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Japan Times
BUSINESS
Sep 23, 2016
Trump pitches jobs to blue-collar Ohio, oil pipeline across sacred lands, coal industry revival
Shiny new Jeep Wranglers and Cherokees, lined up in their thousands, wait to be shipped out by train from the Chrysler plant in Toledo, Ohio, where Donald Trump has come to court blue-collar voters with promises of jobs.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Sep 20, 2016
Japan steelmakers suffer as China squeezes coal industry, sending fuel price soaring above $200
The nation's steel makers are set to pay for China's effort to manage its coal industry as a surge in metallurgical prices flow through to quarterly supply contracts.
COMMENTARY / World
Sep 4, 2016
Unintended consequences of energy and climate policy
Governments everywhere are finding that moves toward energy reliability, energy affordability and cleaner energy are having the opposite results from those intended.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC / Society
Aug 15, 2016
Undermining China: towns sink after mines close
Deep in the coal heartlands of northern Shanxi province, people in the village of Helin are fighting a losing battle as the ground beneath them crumbles.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Jun 14, 2016
Japan unswayed by pressure to end support for coal power
Faced with increasing calls from environmentalists to phase out coal, Japan is standing by its support of the fossil fuel, saying it will help developing countries adopt the best available technologies for coal-fired power plants.
Japan Times
WORLD / Politics
May 3, 2016
Clinton treads on Trump turf in ailing Appalachia, faces backlash over Obama's 'war on coal'
U.S. presidential candidate Hillary Clinton talked to steel workers in the Appalachian region about their economic struggles on Monday, as she tried to win over blue-collar voters in a part of the country where support for Republican Donald Trump is strong.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Mar 18, 2016
Coal loophole casts doubt on China's will to enforce North Korea sanctions
Over two weeks after the United Nations slapped harsh new sanctions on North Korea, several Chinese shipping and trade sources say they have not been told of any curbs on the import of coal from the isolated nation — a lifeline for its struggling economy.
EDITORIALS
Feb 17, 2016
A setback for emissions cuts?
Short-term cost factors are taking precedence over long-term emissions goals in the government's energy policy.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC / Science & Health
Jan 24, 2016
False emissions reporting undermines China's pollution fight
Widespread misreporting of harmful gas emissions by Chinese electricity firms is threatening the country's attempts to rein in pollution, with government policies aimed at generating cleaner power struggling to halt the practice.
Japan Times
WORLD / Science & Health
Jan 14, 2016
Bid to mine 600 million tons of coal on U.S. federal lands tests Obama's green agenda
President Barack Obama's State of the Union pledge to better manage fossil fuel development will face a test within days, when federal officials rule on whether to open public lands containing more than 600 million tons of coal to more mining.
WORLD / Science & Health
Jan 14, 2016
Global mercury emissions down 30% as less coal is burned
Global emissions of mercury from man-made sources fell 30 percent from 1990 to 2010, in part from decreasing use of coal, the U.S. Geological Survey reported Wednesday.
COMMENTARY / World
Dec 22, 2015
Britain's long transition from coal holds lessons for China
Cheaper sources of energy, not government policies, serve as the greatest incentive for phasing out the use of coal.
JAPAN
Dec 11, 2015
Japan again among worst performers in climate protection effort index
Japan ranks among the worst performers in an index comparing the emissions of 58 countries and measures to protect the climate, far below other major emitters like the United States and India, according to a report by Germanwatch and Climate Action Network Europe.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Nov 27, 2015
Climate — the new danger to our well-being
The world needs much stronger emission cuts than whatever comes out of the upcoming Paris talks on climate change.
WORLD / Science & Health
Nov 26, 2015
Rise of carbon emissions almost stalled in 2014, study shows
A rise in world carbon dioxide emissions almost stalled last year for the first time in almost two decades without a recession, in a promising step toward cleaner economic growth, a study showed on Wednesday.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Politics
Nov 26, 2015
Japan to push coal technology despite OECD subsidy cut, Japan's environment minister says
Exports of advanced technology for coal-fired power plants will help fight global warming, the nation's environment minister has said, even though the world's richest nations has decided to restrict subsidies on such exports.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Nov 22, 2015
For the sake of Earth, let fossil fuels rest in peace
The fossil-fuel industry's success in safeguarding its own interests has come at the expense of the health of our planet and its people.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Nov 12, 2015
Japan pushes clean-coal technology; hurdles abound
For all the talk of a solar boom in Japan, coal still has a future, and potentially a big one at that. Japan's government and industry are backing emerging coal technologies they say are less damaging to the environment. While they are pushing the most polluting fossil fuel at home and abroad, the government...
COMMENTARY / World
Oct 26, 2015
Big polluters had better start learning to pay up
Big Oil, Big Gas and Big Coal need to accept responsibility for climate change and start making real contributions to adaptation, or prepare to battle for their own survival.
EDITORIALS
Sep 27, 2015
Misplaced emphasis on coal
The government and the power industry should rethink their emphasis on coal as a cheap alternative to nuclear energy in view of the impact on the nation's efforts against climate change.
Philippine bid to acquire used Japanese warships gains steam
Tokyo is looking to transfer Abukuma-class vessels to the Philippines as part of broader efforts to boost the defense capabilities of like-minded neighbors amid growing Chinese military assertiveness in the region.
Koshien’s dark summer forces reckoning for high school baseball
Koryo High School players greet their cheering section after beating Hokkaido’s Asahikawa Shiho in the first round of Summer Koshien on Aug. 7. The school withdrew three days later as a bullying scandal enveloped the team.
Akazawa's trip to Washington for tariff talks abruptly canceled
Ryosei Akazawa, Japan's chief tariff negotiator, had been set to fly to Washington on Thursday.
Confusion over Japan’s ‘hometown’ plan overshadows African development event
First Lady Yoshiko Ishiba (center, in white and blue dress) hosts an event on Japanese culture with the first ladies of African leaders on the sidelines of the Tokyo International Conference on African Development in Yokohama on Aug. 21.
Mitsubishi’s wind-power retreat a blow to Japan's alternative-energy goals
Wind turbines in the town of Happo in Akita prefecture. Wind power is a key part of Japan's alternative energy drive.
Koshien’s dark summer forces reckoning for high school baseball
Koryo High School players greet their cheering section after beating Hokkaido’s Asahikawa Shiho in the first round of Summer Koshien on Aug. 7. The school withdrew three days later as a bullying scandal enveloped the team.
Is Kishida plotting a return of the king? Or would he rather stay a kingmaker?
Former Prime Minister Fumio Kishida chairs a plenary session at the Ninth Tokyo International Conference on African Development in Yokohama on Aug. 21.
Japanese prefectures break with labor ministry on minimum wage
The ministry of labor has suggested a 6% minimum wage increase, but most prefectures reporting so far are opting to go slightly higher.
Philippines quietly deepening ‘unofficial’ defense ties with Taiwan
Filipino soldiers take part in a flag-raising ceremony on Mavulis Island during a visit by the Philippines' Armed Forces chief of staff, in Batanes, the Philippines, in June 2023. Batanes, a group of idyllic islands at the country’s northernmost tip, sits about 160 kilometers from Taiwan.
Are 'coolcations' the answer for Japan's heat-weary tourists?
Hikers on a trail in Hakuba, Nagano Prefecture. As extreme heat continues to grip Japan, a tectonic shift may be underway in the nation’s summer tourism scene as more people gravitate toward cooler destinations.

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