Japan’s Energy Conundrum Rollout (Tokyo, Japan)
October 23, 2018Sasakawa USA and Sasakawa Peace Foundation held a roll out of Japan’s Energy Conundrum and the book’s Japanese language executive summary on October 23 in Tokyo, Japan.
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Book Launch for Japan’s Energy Conundrum
June 25, 2018On June 25, Sasakawa USA held a book launch for Japan’s Energy Conundrum at noon at Washington DC’s Army and Navy Club. Edited by Sasakawa USA Fellow Phyllis Genther Yoshida, Japan’s Energy Conundrum tackles Japan’s attempts to manage and balance domestic supply and demand for energy, changing global energy markets, its climate change goals, and its overall energy security in the years after March 11, 2011.
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Japan receives first U.S. shale gas shipment
January 10, 2017Author: Dr. Phyllis Yoshida
Categories: Energy and Technology
On January 8, Jiji Press reported that “a tanker carrying 70,000 tons of shale-based LNG arrived at a thermal power plant in Joetsu, Niigata Prefecture, run by Chubu Electric Power Co. The gas was loaded in Louisiana on Dec. 7 and transported to Japan via the Panama.” This shipment is a major event in U.S.-Japan relations; it is the first U.S. shale gas to reach Japan.
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Interview with Sasakawa USA’s Dr. Phyllis Yoshida featured in newsletter
January 9, 2017Categories: Energy and Technology, In the News
An interview with Sasakawa USA’s Dr. Phyllis Yoshida, Fellow for Energy and Technology, recently was featured in the December 2016 issue (Issue No. 13) of the APEC Oil and Gas Security Newsletter. Click through to read the full interview.
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Video: U.S.-Japan relations and ensuring the success of the post-Paris climate agenda
January 6, 2017Categories: Energy and Technology
Sasakawa USA Fellow for Energy and Technology Phyllis Yoshida joined a panel of four other experts on December 20, 2016 at a Brookings Institution event discussing the Paris climate deal and U.S.-Japan relations.
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