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A roundup of the most significant news stories from Japan reported on January 12, 2018.
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Today in Japan (12.13.17)
A roundup of the most significant news stories from Japan reported on December 13, 2017.
Japan to Set Up LNG Futures Market
Japan is completing steps to launch a derivatives market for Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG). While oil has long been traded in both spot and future markets, LNG remains very much the province of long-term fixed-price contracts. Japan is one of the biggest consumers, accounting for some 40% of world imports.
Rejoining the Nuclear Village
For several months we had been thinking that the success of the Nuclear Regulation Authority, or NRA, might represent one of the truly under-appreciated stories of 2013. For most of the anti-nuclear crowd the NRA could never really win much admiration because they dispute a fundamental premise upon which this organization was built — that nuclear energy could ever really be safe in earthquake-prone Japan no matter how strict the regulations.
Occupy Movement Anti-Nuclear Protest Camp
A small band of anti-nuclear protesters have made a camp in front of Japan’s Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry. One evening we visited them and asked them why they were there.
Exporting Fukushima Food as Foreign Aid
Japanese activists petition their government to abandon plan to export Fukushima food as Overseas Development Assistance.
