Renewable Energy
June 9, 2003
Renewable Energy
Osaka City to Use Hydropower at Water Distribution Plant
The Osaka Municipal Waterworks Bureau will install a hydropower system at the Na...
June 8, 2003
Renewable Energy
Iwate Prefecture Introduces Woodchip Boilers
In March 2003 the Iwate Prefectural Forestry Technology Center introduced a boil...
June 8, 2003
Renewable Energy
Marubeni and J-POWER Acquire Spanish Wind Power Company
Marubeni Corporation (one of the Japan's major general trading companies) and th...
June 7, 2003
Eco-business / Social Venture
Sharp Introduces World's Most Efficient Photovoltaic Module
Sharp Corporation will launch sales of a single-crystal photovoltaic (PV) module...
May 29, 2003
Eco-business / Social Venture
Consortium Formed to Develop Household Fuel Cell Market
On 16 April 2003, the Japan Research Institute announced that it will form a con...
May 22, 2003
Renewable Energy
Promoting Wind Power Generation at Ports and Harbors
On March 4, 2003, the Ports and Harbors Bureau of Japan's Ministry of Land, Infr...
May 16, 2003
Renewable Energy
Micro Hydro Power Generation with Treated Sewage
In a joint research project with the Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO), the B...
May 13, 2003
Renewable Energy
Banks Provide Project Financing for Wind Power in City
Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation, a major Japanese bank, and the Yamaguchi Ba...
May 12, 2003
Eco-business / Social Venture
Nippon Oil Launches Wind Power Business
Nippon Oil Corporation, the largest oil distributor in Japan, started the operat...
May 4, 2003
Reduce / Reuse / Recycle
Japan Ministry Announces Basic Plan for Sound Material-Cycle Society
Japan's Ministry of the Environment released its Basic Plan for Establishing a S...
April 30, 2003
Renewable Energy
Wind Turbines of the People, by the People and for the People in Aomori
Green Energy Aomori, a non-profit organization in Aomori City, built a wind turb...
April 29, 2003
Reduce / Reuse / Recycle
Kyoto City to Test Fish Containers for Experimental Resource Recycling
Kyoto City plans to start a demonstration test this summer (2003) that aims to e...
April 19, 2003
Renewable Energy
Citizens' Wind Power Plants Seek Investors
Two citizens' wind power plants are slated to begin commercial operation this sp...
April 16, 2003
Eco-business / Social Venture
Toshiba Develops Small Methanol Fuel Cell for Portable PCs
Toshiba Corporation has developed a small direct methanol fuel cell (DMFC) for p...
April 8, 2003
Renewable Energy
"Harmony with the Earth" 24-hour Music Broadcasting by Green Power
Beginning on April 1, 2003, a music channel in Japan known as Viewsic (operated ...
March 31, 2003
Renewable Energy
Fuel Cell Cogeneration System Moves Closer to Practical Application
Japan's Ebara Ballard Corporation and Tokyo Gas Company have jointly developed a...
March 21, 2003
Reduce / Reuse / Recycle
Hokkaido Housing Community Has World's Top Solar Power Ouput
On February 8, 2003, Misawa Homes Hokkaido Co. launched sales at a new housing d...
March 20, 2003
Reduce / Reuse / Recycle
Yokosuka City Recycles Raw Garbage into Automobile Fuel
In the fall of 2002, Yokosuka City in Kanagawa Prefecture completed an experimen...
March 18, 2003
Renewable Energy
Wood Pellets Regain Popularity for Biomass Utilization
The Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries of Japan unveiled its Nation...
March 12, 2003
Renewable Energy
Tokyo Metropolitan Government Promotes Fuel Cell Bus Project
In accordance with a fuel cell bus project stipulated by the Tokyo Metropolitan ...
March 7, 2003
Energy Conservation
Yokohama City to Install 100 Solar-LED Lightposts
Yokohama City, in Kanagawa Prefecture, is planning to install 100 energy efficie...
March 2, 2003
Eco-business / Social Venture
Residential Fuel Cell Development Reaches Practical Stage
Nippon Oil Corporation of Japan announced on January 8, 2003, that they have com...
February 17, 2003
Renewable Energy
First Wind Turbine Completed on Tokyo Bay Waterfront
J-WIND TOKIO, a Japanese company implementing wind power generation along the wa...
February 14, 2003
Renewable Energy
Natural World Heritage Site Yakushima Aims for Fossil Fuel-Free Society
On Japan's Yakushima Island, famous for its 7,200 year-old Jomon Sugi (Jomon ced...
February 10, 2003
Eco-business / Social Venture
First Fuel-Cell Mini-vehicle to Begin Test on Public Roads
Daihatsu Motor Co. received road authorization on January 15, 2003, from Japan's...
