Japan

Toshiba will start constructing the biggest PV project in Japan totaling 100MW with an investment of US$379.6 million in the Minami Soma coastline.

Japan’s drive to stave-off a massive power shortfall this summer takes another route.

Japan’s feed-in tariff or FIT is one of the highest in the world.

Hitachi expects its nuclear power business to more than within a decade due to growing overseas demand and post-disaster work at Fukushima atomic plant.

Japan’s new and generous feed-in tariff offers the world’s solar power developers a chance to profit in a stagnant market.

When completed, the solar project will have a combined output capacity of over 100,000 kilowatts.

Japan’s idled nuclear reactors will once again produce electricity despite widespread public opposition to nuclear energy.

Japan has approved the resumption of nuclear power operations at two reactors despite mass public opposition.

The restart of Japan's two reactors could spark a rally by uranium-mining shares, which have languished since the March 2011 disaster.

A new law requires the setting up a new nuclear regulator in Japan around September.

Kansai Electric will continue to prepare for potential rolling blackouts this summer despite getting the approval to restart its Ohi nuclear power plant.

Japan’s Prime Minister tells his countrymen that Japan cannot do without nuclear power.

Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda has stressed the need to reactivate two idled reactors at the Oi Nuclear Power Plant in Fukui Prefecture despite the fact that the investigations into the crisis at the Fukushima No. 1 Nuclear Power Plant are still under way.

How about wearing T-shirts as an energy saving method?

The head of a body of governors and mayors in western Japan indicated that they will approve the restart of Oi nuclear power plant in Fukui Prefecture.

Japan pays the price for taking all its nuclear reactors offline.