Tag Archives: Abenomics

Japan in a Post-Growth Age via The New York Times

Posted on 2013/12/03 by norma field

TOKYO — THESE days you can hardly open a newspaper or turn on a television in Japan without encountering another story relating to former Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi’s call, after visiting a nuclear waste facility in Finland, for ending Japan’s … Continue reading →

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Can Abenomics Cope with Environmental Disaster? via Japan Focus

Posted on 2013/10/28 by norma field

By Andrew DeWit Geographically, the Global Climate Risk Index 2013 shows that the countries most affected in 2011 were Thailand, Cambodia, Pakistan, El Salvador and the Philippines.7 A more comprehensive and nearly real-time accounting of climate risk and adaptive capacity … Continue reading →

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Water, water everywhere: Incentives and options at Fukushima Daiichi and beyond via Japan Focus

Posted on 2013/08/13 by norma field

Andrew DeWit Japan’s ruined and radioactive reactor plant at Fukushima Daiichi has been an abiding source of concern among knowledgeable observers. There are a host of good reasons for this reemergence. As this Mainichi survey observes, it is now clear … Continue reading →

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Fukushima Watch: Abenomics Trumps Nuclear Issue in Fukushima via The Wall Street Journal: Japan Realtime

Posted on 2013/07/21 by Tomomi Yamaguchi

Media surveys ahead of Sunday’s upper house election show that Japanese voters are placing the economy above all other issues, including the future of nuclear energy use. That appears to be true even in the prefecture of Fukushima, home to … Continue reading →

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Green Shoot: Abenomics and the 3rd Arrow via Japan Focus

Posted on 2013/07/09 by norma field

By Andrew DeWitt This article describes the impressive, resilience-targeted greening of Japan, evident in nationwide deployments of renewable energy, radical efficiency, and other core aspects of sustainability. These developments are already underway, and include public- and private-sector actors as well … Continue reading →

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Fukushima Plant Operator Intends to Restart Reactors Elsewhere via The New York Times

Posted on 2013/07/03 by kojimaaiko

[…] The Tokyo Electric Power Company, known as Tepco, said it would soon apply to restart two of the seven reactors at its Kashiwazaki-Kariwa plant, the world’s biggest nuclear power station by capacity. That plant, about 140 miles northeast of … Continue reading →

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TEPCO seeks screening to restart nuclear reactors with eye on grim financial status via The Mainichi

Posted on 2013/07/03 by kojimaaiko

Tokyo Electric Power Co. (TEPCO) has announced it will ask the Nuclear Regulation Authority as early as July 8 to assess two reactors at its Kashiwazaki-Kariwa Nuclear Power Plant to restart them. TEPCO’s hurried move stems from its grim financial … Continue reading →

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Abenomics needs a reboot rather than nuclear restarts via Japan Focus

Posted on 2013/06/10 by norma field

Andrew DeWitt A June 2 article in Bloomberg by the deservedly respected University of California at San Diego Professor of Japanese Business, Ulrike Schaede, makes the argument that Abenomics requires nuclear restarts in order to work.1 Professor Schaede presents an … Continue reading →

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Stricken Japan nuke plant struggles to keep staff　via savannahnow.com

Posted on 2013/05/24 by norma field

TOKYO — Keeping the meltdown-stricken Fukushima nuclear plant in northeastern Japan in stable condition requires a cast of thousands. Increasingly the plant’s operator is struggling to find enough workers, a trend that many expect to worsen and hamper progress in … Continue reading →

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Stricken Japan nuke plant struggles to keep staff via AP

Posted on 2013/05/23 by yukimiyamotodepaul

[…] Construction jobs are already plentiful in the area due to rebuilding of tsunami ravaged towns and cities. Other public works spending planned by the government, under the “Abenomics” stimulus programs of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, is likely to make … Continue reading →

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