Japan Is Open for Tourists, but How About Overseas Talent?

At the start of 2020, just as Japan was getting a new wave of overseas investment into the energy sector via the upcoming auctions for offshore wind, Covid-19 hit the world and locked down borders fo...

Japan To Create Energy Security Through New Strategic LNG Reserve

Japan has announced plans to create a strategic LNG reserve to ensure the world’s largest importer has enough natural gas to meet domestic demand in an increasingly competitive market. The reserve co...

Kawasaki City’s Aims To Turn Oil Refining Heartland Into Clean Energy Hub

In the mid-1950’s, Japan began developing vast industrial complexes along its eastern coastline to support the development of the country’s petroleum, petrochemical and steel industries during a post...

Baseload Electricity Market: EPCOs and New Players Vie for Cheap Electricity

The full liberalization of the electricity market in 2016 was one of Japan’s most significant developments of the past decade. That process has allowed a wide variety of new players to enter the mark...

Municipalities Go Net-zero: Carbon Neutral Stadiums and Hydrogen Hubs

The clean energy transition is by far the most ambitious collective effort ever undertaken by the global community. While led by Western and Asian democracies, no matter of top-down administrative ru...