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WARMING

Japan Times
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 13, 2015
Abe says Japan will not sacrifice growth as world agrees to combat climate change
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe says Japan intends to balance efforts to fight global warming without sacrificing economic growth.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Dec 7, 2015
Forest protection efforts need to be refocused
If the climate negotiators meeting in Paris are truly interested in halting forest loss and bringing climate change under control, they must address the underlying causes of these problems.
COMMENTARY / World
Dec 3, 2015
The climate-terror connection
Where climate change threatens to lay waste to the environment, fanatics have banded together to lay waste to civilization.
COMMENTARY / Japan
Dec 1, 2015
Climate change can fuel Asia's next economic boom
Asia should go clean and green as that's where the smart money is heading over the next 20 years.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Politics
Dec 1, 2015
Abe, Hollande call for international solidarity against terrorism
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and French President Francois Hollande called Monday for international solidarity against terrorism in the wake of the deadly Nov. 13 terrorist attacks in Paris.
JAPAN
Dec 1, 2015
Abe slates Dec. 11-13 India trip during meeting with Modi in Paris
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe will visit India from Dec. 11 to 13, according to the Foreign Ministry in Tokyo.
JAPAN / Politics
Nov 29, 2015
Abe leaves for France to attend U.N. climate summit
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe left for France on Sunday to attend a U.N. climate summit in Paris as part of a four-day trip which will also include a visit to Luxembourg.
JAPAN
Nov 20, 2015
Test begins to store carbon dioxide under seabed off Hokkaido
A trial operation for capturing carbon dioxide emitted by factories and power plants for undersea storage began Friday at the nation's first major facility for that purpose in Hokkaido.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Nov 18, 2015
OECD to end public financing of coal-fired power generation
Japan and other members of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development will end public financing of coal-fired power generation in principle from 2017 to help rein in global warming, Japanese officials said Wednesday.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Oct 5, 2015
Leaving our children nothing
If we set our minds to it, we could be the first in human history to leave our children nothing: no greenhouse gas emissions, no poverty and no biodiversity loss.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Politics
Sep 28, 2015
Abe pledges promotion of women's empowerment as next year's G7 chair
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe vowed to further promote women's empowerment initiatives next year when Japan hosts the summit of the Group of Seven industrialized nations.
COMMENTARY / World
Sep 23, 2015
Securing a sustainable future
The decisions taken this year, at the Sustainable Development Goals summit and at the climate conference in Paris in December, will have a lasting impact on our planet's future.
Japan Times
WORLD
Sep 1, 2015
Obama urges reaching climate deal in Paris 'while we still can'
President Barack Obama said on Monday that world leaders must agree to cut carbon emissions at a U.N. summit in December because the climate is changing faster than efforts to curb global warming.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Aug 11, 2015
Curbing global warming: mission impossible?
There is a 'mission impossible' quality to curbing global warming, though few say it so openly. The dependence of economic growth on fossil fules seems to strong to overcome.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Aug 10, 2015
Heed Pope Francis' call to protect the Amazon
When world leaders meet at the U.N. Climate Change Conference in Paris later this year to craft a response to the challenges of global warming, they should put in place policies to protect tropical forests and the people who make them their home.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Aug 3, 2015
No agnostics in the climate foxhole
Some 97 percent of scientists endorse the position that humans are causing global warming. A consensus of such magnitude is as close as we ever get to a recognized scientific fact.
BUSINESS
Jul 30, 2015
Japan's reliance on coal, especially clean tech, poses costly challenge to cut emissions
Japan will depend on new coal technology that's more than twice the cost of traditional plants to meet its targets on reducing global warming pollution.
COMMENTARY / World
Jul 13, 2015
Climate change conference's smoke and mirrors
The story that the producers of the 2015 Paris Climate Change Conference will ask viewers to believe relies on technologies that are no more effective than smoke and mirrors.
Japan Times
WORLD / Science & Health
Jul 10, 2015
Global warming shrinking presence of vital bumblebees in Northern Hemisphere
Global warming is shrinking the terrain where bumblebees live in North America and Europe, with these vital pollinators departing the southernmost and hottest parts of their ranges while failing to move north into cooler climes, scientists say.
Japanese stripper bids to have her porn movies taken off internet
Plaintiff Miyuki Ariga (left) speaks at a news conference along with her lawyer, Yoshitomo Morohashi, after filing a lawsuit at the Tokyo District Court on Monday.
Yen’s fragility raises specter of a new currency war in Asia
Suspected intervention to drag the yen off a 34-year low against the dollar is already seen as unlikely to have a lasting effect if Japan continues alone.
Ishin struggles to set itself apart from other parties
Nippon Ishin no Kai Secretary-General Fumitake Fujita (right) speaks beside Yui Kanazawa, the party's candidate in the Tokyo 15th district by-election on April 28. Nippon Ishin lost in this by-election as well as another in Nagasaki held on the same day.
Online booking for Mount Fuji climb to open on May 20
Visitors climb the slopes of Mount Fuji, Japan's highest peak at 3,776 meters. From May 20, climbers will have access to a new online booking system for Mount Fuji's most popular Yoshida trail in Yamanashi Prefecture.
In Japan, 68,000 people over 65 projected to die alone at home this year
As Japan grapples with its population's rapid aging, supporting people who live and age alone is looming larger on the policy agenda.
New Taiwan president to set tone for ties with China at inauguration
Taiwan President-elect Lai Ching-te arrives at the CyberSec 2024 Exhibition in Taipei on Wednesday.
Ishin struggles to set itself apart from other parties
Nippon Ishin no Kai Secretary-General Fumitake Fujita (right) speaks beside Yui Kanazawa, the party's candidate in the Tokyo 15th district by-election on April 28. Nippon Ishin lost in this by-election as well as another in Nagasaki held on the same day.
In Japan, 68,000 people over 65 projected to die alone at home this year
As Japan grapples with its population's rapid aging, supporting people who live and age alone is looming larger on the policy agenda.
In a rare event, the Northern Lights show up in Hokkaido
The Northern Lights in Nayoro, Hokkaido, on Saturday
Is black the new green for Japan’s flagging tea farmers?
George Guttridge-Smith brews tea at Kyoto Obubu Tea Farm in Wazuka, Kyoto Prefecture, where he serves as head of international development.

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