the ...

As the urgency for climate action intensifies, Japan has embarked on an ambitious ... Coal currently accounts for 50% of the energy mix in Vietnam and 60% in Indonesia, levels requiring a long ...

2030 Energy Mix Forecasts/ Left: Japanese government/ Right: WWF Japan Konishi notes the 2030 energy mix forecast by the WWF requires the reorganization of Japan's electricity grid. She says that ...

The draft plan projects that nuclear energy will account for 20 percent of Japan’s total power generation mix in fiscal 2040, which is almost unchanged from the goal of 20 to 22 percent in ...

Japan's energy security will benefit from U.S. President Donald Trump's push to increase liquefied natural gas (LNG) ...

Japan’s Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba said he would ask US President Donald Trump for a stable supply of energy when they ...

Japan's current energy policy aims to have nuclear power account for 20 to 22 percent of the country's energy mix by fiscal 2030. However, as of fiscal 2022, nuclear power only made up 5.5 percent ...

The new proposal says nuclear energy should account for 20% of Japan’s energy supply in 2040, up from just 8.5% last year, while expanding renewables to 40-50% from 22.9% and reducing coal-fired ...