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A Solar Future? Prospects, Problems, and Japan's Solar Energy Plans

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 May 2025

Asia-Pacific Journal Feature
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In the midst of the Fukushima crisis, Japanese Prime Minister Kan has tied his political future, and likely that of his party, to an anti-nuclear direction.

At the G8 in May, he pledged to forge an energy policy that would see the percentage of Japan's energy needs met through renewables such as solar energy double to 20% in the 2020s. This is a decisive turn away from the previous government mandate to increase the amount of Japan's energy generated by nuclear power from 30% to 50% in the same timeframe. He has followed this up by appointing an energy review board that includes proponents of solar and other green energy technologies.

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Asia-Pacific Journal , Volume 10 , Issue 54 , December 2012 , e71
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Footnotes

Between 2012 and 2014 we posted a number of articles on contemporary affairs without giving them volume and issue numbers or dates. Often the date can be determined from internal evidence in the article, but sometimes not. We have decided retrospectively to list all of them as Volume 10, Issue 54 with a date of 2012 with the understanding that all were published between 2012 and 2014.