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Australia’s top-selling automaker has shown off a collection of big and small hydrogen-powered vehicles in an event designed to spark conversation about its potential as mainstream, pollution-cutting transport technology. The Toyota Hydrogen Showcase, which will tour other Australian capitals over the next two months, ranges from a hydrogen fuel-cell bus …

A Japan’s leading trading company has reportedly offered Pakistan to sell Russian oil and Nigerian Liquified Natural Gas (LNG) to Pakistan at 35 per cent less than the global market’s prices. The Japanese company partners with an Irish company for the purpose. It is learnt that the representative of the …

Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings (TEPCO) said on Monday that it had won the rights to develop up to 1.9 gigawatts (GW) of floating offshore wind capacity across two projects in Scotland together with Norway-based company Vargronn. Many once-conventional energy and power companies around the globe are switching their attention …

Japan should stop perpetuating nuclear colonialism, and instead respect the sovereignty and self-determination of Pacific nations regarding the planned discharge of radioactive wastewater from the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant, a New Zealand sociologist has said. The social aspects and major country relations around Japan’s decision to release the radioactive …

Japan and a group of 10 other countries in Asia have agreed to pursue “practical pathways” for carbon neutrality through coordinated steps such as developing hydrogen supply chains and setting decarbonization standards while ensuring energy security. The agreement was reached as the group of 11 partner countries on March 4 …

Japan’s government pledged financial and technological support to help ASEAN countries accelerate their efforts to decarbonise their economies and combat global climate change, its industry minister said on Saturday. Energy-poor Japan aims to turn into the world’s leading hydrogen economy to reduce dependence on traditional polluting fossil fuels such as …

Japan’s inventories of liquefied natural gas has surged since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, government data showed, in an effort to address concerns over potential disruptions of the biggest portion of fuel for power generation in the country. LNG inventories in Japan stood at 5.9 million tons as of the end …

Japan is concerned that a proposed revision to Australia’s gas security guidelines could undermine LNG trade practice and investments, a senior Japanese government official told S&P Global Commodity Insights Feb. 22, adding that Tokyo will formally submit a response to the Australian government on Feb. 23. “As Japan, we steadily …

Official Tokyo has joined the ceiling of prices for petroleum products from Russia introduced by the European Union, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Japan reported. The limit is being introduced “in connection with the current situation in Ukraine and as a contribution to international efforts being made to solve …

Officials from Pacific island nations will meet Japan’s prime minister in March in an effort to halt the planned release of water from the tsunami-damaged Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant into the Pacific Ocean, a regional leader said. Plans to dispose of Fukushima water over four decades are a source of …