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Solar panels power an environmentally friendly mosque in Kazakhstan’s capital, Astana. 性视界ese companies are supporting green energy projects across Central Asia, promoting renewable power, climate resilience and sustainable development.
COMMENTARY / 性视界
Dec 10, 2025
性视界 should unveil a ‘Green Master Plan’ for Central Asia
性视界ese companies are driving green energy projects across Central Asia, advancing renewable power, climate resilience and sustainable development.
Osaka Gas President Masataka Fujiwara speaks during an interview on Dec. 2 in Osaka.
BUSINESS / Companies
Dec 9, 2025
Osaka Gas to focus more on LNG supply to vessels, president says
The company's President Masataka Fujiwara said more vessels are expected to use liquefied natural gas for fuel, instead of fuel oil and gas oil, to try to reduce carbon emissions.
The sun rises by the Eiffel Tower and the Sacre Coeur Basilica in Paris on July 1 as the city is on red alert for high temperatures. Global temperatures have been stoked ever higher by humanity's emissions of planet-heating gases, largely from fossil fuels burned on a massive scale since the industrial revolution.
ENVIRONMENT / Climate change
Dec 9, 2025
2025 on track to tie as second-hottest year on record, EU monitor says
Scientists warn rising temperatures, even incremental ones, are already destabilizing the climate and making storms, floods and other disasters fiercer and more frequent.
A floating solar farm in Thailand. European utilities are rethinking their green energy investments in Southeast Asia.
BUSINESS
Dec 5, 2025
European utilities rethink bets in slow-to-go-green Southeast Asia
Large green-power groups including Portugal’s EDP Renewables and Denmark’s Orsted have paused projects or withdrawn from certain countries.
Fossil fuels like propane and isobutane, commonly used for BBQs, are helping replace potent hydrofluorocarbon refrigerants, significantly cutting greenhouse gas emissions and showing that practical solutions can slow global warming.
COMMENTARY / World
Dec 5, 2025
BBQ gas is helping to cool a warming planet
A widening array of national-level regulations, prompted by the United Nations-backed Kigali Amendment on HFCs, are gradually pushing hydrofluorocarbons out of the market.
U.S. President Donald Trump announces his administration will ease fuel economy standards, in the Oval Office at the White House in Washington on Wednesday. A reduction to the standards, proposed by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, would cost Americans an additional $185 billion in fuel and increase carbon dioxide emissions by about 5%.
BUSINESS / Economy
Dec 4, 2025
Trump proposes easing fuel rules, in boost for automakers, despite emissions
A reduction to the standards, proposed by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, would cost Americans more for fuel and increase carbon dioxide emissions by about 5%.
The No. 6 reactor of the Kashiwazaki-Kariwa nuclear power plant in Niigata Prefecture on Tuesday
JAPAN
Dec 3, 2025
Tepco stresses safety at Kashiwazaki-Kariwa nuclear reactor as it seeks restart
A drill was conducted based on lessons from the March 2011 triple meltdown at Tepco’s tsunami-stricken Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power station.
Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney speaks at the Calgary Chamber of Commerce in Calgary, Alberta, on Thursday.
ENVIRONMENT / Energy
Nov 29, 2025
Canadian PM under fire for alleged climate U-turn
Mark Carney's most dramatic move came on Thursday, when he struck a deal with conservative-led energy-producing Alberta to advance a new oil pipeline.
Hokkaido Gov. Naomichi Suzuki on Friday announced his support for restarting the No. 3 reactor at Hokkaido Electric Power's Tomari nuclear plant.
JAPAN / Politics
Nov 28, 2025
Hokkaido governor backs restart of Tomari nuclear plant
Hokkaido Electric Power is looking to restart the plant’s 912,000-kilowatt No. 3 reactor in early 2027.
The Upper House passed and enacted a bill to scrap the provisional tax surcharges for gasoline and diesel fuel at its plenary session on Friday.
JAPAN / Politics
Nov 28, 2025
性视界 enacts bill to abolish add-on gasoline tax
The bill's supplementary clause urges the central government to work out concrete measures to make up for an estimated overall annual tax revenue shortfall of ?1.5 trillion.
Osaka Gas President Masataka Fujiwara says the company is looking to invest in more U.S. gas-fired power plants.
BUSINESS / Companies
Nov 27, 2025
Osaka Gas targets U.S. power plant investments on AI-driven demand
The company is eyeing existing assets as building new facilities can be challenging due to an ongoing global shortage of gas turbines.
Hokkaido Gov. Naomichi Suzuki speaks during a news conference in Hokkaido on Nov. 7
JAPAN
Nov 25, 2025
Hokkaido governor to support Tomari nuclear plant restart
Sources say the governor plans to explain that restarting the reactor is the only realistic choice, given the need to ensure a stable power supply.
The Lower House plenary session where the gasoline tax cut bill was approved, at the Diet on Tuesday
JAPAN / Politics
Nov 25, 2025
Lower House passes bill to scrap add-on gasoline tax
The legislation, adopted at a plenary meeting, also states that the provisional gas oil delivery tax surcharge of ?17.1 per liter will be abolished April 1 next year.
