Japan’s Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry is urging domestic LNG importers to speed up securing alternative supplies to Russian LNG and is also accelerating its own efforts to consider Continue Reading
Japan is facing an energy crisis that can severely hurt the world’s third-largest economy as it is forced to tackle a combination of a weak local currency, the fallout from Continue Reading
As Japan struggles to deal with the hottest early summer on record, Prime Minister Fumio Kishida says the country must quickly restart more of its nuclear power plants. For the Continue Reading
Japan’s electricity grid creaked on Thursday under the strain of Tokyo’s hottest June since records began, but a power crunch that could have deprived tens of millions of electricity was Continue Reading
Japan is asking Tokyo residents to conserve power, with unusually hot weather stretching the city’s grid as fears increase that the heat could last for longer. Electricity supply in the Continue Reading
Highlights METI requests exception for Sakhalin 1, 2 equity oil liftings No Japanese refiner imports Russian crude currently: PAJ chief Japan’s Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry has requested the Continue Reading
Japan’s Toyota Motor Corp (7203.T) on Monday said it missed its global production target for April as COVID-19 outbreaks and a parts shortage slowed its post-pandemic recovery. The world’s largest Continue Reading
Japan’s top three automakers saw their output in China slashed by double digits in April, highlighting the toll Shanghai’s lockdown is taking on manufacturers operating in the world’s biggest car-producing Continue Reading
Three days before a vote to choose their region’s next governor, a handful of residents in Kashiwazaki, a sleepy coastal town in northern Japan, stood by a road to hear Continue Reading
Japan’s Nuclear Regulation Authority (NRA) granted an initial approval on Wednesday for a Tokyo Electric Power’s (Tepco) (9501.T) plan for releasing water from the destroyed Fukushima nuclear power plant into Continue Reading
