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CARBON

Japan Times
BUSINESS
Feb 1, 2021
Push to go electric could wipe out Japan’s cheap microcars
Electrification can add u00a51 million to u00a52 million to the price tag of a smaller kei vehicle, potentially doubling its price.
Japan Times
WORLD / Science & Health
Jan 30, 2021
As companies chase net-zero, backers say carbon offsets are 'part of the answer'
As more companies commit to cutting their emissions to net zero, the offsets they purchase could spur development of clean technologies like hydrogen fuel.
Japan Times
WORLD / Politics
Jan 27, 2021
The battle lines are forming in Biden’s climate push
What may well stand in the U.S. president's way is political intransigence from senators from fossil-fuel states in both parties.
Japan Times
WORLD
Jan 21, 2021
Biden, in a burst of climate orders, rejoins the Paris Agreement
The moves represent a first step in healing one of the deepest rifts between the United States and the rest of the world after Trump defiantly rejected the Paris pact.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC / ANALYSIS
Jan 21, 2021
Australia feels global and national heat for lack of 2050 zero-emissions goal
Australia is seen as a regional laggard on climate by some green groups, who cite pledges for zero emissions by midcentury made by China, Japan and South Korea.
Japan Times
WORLD
Jan 14, 2021
Africa's Great Green Wall aims for fresh growth spurt after sluggish start
About a quarter of the Earth's land area is in a bad condition due to natural processes such as erosion and human practices like deforestation and overgrazing, scientists say.
BUSINESS
Dec 31, 2020
Japan's climate plan: Big on ambition but small in scope
Despite Suga's pledge, questions remain concerning the country's willingness to overhaul the world's third-largest economy, slash harmful greenhouse gas emissions and curtail global warming.
BUSINESS
Dec 25, 2020
Japan lays out plan to steer economy away from carbon by 2050
The home of the world's third-largest economy is also the world's fifth largest emitter of carbon dioxide.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Dec 25, 2020
China’s green gambit and climate change
In President Xi's view, China may be able to use the promise to cooperate on climate change as a source of leverage with which to thwart Joe Biden's containment strategy
Japan Times
WORLD
Dec 20, 2020
The real trees behind fake corporate climate progress
Carbon offsets — an increasingly popular tool used by thousands of companies to declare improved environmental performances — sometimes fall short of big claims.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Dec 18, 2020
While we're waiting for electric cars to fully charge, how about hybrids?
Investors have run up the stock prices of electric car companies and their valuations far higher than the businesses really warrant.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Dec 11, 2020
China’s global climate boost
China is thus arguably the modern era's first “hybrid” superpower: a global leader that does not yet have a fully advanced economy.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Dec 9, 2020
Exxon's activist uses weapons provided by Exxon
The fact the activist led with this straightforward jab speaks to the difficulty inherent to landing the other punch: namely, getting Exxon to look beyond oil and gas.
BUSINESS
Dec 7, 2020
Australian and Japanese companies aim to bury Asia's carbon emissions under the sea
Major energy producers have championed carbon capture and storage as a means to curb their emissions footprint.
Japan Times
WORLD / Science & Health / ANALYSIS
Nov 24, 2020
Carbon pricing rises as world's weapon of choice in climate fight
Can you put a price on pollution? Some of the world's biggest economies are doing just that as they wrestle with how to make good on grand pledges to tame planet-warming emissions.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Nov 23, 2020
The secret origins of China’s 40-year plan to end carbon emissions
With a September speech to the United Nations, Chinese President Xi Jinping put a 2060 end date on his country's contribution to global warming, taking almost the whole world by surprise.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / FOCUS
Nov 9, 2020
Japan faces high costs in achieving Suga's 2050 carbon neutrality target
The country lacks suitable geography for building many solar and wind farms, and the power sector is just one area in which carbon emissions need to be slashed.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Companies
Nov 3, 2020
Honda joins Fiat in paying Tesla for European emissions compliance
Selling regulatory credits to other carmakers has been a boon to Tesla, bringing in almost $1.2 billion of revenue this year.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Oct 28, 2020
South Korea's Moon targets carbon neutrality by 2050
Coal makes up 40% of South Korea's electricity mix and renewable power less than 6%, making its carbon dioxide emissions per capita among the highest in the region.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Science & Health
Oct 28, 2020
Japan sees muddled messaging on nuclear’s role in carbon target
Top Liberal Democratic Party officials have contradicted each other over whether new reactors are needed.
Bangladesh is a South Asian time bomb
Many Bangladeshis hoped that the overthrow of long-time leader Sheikh Hasina last year would revitalize the country’s democracy after an authoritarian lurch under the “iron lady.” Instead it has led to proliferating human-rights abuses, intensifying repression and widespread Islamist violence.
Tropical Storm Peipah brings heavy rain to parts of western Japan
Tropical Storm Peipah made landfall in western Japan on Friday, prompting the Japan Meteorological Agency to issue warnings of landslides and other disasters due to heavy rainfall in several areas.
Trump signs order reducing tariffs on Japanese autos
U.S. Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick and Ryosei Akazawa, Japan’s chief tariff negotiator, shake hands.
Tamagotchi hatches 100 million shipments worldwide thanks to ’90s nostalgia
The latest version of Tamagotchi, called Tamagotchi Paradise, is awarded the best digital toy at Tokyo Toy Show on Aug. 28.
Japan alerting consumers to cash-on-delivery problems
In fiscal 2024 through March this year, the National Consumers Affairs Center received inquiries and gave advice on problems associated with cash-on-delivery services.
London’s calling and sumo’s top division — along with Hello Kitty — are ready to answer
Yokozuna Hoshoryu and Hello Kitty, an ambassador for sumo's upcoming tour to London, at Tokyo's Kokugikan on Tuesday
Resonac creates 27-member consortium to pursue advanced chip developments
Representatives from member companies of JOINT3, a consortium working together on semiconductor-related developments announced by Resonac, pose for a photo in Tokyo on Wednesday.
Haru Nemuri’s radical new album refuses easy listening
Musician Haruna Kimishima, better known as Haru Nemuri, confronts Japan’s politics, nationalism and censorship on her recent output.
Overseas sluggers step up to bat in small-town Hokkaido
The Betsukai Pilot Spirits welcomed new players (left to right) Yuta Yamanaka, Roman Guthrie, Scott Bellina and Leo Jiminian this year, pictured here with Yassir Lachkar of the Ishikari Red Phoenix.
Xi — joined by Kim and Putin — delivers stark warning at military parade
Chinese leader Xi Jinping walks with Russian President Vladimir Putin and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un before a military parade marking the 80th anniversary of victory over Japan and the end of World War II, in Beijing on Wednesday.

Podcast

One of the many entrances to the Kabukicho neighborhood in Tokyo’s Shinjuku Ward.
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Tetsuzo Shiraishi, speaking at The Center of the Tokyo Raids and War Damage, uses a thermos to explain how he experienced the U.S. firebombing of March 1945, when he was just 7 years old.
From ashes to high-rises: A survivor’s account of Tokyo’s postwar past
By Alex K.T. Martin

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