Japan has one of the highest installed renewable energy capacities in the world. The country is also one of the world’s largest consumers of energy. Lacking its own fossil fuel resources, it relies on imports for nearly all of its supply. This dependence on imports makes the country vulnerable to …
Following is a table showing that developed nations' plans for combating climate change fall well short of cuts outlined by scientists to avert the worst of global warming. Current pledges by developed nations will cut emissions to 9.0 billion tonnes, a fall of 26 percent from 12.2 billion in 2010. …
Japan has restarted a nuclear reactor for the first time under new safety standards put in place since the Fukushima disaster in 2011, as Prime Minister Shinzo Abe seeks to reassure a nervous public that the industry is now safe. Abe and much of Japanese industry want reactors to be …
A magnitude 5.2 earthquake struck Japan's eastern region on Thursday, but did not prompt tsunami warnings. The epicentre of the earthquake was in the Ibaraki Prefecture, but the quake reportedly shook buildings even in Tokyo, Reuters reported. Japan's meteorological agency reported that the earthquake struck at a depth of 60 …
The Fire and Disaster Management Agency said Tuesday that 11,672 people were taken to hospitals nationwide to be treated for heatstroke in the week from July 27 to Aug 2, the first time ever that the number of heatstroke patents has surpassed 10,000 in one week. Tokyo had the highest …
The number of people across Japan taken to hospitals by ambulance due to heatstroke or heat exhaustion stood at 11,672 in the week to Sunday, the most in a single week since officials started compiling comparable statistics in 2008, the Fire and Disaster Management Agency said Tuesday. Temperatures hit 35 …
437 nuclear power plants are in operation at present around the world to meet increasing energy demands. Unfortunately, five major nuclear accidents have occurred in the past—ie, at Kyshtym (Russia [then USSR], 1957), Windscale Piles (UK, 1957), Three Mile Island (USA, 1979), Chernobyl (Ukraine [then USSR], 1986), and Fukushima (Japan, …
The Japanese International Cooperation Agency has finalised plans to fund solar power parks in various states of India. According to the recent announcement, the Japanese International Cooperation Agency (JICA) plans to invest $500 million into the Indian solar parks. Other multilateral institutions like the World Bank, KfW, the European Investment …
The government has approved an increase in compensation payments for the Fukushima nuclear crisis to ¥7.07 trillion as tens of thousands of evacuees remain in temporary housing more than four years after the disaster. Tokyo Electric Power Co. will receive ¥950 billion more in public funds on top of the …
The report "The impact of good practice policies on regional and global greenhouse gas emissions" by NewClimate Institute, PBL Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency and the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis looks at the impact of “good practice” emission reduction policies in nine different areas globally and across six countries: …
Although more than 90% of Europeans, Japanese and North Americans are aware(Reuters) Some 40% of adults worldwide have never heard of climate change, a study has found. Published in Nature Climate Change, the researchers from a string of higher education facilities across the US analysed the awareness and the perceived …
Japan on Tuesday approved an increase in compensation payments for the Fukushima crisis to 7.07 trillion yen ($57.18 billion), as tens of thousands of evacuees remain in temporary housing more than four years after the disaster. Tokyo Electric Power Co (Tepco), the operator of the wrecked Fukushima Daiichi nuclear station, …
The Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism Ministry will set up a system designating certain roads as recommended cycling routes to help spur development of the bicycle tourism industry. Certified roads will get subsidies for improvements such as additional signposts, bicycle parking lots and toilets, ministry officials said Monday. The system …
Alteration of the spatial variability of natural flow regimes has been less studied than that of the temporal variability, despite its ecological importance for river ecosystems. Here, we aimed to quantify the spatial patterns of flow regime alterations along a river network in the Sagami River, Japan, by estimating river …
With the countries moving step-by-step towards their joint goal to fight impacts of climate change through individual actions, Japan on Monday submitted its post-2020 'climate action plan' to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), promising to cut 26% of its greenhouse gas (GHG) emission from its 2013 …
Japan's renewable energy revolution is gathering pace, with one company recently initiating plans to cover some of the country's old abandoned golf courses with solar panels. Following the Fukushima nuclear disaster in 2011, all of Japan's 50 nuclear reactors were shut down as part of a safety drive. The country, …
The Environment Ministry on Saturday started work to transport radiation-tainted soil and other waste from an elementary school in Fukushima Prefecture, home to Tokyo Electric Power Co.’s Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant damaged in the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami, to an interim storage site in the same prefecture …
TOKYO, July 17 (Xinhua) -- The 11th typhoon Nangka made landfalls late Thursday and early Friday on the western Japan island of Shikoku and Okayama Prefecture separately, leaving at least two dead while causing major disruptions to transport systems, local media reported. Over 4,000 residents in Kochi Prefecture on the …
Japan said on Friday it would slash its greenhouse gas emissions by 26 percent by 2030 from 2013 levels and would submit the plan to the United Nations later in the day as its contribution to a global summit on climate change in Paris in November. The target is based …
The Nuclear Regulatory Authority (NRA) on Wednesday gave the OK for Shikoku Electric Power Co to restart the No. 3 reactor at its Ikata nuclear power plant in Ehime Prefecture. The safety approval is still only one of three needed before the reactor can go back online. The consent of …
Solar, wind and other forms of renewable energy besides hydro-electric dams now supply more electricity than nuclear in Japan, China, India and five other major economies accounting for about half the world’s population, a nuclear industry report shows. While nuclear stations on average produce about twice as much electricity as …
