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Japan driverless taxi start-up eyes partnerships with automakers

2016-02-29 16:06:38| Automakers - Topix.net

Feb 29 Japan's Robot Taxi aims to forge partnerships with carmakers to develop a driverless taxi service in time for the 2020 Olympics, the technology company said, holding its first tests on public roads and joining a global race to develop self-driving cars. The joint venture between gaming software maker DeNA Co and robotics developer ZMP has set the 2020 Games in Tokyo as a target to develop software to operate driverless cars and an online service to ferry athletes and tourists between Olympic venues and the city's transport hubs.

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Japan Plans Biggest Test of Carbon Capture North of Quake Site

2016-02-28 20:36:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Bloomberg: Japan is preparing to test its biggest project yet for capturing and storing greenhouse gas pollution under the seabed despite concerns about cost and the safety of pursuing the technology in a region prone to earthquakes. Engineers plan to inject carbon dioxide into deep saline aquifers off the coast of Hokkaido at the northern tip of the nation starting in April. The gas will be siphoned away from a refinery operated by Idemitsu Kosan Co. under the government-backed project. Five years after...

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Japan environment ministry's coal plant reversal casts doubt on CO2 pledge

2016-02-23 07:41:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Reuters: A decision by Japan's environment ministry to abandon its opposition to building new coal-fired power stations casts doubt on the industry's ability to meet targets to cut greenhouse gas emissions, experts and environmental activists said. The environment ministry's recent reversal puts Japan further out of step with other industrialized economies that have been restricting coal to meet commitments on carbon emissions agreed between 200 nations in Paris two months ago. The power industry accounts...

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Saft opens new subsidiary in Japan

2016-02-22 11:56:16| Green Car Congress

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Japan approves pork exports from Mexico

2016-02-22 03:51:00| National Hog Farmer

By P. Scott Shearer, Bockorny Group, Washington, D.C. The Japanese Ministry of Agriculture has announced it will allow the import of Mexican pork products from approved plants. read more

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