Reactor makers look abroad as home market fizzles
The Fukushima meltdowns and the continuing radiation crisis may have turned the public off of atomic energy at home, but it's full steam ahead for Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and Japan's heavy industries when it comes to exporting that technology to power-hungry economies abroad. The ...
The United States will allow exports of domestically produced liquefied natural gas to Japan and other countries to which it is not bound by free-trade agreements.
Brewers set out to take sake global
Ambitious sake brewers have turned to foreign markets in an attempt to replicate wine's global success. Exports of sake, which is essentially a rice wine locally referred to as "nihonshu," have been growing in recent years, and trade fairs and competition events have become common. ...
