Japan

Hydrogen Project

Toshiba Supporting Japan’s Hydrogen Targets

Toshiba is supporting the Japanese Government’s hydrogen targets, outlined in its Basic Hydrogen Strategy for 2030 and 2050 by producing hydrogen in its Fukush…

Tidal Energy

Japan and Ireland Partner on Canadian Tidal Power Project

This project is the first tidal energy project in which a Japanese company will participate overseas

Energy Security

G7 Comments on Oil Tanker Attack

The G7 foreign ministers of Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the United Kingdom and the United States of America, and the high representative of the Europ…

Hydrogen Project

Panasonic Pioneering Hydrogen Power to Fuel Factories Worldwide

Panasonic Corp. is turning a fuel-cell factory in the lakeside city of Kusatsu, in Shiga Prefecture, into what could be the world’s first hydrogen-based plant …

Hydrogen Fuel Cell Vehicle

New Hydrogen-Powered Ferry Revealed in Japan

A new hydrogen-powered ferry has been revealed in Japan today as part of a joint venture between Tsuneishi and CMB.

Ammonia

CF, Mitsui Partner to Explore US Blue Ammonia Projects

US nitrogen producer CF Industries signed an initial agreement today with Japan-based ammonia marketer Mitsui to explore blue ammonia projects in the US.

Hydrogen Project

Japan’s ‘Hydrogen Olympics’ the Latest Stumble for Hydrogen Energy

It took some chemical wizardry, but the Olympic cauldron in Japan leapt to life not with natural gas or some other traditional fuel.

Biobattery

Sweetman Biomass Signs Japanese Bioenergy Deal

Terms surrounding a 20-year, binding supply agreement have been reached between a subsidiary of ASX bound Sweetman Renewables and a leading Japanese conglomerat…

Hydrogen Production

Japan's J-Power, Schlumberger Eye Hydrogen from Coal

The carbon dioxide that comes out of the process will be used for enhanced oil recovery.

Geothermal Power Plant

GreenFire Energy and Dios Energy to Develop Geothermal Energy in Japan

Dios Energy will develop and support geothermal projects in Japan exclusively on behalf of GreenFire Energy.

Nuclear Reactor

Japanese Gas-Cooled Reactor Restarts

The Japan Atomic Energy Agency has resumed operation of the High-Temperature Test Reactor in Oarai, Ibaraki Prefecture.

Hydrogen Project

How the Fukushima Nuclear Disaster is Propelling Japan into a New Age of Hydrogen Energy

With billions of people watching the Olympics, the host country is using the Games as an opportunity to make a statement.

Ammonia

ADNOC Sells First Blue Ammonia Cargo to Japan's Itochu Amid Clean Energy Push

Abu Dhabi National Oil Co. has sold its first blue ammonia cargo to Japan's Itochu to be used in fertilizer production as the UAE's biggest energy company bolst…

Solar Power Plant

juwi Shizen Energy to Begin Construction of Japanese Solar Park

It is the largest project that juwi Shizen Energy has received to date.

Hydrogen Transport

World’s First International Liquid-Hydrogen Shipment Delayed Again by up to Eight Months

The Suiso Frontier vessel had originally been due to make the journey from Australia to Japan in March this year, but it might not now happen until March 2022, …