Takeshi Miyamoto is a man on a mission, but things haven’t been going his way.
Earlier this year, his group, the Japan Iron and Steel Federation, an influential business association under the powerful Japan Business Federation (Nippon Keidanren), worked strenuously to convey its concerns to then-Prime Minister Taro Aso’s study group on climate change.
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