The trading company Marubeni Corporation will build Japan’s first large-scale commercial offshore wind farms in Akita Prefecture in an initiative that may help the nation reduce its carbon footprint.
A roundup of the most significant news stories from Japan reported in the first half of December 2019.
The Indonesian coal mining conglomerate Adaro Energy, which is allied with the Japanese companies J-Power, Itochu, as well as a number of public and private Japanese banks, has been avoiding local taxes for more than a decade, depriving the Indonesian government of about US$125 million in income from 2009 to 2017, and has even been accused of provoking human rights abuses in the country.
A roundup of the most significant news stories from Japan reported on March 27, 2019.
A roundup of the most significant news stories from Japan reported on November 4, 2018.
A roundup of the most significant news stories from Japan reported on October 25, 2018.