February 4, 2003
Renewable Energy
Concerts Set to Get Rockin' and Rollin' on Wind-Generated Power
Hall Network, Inc., the operator of five large "Zepp" concert halls nationwide (...
January 18, 2003
Eco-business / Social Venture
Nissan Releases Fuel Cell Vehicle
Nissan Motor Co. of Japan has acquired the approval by the Ministry of Land, Inf...
January 8, 2003
Eco-business / Social Venture
World's First Sale-Lease Agreement of Fuel Cell Vehicles
On the occasion of the world's first market delivery of fuel cell-powered vehicl...
January 4, 2003
Renewable Energy
Japan Green Fund For Renewable Energy Established
Japan Green Fund was established in Japan on 7 December 2002 with the aim of spr...
December 17, 2002
Reduce / Reuse / Recycle
DME Fuel Synthesized from CO2 in Power Plant Emissions
Kansai Electric Power Co., has successfully synthesized dimethyl ether (DME) fro...
December 10, 2002
Eco-business / Social Venture
Sharp to Launch Production of Solar Cell Modules in the U.S.
Japan-based Sharp Corporation, the world's leading manufacturer of photovoltaic ...
November 30, 2002
Reduce / Reuse / Recycle
Power Plant Fueled by Waste Plastic Starts Trial Operation
In the summer of 2002, Sanix Inc., an integrated environmental sanitation compan...
November 24, 2002
Eco-business / Social Venture
Geothermal Air-Conditioning in Classrooms
GEO Power System Inc. (headquartered in Yamaguchi Prefecture, Japan), a company ...
November 24, 2002
Reduce / Reuse / Recycle
Outline on Japan's National Strategy of Biomass Utilization Announced
On July 30, 2002, the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries of Japan u...
November 16, 2002
Renewable Energy
New at Tokyo City Hall: Rooftop Greenery, Solar Power
The Tokyo Metropolitan Government is proceeding with a greening project of metro...
November 11, 2002
Renewable Energy
Wind Power Generation in Resort Hotel
Japan's Daiwa House Industry Co. has begun generating wind power at a resort hot...
November 11, 2002
Eco-business / Social Venture
Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Develops Solar Power Generation System Using Emergency Water Tanks
Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (MHI) in Japan has developed a photovoltaic power ge...
November 8, 2002
Eco-business / Social Venture
Bio-diesel Fuel Production Equipment Now on Sale
A Japanese environmental venture company named Sebec Co. has developed and launc...
November 6, 2002
Eco-business / Social Venture
Wind Power Generation to Begin at Tokyo Bay in Spring of 2003
Japan's Electric Power Development Co. and Toyota Tsusho Corporation established...
August 27, 2002
Eco-business / Social Venture
Photovoltaic Power Generation by Clay Roofing Tile
Shinto Company Limited, located in Takahashi City, Aichi Prefecture in Japan, re...
August 26, 2002
Eco-business / Social Venture
Hemp Potential Attracts Attention
Many attempts have been made across Japan in recent years to explore the potenti...
August 26, 2002
Eco-business / Social Venture
Hydrate Pellet Production Begins
Mitsui Engineering and Ship Building Co., Ltd. (MES) has begun production of fro...
August 26, 2002
Environmental Technology
Environment Ministry To Develop Biomass Recycling Technologies
Japan's Ministry of the Environment, in cooperation with the Agriculture Ministr...
August 26, 2002
Reduce / Reuse / Recycle
Wind Power for Asahi Breweries' New Plant
Asahi Breweries Ltd., based in Tokyo, has set up a plant in Minami-Ashigara, Kan...
August 26, 2002
Reduce / Reuse / Recycle
Fuel Cell Power Plant Produces Biogas from Food Waste
Japan's first fuel cell power plant that produces biogass from food waste starte...
August 26, 2002
Eco-business / Social Venture
Fujitsu Starts Up Its NAS Battery System
Fujitsu Limited has started the operation of the NAS (natrium-sulfur) battery sy...
August 26, 2002
Eco-business / Social Venture
Developing Technology To Transport And Store Hydrogen
Japan's Nippon Oil Corporation is undertaking the development of a technology to...
August 26, 2002
Renewable Energy
Toshiba and Hitachi to Make Micro Fuel Cells for Mobile Devices
In Japan, Toshiba and Hitachi have both started development of micro fuel cells ...
August 26, 2002
Renewable Energy
Idemitsu Closer To Developing Kerosene-Fueled Fuel Cell
Idemitsu Kosan Co., one of Japan's major oil companies, has been pursuing the de...
August 25, 2002
Reduce / Reuse / Recycle
Using Waste Heat from Underground Sewerage For Community Central Heating And Cooling In Tokyo
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