Tokyo's 'Cool Biz' campaign, allowing male employees to wear shorts in the office, aims to improve comfort and reduce electricity use. The initiative, championed by Governor Koike, has faced swift criticism.
Tokyo's 'Cool Biz' campaign, allowing male employees to wear shorts in the office, has faced swift backlash. The initiative aims to improve comfort and reduce electricity use amid rising fuel prices.
Tokyo Governor Yuriko Koike called for international collaboration on green hydrogen technology, urging startups, SMEs, and local governments in Japan, Europe, and Kazakhstan to share best practices and capital to overcome production costs and infrastructure challenges.
Japan plans to build a 1-gigawatt floating wind farm in the Izu Islands to power Tokyo and the islands themselves by 2035, announced by Governor Yuriko Koike at a 2024 climate conference in Azerbaijan. The project would produce equivalent capacity to a nuclear reactor, but faces skepticism over its 2035 timeline, power generation forecasts, and technical demands, especially given the world's largest current floating wind farm in Norway produces just 94.6 megawatts.
