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Kyocera and Century Tokyo Leasing to develop floating solar power facility in Japan
2014-12-24 01:00:00| Power Technology
Kyocera TCL Solar, a joint venture formed by Kyocera and Century Tokyo Leasing, will develop a 13.4MW floating solar power plant on the Yamakura Dam reservoir in Chiba Prefecture, Japan.
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Japan: Fukushima and institutional invisibility of nuclear disaster
2014-12-20 19:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Ecologist: The nuclear industry and its supporters have contrived a variety of narratives to justify and explain away nuclear catastrophes, writes John Downer. None of them actually hold water, yet they serve their purpose - to command political and media heights, and reassure public sentiment on 'safety'. But if it's so safe, why the low limits on nuclear liabilities? In a truly competitive marketplace, unfettered by subsidies, no one would have built a nuclear reactor in the past, no one would build one...
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Nippon Life, other Japan life insurers join $375 mln Bunge loan
2014-12-19 17:38:14| Agriculture - Topix.net
Japan's three largest life insurers, including Nippon Life Insurance Co, have joined more than a dozen Japanese lenders in a $375 million syndicated loan to U.S. trade house Bunge Ltd, the lenders said on Friday. The deal highlights a growing appetite for overseas lending deals among Japanese insurers as they face ultra-low yields at home.
Japan auto lobby sounds alarm over weak domestic sales
2014-12-18 10:23:51| Auto Dealers - Topix.net
The head of Japan's auto lobby on Thursday said a "sense of crisis" hung over the industry, with unexpectedly weak domestic sales revealing the failure of government stimulus policies and currency turmoil hitting key export markets. Japan Automobile Manufacturers Association Chairman Fumihiko Ike said an April sales tax hike was only partly to blame for the domestic sales weakness, citing the government's failure to boost consumption.
Nuclear regulator clears way for Takahama nuclear power plant restart in Japan
2014-12-18 01:00:00| Power Technology
Japan's Nuclear Regulation Authority (NRA) has approved a key draft report for two more reactors at Kansai Electric Power's Takahama nuclear power plant in Fukui Prefecture.
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