The Fukushima No. 1 Nuclear Power Station Accident in March 2011 caused radioactive pollution problems of neighborhood area and also caused steep decrease of tourist number who visit and stay hotels, restaurants, sightseeing attractions and so on in the neighborhood area. The decrease continued...

Here the author quantified Japanese standard Gross Calorific Value and Carbon Emission Factor for various fossil fuels used in Japan upon the request of the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry and the Ministry of the Environment under the cooperation of relevant industrial organizations by...

Energy Consumption Statistics of Japan that started in 2005 by Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry, Agency of Natural Resources and Energy is a large scale general official statistics in Japan in order to identify energy consumption by industrial classification and region. But the author...

The Fukushima No. 1 Nuclear Power Reactor Accident in March 2011 caused radioactive pollution problems of various agricultural, forestry and fishery products in nearby Prefectures and government of Japan took production and shipment stoppage order for these products immediately. More than two...

Current Japanese General Energy Statistics quantifies energy and carbon balance of oil refinery sector solely by input such as crude oil and output such as gasoline, and regards the discrepancy as a statistical error and does not count energy consumption or energy origin carbon dioxide emission...

The "General Energy Statistics of Japan" is typical assembled statistics issued by the Agency for Natural Resources and Energy under the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry and used as a basic statistics for Energy and Environment policy making area. The current version of the statistics is...

During the first and second weeks of February 2008, as a part of the member country energy policy review of the International Energy Agency (IEA), a visit for in-depth review was conducted for the EU committee, at which I was an expert from Japan. Based on the experience and observations of the...

The Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI) has been employing measures to address energy and environmental problems. One of these has been to impose, under the Law Concerning the Rational Use of Energy (Energy Conservation Law), regulations on companies manufacturing, importing, and...

One of the measures employed by the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport and the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry to address energy and environmental problems is to lay down, based on the Act Concerning the Rational Use of Energy (Energy Conservation Act), judgement standards...

Retail sales of industrial electric power were partially liberalized as a result of regulatory reforms affecting the electric power system implemented from the 2000 fiscal year, and trading on the Japan Electric Power Exchange (JEPX) began in April 2005. The JEPX was established as a voluntary...