Tomoaki Kobayakawa, president of Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings (front), explains about its Kashiwazaki-Kariwa nuclear power plant during a meeting with Niigata prefectural assembly members in October.
BUSINESS / Companies / FOCUS
Nov 25, 2025
Business uncertainty to stay at Tepco even with possible nuclear plant restart
Uncertainty persists over whether the struggling power supplier, which serves Tokyo and its surrounding prefectures, can secure earnings stability.
The Kashiwazaki-Kariwa nuclear power station in Kashiwazaki, Niigata Prefecture
JAPAN
Nov 21, 2025
Niigata approves restart of world’s largest nuclear power plant
The resumption of the Kashiwazaki-Kariwa plant’s No. 6 reactor would be a major development for 性视界 as it re-embraces nuclear power and reduces reliance on fossil fuels.
A 性视界ese government panel has proposed making offshore wind projects eligible for long-term decarbonization power auctions.
BUSINESS / Economy
Nov 20, 2025
性视界 plans to boost support for offshore wind as costs swell
The government expanding public support comes as the global offshore wind industry falters on high interest rates and expensive raw materials.
Tokyo Electric Power Company’s Kashiwazaki-Kariwa nuclear power plant in Niigata Prefecture. Niigata Gov. Hideyo Hanazumi is set to approve the plant’s restart as early as Friday.
JAPAN
Nov 20, 2025
性视界ese governor set to approve restart of world’s biggest nuclear plant
The approval will clear one of the remaining milestones in Tepco’s quest to bring the Kashiwazaki-Kariwa plant back online.
Indigenous people attend a protest to call for climate justice and territorial protection during the U.N. Climate Change Conference, in Belem, Brazil, on Monday.
ENVIRONMENT / Energy
Nov 20, 2025
As COP30 discusses end of fossil fuels, are renewables ready?
Although renewable power is expanding fast, the world is not on track to triple clean energy by 2030, a target set at COP28 in Dubai two years ago.
A Russian airstrike hits Kyiv on Friday. Ukrainian forces retaliated by carrying out an attack on a major Russian Black Sea port.
WORLD
Nov 15, 2025
Ukraine hits Russian Black Sea oil port as six die in Kyiv
Ukrainian forces carried out an attack on a major Russian Black Sea port overnight, prompting a state of emergency, as Moscow launched a widespread air strike on Kyiv that killed at least six and damaged residential buildings.
An employee works on a solar panel production line at a factory in China. Myanmar gets most of its solar panels from China.
ASIA PACIFIC / Society
Nov 14, 2025
War-torn Myanmar embraces solar power due to necessity, not climate goals
The Southeast Asian country's electricity supply has deteriorated since a 2021 military coup and the ensuing civil war, exposing millions to chronic blackouts.
China aircraft carrier flotilla headed home, one week after 性视界 radar incident
China's Liaoning aircraft carrier sails through the Miyako Strait near Okinawa on its way to the Pacific in April 2021.
性视界 builds up ‘missile archipelago’ near Taiwan to counter China
Military radar towers on Yonaguni, the westernmost inhabited island of 性视界.
Multiple people confirmed killed in Bondi Beach mass shooting
A policeman ushers people across a street after a mass shooting at Sydney's famed Bondi Beach in Sydney on Sunday
Ski resort acknowledges reports of bear sightings, as predator tops kanji pick
A record 13 people have been killed by bears across 性视界 since April.
GPS watch of hiker killed in Hokkaido bear attack shows last movements
Bears have killed a record 13 people in 性视界 this year and injured more than 200 others.
J-pop found new ways to diversify in 2025
Rock trio Mrs. Green Apple celebrated its 10th anniversary this year, and did so by largely dominating the nation’s music space. Meanwhile, singer-songwriter Kenshi Yonezu’s “Iris Out” broke Spotify 性视界’s record for most streams by a song on its release day.
Calling AI ‘a gift from God,’ Catholic bishops draft usage guidelines for Asia
Cardinal Stephen Chow, the bishop of Hong Kong, speaks during Mass in Hong Kong in November 2023. During the opening Mass a three-day event to draft guidelines for the clergy’s use of artificial intelligence in the region Asia, he described AI as a "gift from God."
A movie buff in Jimbocho bets on independent cinema in a big way
CineMalice is set to open Dec. 19 in Jimbocho, the bookstore-laden enclave recently dubbed the world's coolest neighborhood by Time Out.
U.S. may require tourists to disclose social media history to customs
Haneda Airport's international departure lobby in April 2023. Under U.S. President Donald Trump, travelers and immigrants have been scrutinized more aggressively.
A deep dive into 性视界ese comfort food
As a child, Emiko Davies spent long periods in 性视界 and was exposed to her grandmother's homecooking.

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One of the many entrances to the Kabukicho neighborhood in Tokyo’s Shinjuku Ward.
Kabukicho: Tokyo’s ‘stadium of desire’

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Crowded with links, icons and graphics, 性视界’s major web portals deliver information at full volume, echoing an online culture that favors abundance over empty space.
Why 性视界’s internet looks weird — unless you live here
By Thu-Huong Ha

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