Coal-fired power generation accounted for 30.8 percent of Japan’s total power in fiscal 2022. Since fiscal 2012, the ratio has remained around 30 percent, and the government aims to reduce the ...
A state-of-the-art coal-fired power plant that will soon go online in the seaside town of Taketoyo in Aichi Prefecture is expected to help alleviate Japan’s electricity supply shortage.
AKABIRA, Hokkaido -- A former coal mine here that was closed in 1994 is still attracting visitors aspiring to see the rare sight of a shaft mouth. The former Sumitomo Akabira Coal Mine in the city ...
To keep the lights on, resource-poor Japan has hiked imports of natural gas, coal and oil while increasing solar power. But ...
REUTERS/Kim Kyung-Hoon Japan has decided to gradually reduce its imports of Russian coal, the government said Friday, in a coordinated move with the world's largest economic powers to tighten ...
In recent years the site has served as a backdrop for documentaries, films, and even pop culture phenomena like the James ...
Cast as Japan’s single largest aid project to date, the 1,200-megawatt Matarbari coal power plant in southeastern Bangladesh cost a whopping $6 billion and employed Japanese companies as ...
Natural gas producers, exporters and trading firms are banking on Asia - the world's largest and fastest-growing power market ...
The United States has withdrawn from a climate agreement where rich nations have pledged billions of dollars to help a small ...
Displaced by a massive coal power plant, a group of women in Matarbari have turned to embroidery to craft a future.
Interfax is reporting that a coal liquefaction facility will be built in the Jilin province of north-eastern China, with help from the Japanese company Universe Gas and Oil Co. Reportedly ...
JAKARTA (AFP): Japan's ambassador to Indonesia has called on Jakarta to end its recent ban on coal exports, which he said has had a "serious impact" on the world's third-biggest economy.