Japan Plays Catch-up on Climate Tech as Kishida Pushes Startup Innovation

(This is Part 1 of a two-part series about Japan’s climate-tech/ clean-tech sector) Japan isn’t known for its own Silicon Valley or high-profile private backers of technologies to tackle climate c...

Japan Heads Asia Zero Emission Community To Regional Energy Transition

In a collective effort to accelerate the transition to clean energy and meet the targets outlined in the Paris climate accord, Japan and ten other countries in the Asia-Pacific region joined together...

Energy Transition Experiment: Japan’s First Hotel Powered by Hydrogen

As major economies across the globe launch initiatives to accelerate the energy transition, many sectors of the economy previously untouched by reforms feel obliged to come up with plans to bring an ...

Fueling Progress: Southeast Asia’s LNG Market and Japan’s Strategic Inroads

Southeast Asia is forecasted by the IMF to be the world’s fastest-growing region this year. That economic development, however, can only succeed and be sustained if there’s a substantial increase in ...

Japan Electricity Trading Market Renewal Scheduled After 2028

Electricity always requires perfect balance. Maintaining this equilibrium between what power plants can deliver to the grid and what users require is, however, a tough task that’s only getting harder...