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Wind turbines along a beach in Happo, Akita Prefecture, in September 2024
BUSINESS
Oct 17, 2025
Akita urges quick resale of offshore wind sites after Mitsubishi pulls out
The fledgling offshore wind power industry is grappling with high interest rates and material costs, as well as a pushback against green policies in some countries.
A Hindustan Petroleum oil refinery in Mumbai. Executives at four companies that account for more than 80% of India’s oil-processing capacity say they were caught off guard by U.S. President Donald Trump's remarks that the South Asian nation would halt buying Russian crude.
BUSINESS
Oct 17, 2025
India refiners to trim Russia oil buying as Trump sows confusion
India has flip-flopped between defying the U.S. and crimping Russian imports in response to pressure from Washington to cut back.
The Sakhalin-2 project is vital to Japan's energy security as it accounts for about 9% of its LNG imports.
BUSINESS / Economy
Oct 16, 2025
U.S. expects Japan to stop buying Russian energy, Bessent says
Russia's Sakhalin-2 project remains vital to Japan's energy security as it accounts for about 9% of its liquefied natural gas imports.
Kansai Electric Power plans to carry out geological and other surveys in Mihama, Fukui Prefecture, home to its Mihama nuclear power plant, as groundwork for next-generation reactors.
JAPAN / FOCUS
Oct 15, 2025
Kansai Electric to conduct surveys for new nuclear reactors
The government's renewed push for nuclear power comes amid a surge of new facilities with high electricity consumption, notably data centers and semiconductor plants.
New export restrictions include large-scale lithium-ion batteries used for energy storage as well as cathode and anode materials and battery manufacturing machinery, all technologies where China has a robust global lead.
BUSINESS / Tech
Oct 13, 2025
China’s new weapon in U.S. trade talks: Batteries
New rules require battery companies to receive licenses from the Chinese Ministry of Commerce before exporting their goods, allowing Beijing to selectively weaponize exports.
Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings plans to decommission some reactors at Kashiwazaki-Kariwa, excluding the No. 6 and No. 7 units.
JAPAN
Oct 10, 2025
Tepco mulls decommissioning some Kashiwazaki-Kariwa reactors
It would mark the first reactor decommissioning at the plant, which straddles the city of Kashiwazaki and the village of Kariwa in Niigata Prefecture.
A woman holds a flashlight during partial power cuts following a Russian attack on Ukrainian energy facilities, in central Kyiv on Dec. 13, 2024.
WORLD
Oct 9, 2025
Russian strikes knock out more than half of Ukraine gas production
Ukraine’s gas infrastructure has come under increasingly intensive missile and drone strikes since the beginning of this year.
High voltage transmission towers in Tokyo. Power traders are fueling a boom in weather data, which helps them to anticipate sudden price swings.
BUSINESS / Companies
Oct 9, 2025
Energy firms snap up weather services for trading edge in Japan
Weathernews is among a handful of companies cashing in on demand for meteorological data.
Solar panels at the Gujarat Solar Park in Gujarat, India
ENVIRONMENT / Energy
Oct 8, 2025
Global renewable power output overtakes coal for the first time, report says
Curbing coal power generation is regarded as vital by most scientists to meeting global climate targets.
The Fukushima Hydrogen Energy Research Field and an adjoining solar power farm in the town of Namie, Fukushima Prefecture, in March 2021. Japan's forward-looking reforms are embedding climate risk management into the core of corporate decision-making.
COMMENTARY / Japan
Oct 6, 2025
Japan’s blueprint for climate finance sets global standard
While no country has all the answers, Japan is demonstrating what sustained, organized action on mobilizing finance for the clean energy transition looks like in practice.
Liberal Democratic Party President Sanae Takaichi
JAPAN / Politics
Oct 6, 2025
Japan’s new leader to make nuclear center of energy strategy
A pro-nuclear stance would continue the policies of previous administrations, which have pushed to build new units and restart reactors.
Employees work on photovoltaic cell modules at a factory that produces the modules for export, in Lianyungang, China, last month.
BUSINESS / Economy
Oct 6, 2025
China is beating the U.S. in the battle for energy export dominance
This year, more than half of China’s electric-car exports have come from outside the OECD.
Construction is underway on a Project Stargate AI infrastructure site, a collaboration between three large tech companies — OpenAI, SoftBank, and Oracle — in Abilene, Texas, in April.
