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 …
Turkey , which assumed the presidency of the G20, will push for inclusive growth and investment to boost economic expansion and stem the tide of rising inequality , its sherpa has said. “We defined our priorities as the three Is -namely implementation, investment and also inclusive growth. One of the …
The Fire and Disaster Management Agency said Tuesday that 2,904 people were taken to hospital nationwide in May due to heat exhaustion. Of those, three people died in Yamagata, Nagano and Aichi prefectures. Temperatures soared in May in many parts of Japan. The Japan Meteorological Agency said that temperatures in …
About 7,000 residents living in an area adjacent to Fukushima Prefecture filed an appeal with the Nuclear Damage Compensation Dispute Resolution Center (NDCDRC) on Monday, demanding compensation worth 1.85 billion yen (about 15 million U.S. dollars) from the Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO) . In the first collective appeal made …
A limited literature base suggests that ambient temperature contributes to suicide, with studies typically focused on a single nation using temporal and spatial aggregated data. The researchers evaluated an association between ambient temperature and suicide in multiple cities in three East Asian countries.
Japan will delay removal of dangerous spent uranium fuel rods from the wrecked Fukushima power station, another setback in Tokyo Electric Power Co's struggle to contain the world's worst nuclear disaster since Chernobyl in 1986. The Japanese government said on Friday it approved a revised "roadmap" for decommissioning the Fukushima …
A refined marking system resulted in some key changes in this year’s ranking of the top 25 most liveable cities Tokyo is the number one city to call home according to Monocle’s 2015 Quality of Life Survey, which has been published in association with AkzoNobel. Rising from second place in …
TOKYO - A 5.7-magnitude quake jolted off northeastern Japan at around 1:51 pm local time on Thursday without triggering tsunami warnings, said Japan's Meteorological Agency (JMA). There were no immediate reports on damages and injuries. The quake was registered at level 3 of the Japanese seismic intensity scale of 7 …
A popular brand of instant noodles that was supposed to be back on store shelves Monday following a food safety scandal actually resumed sales a day earlier at some stores, surprising hard-core fans. Maruka Foods Corp. was to resume sales of its Peyoung brand instant noodles in the Kanto region …
An earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 4.7 struck Tokyo and its surrounding region on Tuesday morning, the Meteorological Agency said, No tsunami alert was issued. The 5:44 a.m. temblor occurred in the southern part of Ibaraki Prefecture at a depth of about 50 kilometers, registering 4 on the Japanese …
Japan has set an emissions target to be presented to November's climate summit that critics say is unambitious compared to those of other leading countries and unrealistic because it depends on restoring its nuclear industry in the face of public hostility. The government is proposing to cut greenhouse gas emissions …
The program officer of the Indonesia-Japan project for Development of Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation Plus (IJ-REDD+) in Ketapang, West Kalimantan, Dicko Rossanda, has indicated that the mind-set of Gunung Palung National Park (TNGP) officials was the most critical challenge faced in pushing forward changes in conservation-related problem …
Japan's Kyushu Electric Power said on Tuesday it has delayed the restart of its Sendai nuclear plant in southwestern Japan, the first to be brought back into service under new rules introduced after the 2011 Fukushima disaster. The delay to mid-August from the previous target of late July follows a …
German sales of sulphur hexafluoride, the most potent of all greenhouse gases, rose 13 percent last year compared with 2013 levels, according to data from the federal statistics office published on Wednesday. Sales of sulphur hexafluoride increased by 104 tonnes to 916 tonnes in total last year, but were still …
A Japanese consultative committee on Monday stuck to a controversial government plan for atomic energy to generate 20-22 percent of the country's electricity by 2030 despite public opposition following the Fukushima nuclear disaster. The government will open the plan to the public for comment for a month from Tuesday and …
Rupert Wingfield-Hayes reports as Solar Impulse 2 makes an unscheduled landing in Japan Solar Impulse, the zero-fuel aeroplane, has landed in Japan after being forced to abort a Pacific crossing due to deteriorating weather ahead of it. The aircraft, which set off from China on Saturday (GMT), had hoped to …
An official has said that Mount Palung National Park (TNGP) conservation officials and local communities have become far more aware of the need to push forward with cooperation to protect conservation areas in North Kayong and Ketapan regencies, West Kalimantan. TNGP Conservation Agency head Dadang Wardhana said on Monday that …
Cabinet ministers in Japan approved a plan to reduce greenhouse gases by 26 percent by 2030, a goal already criticized by environmental groups as too timid and statistically unsound. The cuts, first unveiled in a draft in April, will use 2013 as a baseline. Acceptance of the draft report was …
More than $73bn of international public finance was given to coal between 2007 and 2014 via credit export agencies Japan and South Korea are the world’s biggest financiers of coal through export credit agencies, a new report has found, with coal projects in Australia among the major beneficiaries of their …
This study investigated the source categories and emission areas of carbonaceous aerosols transported from East Asia to the East China Sea. Mass concentrations of heavy metals, ionic components, organic carbon, and elemental carbon (EC) were measured at the Cape Hedo Atmosphere and Aerosol Monitoring Station in Okinawa, Japan, throughout 2010. …
Seismologists have warned Japan to stay vigilant for the next “Big One” after a 7.8-magnitude earthquake struck off the coast of the country, injuring a dozen people. Buildings swayed for about a minute in Tokyo on Saturday night as the quake struck at a remote spot in the Pacific Ocean …
