Hostname: page-component-55f67697df-gmt7q Total loading time: 0 Render date: 2025-05-10T18:44:11.812Z Has data issue: false hasContentIssue false
  • English
  • Français

Megasolar Japan: The Prospects for Green Alternatives to Nuclear Power

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 May 2025

Andrew DeWit
Rights & Permissions [Opens in a new window]

Extract

Core share and HTML view are not available for this content. However, as you have access to this content, a full PDF is available via the ‘Save PDF’ action button.

James Montgomery, the News Editor of Photovoltaics World, suggests in his January 14 “Are Japan's Megasolar Plans Falling Apart?” that Japan's renewables revolution is stalled and its feed-in tariff (FIT) “an awkward parting gift” of former PM Kan Naoto. Montgomery's article seems to be a near verbatim copy of a January 9 piece that's presently behind a paywall in Japan's Nikkei Weekly, the Japanese version of the Wall Street Journal. The Nikkei article was titled “Son's grand megasolar plans stall as governors direct attention elsewhere.” Both articles insist that Son Masayoshi, the chairman of Softbank and Japan's most wealthy and innovative capitalist, has run on the rocks in his plan to drive a renewable energy revolution in Japan. Moreover, the title for Montgomery's now widely circulated article (being copied to thousands of sites just 19 hours after upload) clearly implies that the core of Japan's renewable energy shift as a whole is in question.

Type
Research Article
Information
Asia-Pacific Journal , Volume 10 , Issue 4 , January 2012 , e1
Creative Commons
Creative Common License - CCCreative Common License - BYCreative Common License - NCCreative Common License - ND
This is an Open Access article, distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-No Derivatives licence (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/), which permits non-commercial re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is unaltered and is properly cited. The written permission of Cambridge University Press must be obtained for commercial re-use or in order to create a derivative work.
Copyright
Copyright © The Authors 2012