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G8 COUNTDOWN

BUSINESS / G8 COUNTDOWN
Jun 17, 2008
As consumers go green, firms out to exploit new opportunities
Japanese companies are taking advantage of the public's growing concerns about climate change to hunt for new business opportunities.
Japan Times
JAPAN / G8 COUNTDOWN
Jun 16, 2008
G8 tech ministers agree on teamwork
The Group of Eight science and technology ministers agreed Sunday to promote cooperation between their countries as well as with developing nations to address global issues such as climate change and sustainable development from a technological standpoint.
BUSINESS / G8 COUNTDOWN
Jun 12, 2008
Soaring prices pose challenge to G8 finance chiefs
Finance chiefs from the Group of Eight countries are expected to discuss Friday in Osaka how their economies can tame the soaring oil and food prices battering businesses and consumers around the world.
JAPAN / G8 COUNTDOWN
Jun 10, 2008
Oil shock spurs G8 energy chiefs' alarm, agreement to act
AOMORI — Group of Eight energy ministers have agreed on establishing a new international framework aimed at facilitating energy-saving measures to temper climate change and soaring fuel costs, at a time when crude oil is closing in on $140 a barrel.
JAPAN / G8 COUNTDOWN
Jun 7, 2008
The case for the 'sectoral approach'
As hosts of this weekend's Group of Eight energy minister's meeting in Aomori Prefecture, delegates from Japan will be actively promoting the "sectoral approach" to curbing global warming.
JAPAN / G8 COUNTDOWN
Jun 5, 2008
Aomori G8 talks face nuclear-energy nudge
OSAKA — With oil hovering at around $130 a barrel and pressure growing on the world's major greenhouse gas emitters to forge a new climate change treaty from 2012, global energy security and fast-tracking "clean and green" alternatives to fossil fuels are expected to dominate this weekend's Group of Eight energy minister meeting in Aomori.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / G8 COUNTDOWN
Jun 3, 2008
Food, oil woes worry Amari
Calling rising oil and food costs "intolerable," trade minister Akira Amari on Monday urged major energy-consuming nations to cut use and oil-producing countries to increase production capacity.
Japan Times
JAPAN / G8 COUNTDOWN
May 30, 2008
Japan finding itself in hot water
SADO, Niigata Pref. — Kyuichi Sakano, head of Niigata's fixed shore net fishing association, sighed in dismay one day last December as his fishing boats came back yet again without any yellowtail.
Japan Times
JAPAN / G8 COUNTDOWN
May 29, 2008
Global realities will make Toyako among most complex G8 summits
Global circumstances surrounding the Group of Eight summit have changed greatly, making an expanded meeting with emerging economies China and India more important than ever, according to the top Japanese coordinator for the July G8 gathering in Hokkaido.
JAPAN / G8 COUNTDOWN
May 26, 2008
Eat less beef and help the planet, G8 is told
KOBE — Experts gathering for the Group of Eight environment ministers meeting in the city known for its high-quality beef have a suggestion on how to reduce greenhouse gas emissions: Eat less beef.
Japan Times
JAPAN / G8 COUNTDOWN
May 26, 2008
G8 youths ask for 'strict' carbon cap-and-trade system
Fifteen youths from the Group of Eight nations and five emerging economies have urged G8 environment ministers to introduce a "strict international carbon cap-and-trade system" to curb greenhouse gas emissions blamed for global warming.
JAPAN / G8 COUNTDOWN
May 26, 2008
G8 meet sidesteps midterm gas cuts
KOBE — Environment ministers from the Group of Eight countries meeting Sunday in Kobe apparently sidestepped the major issue of setting midterm greenhouse-gas reduction targets for 2020 due to a divide between developing and industrialized countries over specific targets.
Japan Times
JAPAN / G8 COUNTDOWN
May 25, 2008
Climate confab kicks off in Kobe
KOBE — The invention of the Gutenberg Bible in the mid-15th century revolutionized printing and led to the Renaissance, mass literacy, and the industrial revolution, leading to the development of mass production and the use of fossil fuels.
Japan Times
JAPAN / G8 COUNTDOWN
May 24, 2008
Status quo may block climate pact
KYOTO — A weak prime minister, a divided bureaucracy and opposition from big business mean Japan's ability to use the July Group of Eight Summit at Lake Toya to forge an effective global warming treaty is at risk, a leading environmental activist warns.
JAPAN / G8 COUNTDOWN
May 24, 2008
Environment summit's elusive dream: Consensus
KOBE — Environment ministers from the Group of Eight industrialized nations and 10 other countries, including China and India, will gather Saturday in Kobe for a three-day summit on climate change.
Japan Times
JAPAN / G8 COUNTDOWN
May 1, 2008
EC to G8: Match our ambitious carbon goals
The European Commission will push members of the Group of Eight industrialized countries to equal the European Union's commitment to fighting global warming when the G8 summit opens in July in the hot-spring resort of Toyako, Hokkaido, a senior EC official said.
Japan Times
JAPAN / G8 COUNTDOWN
May 1, 2008
U.S. looking for 'accountability' at July summit
KYOTO — The United States' agenda for the upcoming Group of Eight summit in Toyako, Hokkaido, emphasizes health and development issues, making sure previous agreements are carried out in a publicly accountable way and guaranteeing that developing nations are part of a post-Kyoto Protocol treaty, said the top U.S. official coordinating Washington's role at the G8.
'So hot you can't breathe': Extreme heat hits the Philippines
A pedestrian cools himself with a folding hand fan as he waits for a ride along a road in Manila on Wednesday, as extreme heat hit the Philippines.
Did Japan intervene to prop up the yen? Analysts think it did.
A man walks past an electronic board displaying the exchange rate for the yen against the U.S. dollar (right) in Tokyo on Tuesday.
Town to block view of Mount Fuji in response to overtourism
The town government of Fujikawaguchiko, Yamanashi Prefecture, decided to set up a 2.5-meter-high screen to prevent tourists from taking pictures of Mount Fuji looming behind a convenience store.
Number of vacant homes in Japan hits record high of 9 million
A vacant house in Tokyo is seen demolished in January 2020.
Weak yen fattens tourist wallets in Japan
People visit the Ameya Yokocho market in Tokyo's Ueno district during the Golden Week holiday on Tuesday.
Kishida sets sights on energy and climate in South America trip
Prime Minister Fumio Kishida will use a policy speech in Sao Paulo to set out his vision for ties between Japan and South America, almost 10 years after former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe advocated for stronger ties between the two in the same city.
Yellow sand allergy: A health issue made worse by climate change
A screenshot of the Meteorological Agency's satellite image of clouds and yellow sand (in pink) on Sunday.
Climate change, chalky grains and the risks for Japan’s rice farmers
A farmer plants seedlings in Satsumasendai, Kagoshima Prefecture. Japan’s self sufficiency rate for rice is nearly 100%, compared with 38% for food overall, on a calorie basis.
Japan wants you to spend more with ‘luxury tourism’
Performers play a traditional drum unique to Wajima, Ishikawa Prefecture, in the prefectural capital of Kanazawa on March 16 to mark the extension of the Hokuriku Shinkansen line to Tsuruga Station in Fukui Prefecture.
Theaster Gates’ ambitious ‘Afro-Mingei’ brings Black Chicago to Tokyo
Theaster Gates' “A Heavenly Chord” lines up church pews before seven speakers and a Hammond B3 organ, a type of electric organ prevalent in Black American churches.

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