Japan’s Power Market Regulation Failure? New Entrants Face Tough Test

Japan’s retail electricity market may be facing its greatest crisis since the end of World War II. Rapidly rising energy prices over the past six months have forced many electricity retailers into ba...

Top Interview: JERA’s Head of Decarbonization Strategy

Japan NRG sat down with Takahashi Kenji, GM of the Decarbonization Promotion Section at JERA’s Corporate Strategy Dept. to discuss what Japan’s biggest thermal power utility and top importer of LNG t...

Profile: NGK Insulators, Future Battery Superstar or Messy Outlier?

A shift to using weather-dependent energy sources like solar and wind requires ample and reliable power storage. So far, most attention has focused on lithium-ion batteries to fill that role, but the...

East-west Nuclear Divide Among Challenges Kishida’s GX Agenda Seeks to Tackle

It’s a Tale of Two Regions when it comes to nuclear power in Japan. In the West, the atom continues to generate electricity at close to pre-Fukushima levels. In the East, there’s the Big Nuclear Free...

First Hire in Japan? Don’t Panic

It’s hardly a secret that hiring / recruitment in Japan is just as unique as the local culture, and very much in contrast to how things are done in the rest of the world. This of course means there’s...