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Katsuya Tanigawa, general manager at Jera’s Hekinan site, the nation’s largest coal-fired power plant, in Aichi Prefecture. The company wants to demonstrate that it can blend ammonia — which does not emit carbon dioxide when burned — with coal in its boilers, which is prompting a debate over whether it… Read
Tsuru University Prof Takehiro Suzuki. COVID-19 prompted a significant number of people to move away from Tokyo, putting the brakes on a long-term trend of the population concentrating around the capital. But with the pandemic fading, people are returning to Tokyo, according to a government survey. Read
Fumiaki Koizumi, chairman of Mercari Inc. More than 90% of major Japanese companies are considering using, or have already adopted generative artificial intelligence in their operations, but many cite data breaches and authenticity as concerns, according to an Asahi Shimbun survey. Read
Hiroaki Inatsugu, a professor specializing in local government at Waseda University. Local governments are increasingly permitting civil servants to have side jobs in a bid to deal with labor shortages in various industries. Read
Kenichi Itokazu, the mayor of Yonaguni, Japan's westernmost island, who said he is deeply concerned about evacuating his 1,700 residents to safety in the event of China invading Taiwan, which lies just 110 kilometers away. Read
Naoya Araki, president of H2O Retailing Corp, whose subsidiary operates the Hankyu and Hanshin department stores, saying that many consumers have not complained about higher prices. Read
Digital minister Taro Kono, saying the government intends to maintain its plan to abolish health insurance certificates in autumn next year after integrating them into My Number personal identification cards. Read
Tokyo-based Otsuma Women’s University President Masanao Ito. The university plans to establish a data science faculty in fiscal 2025. It is one of many universities expanding their science curriculums in a bid to survive as the chronically low birth rate cuts into the overall number of students. Read
A spokesperson for the Council on Foreign Relations, a New York-based think tank. Read
Japanese Ground Self-Defense Force Col Taisuke Fujimura, saying the GSDF's Amphibious Rapid Deployment Brigade has grown in the five years since its launch to become a "partner" of the U.S. Marine Corps. Read