BUSINESS
Oct 5, 2025
Trump targets deals in pharma, AI, energy and mining before midterm elections
Washington is pursuing deals across up to 30 industries, involving dozens of companies deemed critical to national or economic security.
An underwater data center being developed by Chinese maritime technology company Highlander is seen under construction at a shipyard in Nantong, in China's eastern Jingsu province.
BUSINESS / Tech
Oct 4, 2025
China trials 'energy-saving' underwater data centers
One Chinese company is planning to submerge a pod of servers in the sea off Shanghai with hopes of solving computing's energy woes.
Kuwait, despite its vast oil wealth, is facing worsening power outages due to political gridlock, underinvestment and climate pressures — highlighting the unsustainability of fossil fuel dependence in a warming world.
COMMENTARY / World
Oct 3, 2025
Why the most oil-rich country can’t keep the lights on
Electricity was cut to 30 regions in April as temperatures soared and households cranked up the air conditioning.
Ukrainian servicemen observe the sky during a combat shift on the front lines in Kharkiv region, Ukraine, on Sept. 15.
WORLD
Oct 2, 2025
U.S. to give Ukraine intelligence on long-range energy targets in Russia
The U.S. is also asking NATO allies to provide similar support.
The Kashiwazaki-Kariwa nuclear power plant in Niigata Prefecture. Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings hopes to restart the plant's No. 6 and No. 7 reactors which have already passed safety screenings by the Nuclear Regulation Authority.
BUSINESS
Oct 1, 2025
Japan must replace nuclear reactors for 2040 goals, group says
Several of the country's reactors will hit 60 years of operation from the 2040s, a document from the group said.
Marubeni Ennex tanks in Chiba Prefecture
BUSINESS / Companies
Oct 1, 2025
Marubeni to lift Japan power business with new trading firm
The company’s power retail arm and its U.K.-based energy trading unit SmartestEnergy will each hold a 50% stake in the newly-formed venture.
Data storage tapes at the National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center facility in Berkeley, California. Data centers consume massive amounts of electricity and water, and that will only rise as generative artificial intelligence takes off in earnest.
ENVIRONMENT / Energy / OUR PLANET
Sep 28, 2025
Japan faces fresh energy challenge as it seeks to expand power-hungry data centers
The growth could have major effects on both Japan’s standing in the fight against climate change and its industrial competitiveness on the world stage.
The Japanese government provided subsidies of up to ¥2.4 per kilowatt-hour of electricity and ¥10 per cubic meter of gas from July through September to reduce monthly fees by about ¥3,000 in total.
BUSINESS
Sep 27, 2025
Japanese power and city gas suppliers to raise rates next month
Major power and city gas suppliers are set to raise rates in October following the end of the government's subsidy program in September.
Why I chose Japanese citizenship over permanent residency
Jon Heese (second left) takes part in a 2024 New Year's nihonshu barrel opening ceremony.
Doctrine forms the core of Sanseito’s strategy, with some caveats
Crowds attend a Sanseito rally in the city of Saitama during the Upper House election.
Former PM Tomiichi Murayama dies at age 101
Former Prime Minister Tomiichi Murayama speaks during an interview in Tokyo in March 2007.
LDP and Nippon Ishin fine-tuning deal to form coalition
Liberal Democratic Party head Sanae Takaichi (second from right) and Nippon Ishin no Kai co-leader Fumitake Fujita (second from left) meet in Tokyo on Thursday.
What you need to see at this year's Tokyo film festival
Chloe Zhao’s "Hamnet"
What you need to see at this year's Tokyo film festival
Chloe Zhao’s "Hamnet"
As they wrestle for power, Japan’s political parties must remember their base
Rengo's head Tomoko Yoshino speaks to reporters in Tokyo on Oct. 8.
Sumo is about to hit London and the West with a force previously unseen
Preparations advance on Monday for the Grand Sumo Tournament at the Royal Albert Hall in London.
Number of scenarios now on the table for who might be Japan’s next prime minister
Newly-elected leader of Japan's Liberal Democratic Party Sanae Takaichi (right) celebrates with Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba after winning the LDP leadership election in Tokyo on October 4.
Pace eyes great strides for Japan’s art market
Pace Japan Vice President Kyoko Hattori, the de facto head of the nation’s business, believes a larger, more lucrative art market will allow Japan to be more attractive for collectors.

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One of the many entrances to the Kabukicho neighborhood in Tokyo’s Shinjuku Ward.
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