Japan

Electric Vehicle Charging

Hitachi and MUFG Bank expand NextGen model to finance vehicles and charging infrastructure for decarbonized mobility

Mar 27, 2026 -Hitachi, Ltd. (Hitachi) and MUFG Bank, Ltd. (MUFG Bank), a consolidated subsidiary of Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group, Inc. (MUFG) today announced …

Energy Storage System

PowerX Expands Energy Storage Manufacturing With New Hokkaido Facility In Japan

PowerX, Inc. has announced plans to set up a new manufacturing facility in Tomakomai City, Hokkaido, as part of its strategy to expand renewable energy solution…

Japan

World's 1st hydrogen-powered hotel opens in Japan's Fukushima prefecture

A hotel utilizing hydrogen as its main energy source opened in the town of Namie in the northeastern Japan prefecture of Fukushima on Wednesday.The hotel is the…

Japan

QST and NTT Achieve World's First Ultra-Fast Real-Time Plasma Control Communication

National Institutes for Quantum Science and Technology (hereinafter QST) and NTT, Inc. (hereinafter NTT) have successfully realized fast frequent, real‑time co…

Electric Vehicles

Honda, Sony hit pause on EV venture, scrap AFEELA launch

March 26 — Honda and Sony said yesterday they will put their electric-vehicle project on hold as they assess its future in a changing global market.Sony Honda …

Japan

Japan to start releasing state oil reserves on March 26

March 24 - Japan plans to start releasing oil from joint stockpiles ​held by producing nations in the country ‌by the end of March, Prime Minister Sanae Takai…

Nuclear Reactor

Tepco Restarts No. 6 Reactor at Kashiwazaki-Kariwa Plant After Part Replacement

Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings (Tepco) announced on Sunday that the No. 6 reactor at its Kashiwazaki-Kariwa nuclear plant in Niigata Prefecture has resum…

Gas power plant

NextEra secures Trump's approval for up to 10 GW gas power projects

March 20- NextEra Energy said on Friday U.S. President Donald Trump has approved the development ​of up to 10 gigawatts of natural gas-fired power ‌generation…

Japan

US, Japan announce $40B nuclear power project

The United States and Japan announced Thursday a $40 billion project to build nuclear reactors in Tennessee and Alabama, after a meeting of the two countries’ …

United States

IHI and GE Vernova achieve milestone with 100% ammonia combustion in large scale test

IHI Corporation (IHI) and GE Vernova announced that they have successfully tested 100% ammonia combustion in a GE Vernova F-class gas turbine. The emission leve…

Ohio Natural Gas Power Project Launches First Energy Cooperation Under U.S.-Japan Investment Framework

The U.S. Department of Commerce announced on Tuesday that a planned 92-gigawatt natural gas power complex near Portsmouth, Ohio, is one of the first projects un…

Chiyoda Corporation Secures FEED Contract for Qatar's North Field West LNG Project

The Japanese engineering company Chiyoda Corporation has recently secured a new contract for a liquefied natural gas (LNG) project. The project is commissioned …

TEPCO May Restart World's Largest Nuclear Plant Reactor

Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO) may restart a reactor at the world's largest nuclear power plant, the Kashiwazaki-Kariwa plant, this Wednesday after co…

Japan’s first floating offshore wind farm powers up

Japan’s first commercial offshore wind farm, Goto, has commenced operations.The Goto Floating Wind Farm consortium (SPC) said the wind farm, which started…

China

Yang Ming’s Dry Bulk Arm Lines up Ultramax Quartet at Japanese Yards

Kuang Ming Shipping, the dry bulk subsidiary of Taiwanese liner group Yang Ming Marine Transport, has placed orders for four ultramax bulk carriers at Japanese …