Energy

Hitachi Ltd. said Friday it will withdraw from wind turbine production in the face of a small domestic market and fierce competition overseas with rivals such as Siemens AG of Germany.

Japan’s trading houses are accelerating the withdrawal from or retrenchment of their coal-related businesses, as concerns are growing over coal’s global warming impact.

An alarm was triggered at a onetime nuclear fuel manufacturing facility Wednesday after radioactive substances leaked from materials that were being transferred at the facility operated by the Japan Atomic Energy Agency in Tokai, Ibaraki Prefecture, company officials said.

Japan's Hitachi will take a $2.8 billion hit to profit after it decided on Thursday to freeze its flagship nuclear power project in the U.K.

The Japan Fisheries Research and Education Agency (FRA) will team up with Toyota Motor Corp. to develop a fishing boat powered by hydrogen fuel cells that emit zero carbon dioxide, it has been learned.

Hitachi plans to put a U.K. nuclear power project on hold as negotiations with the British government over funding hit an impasse, all but closing the book on Tokyo's vision for nuclear infrastructure exports.

Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings, Inc. is considering a project to build one of the nation’s biggest offshore wind power plants, it has been learned.

The organizing committee of the 2020 Tokyo Olympic and Paralympic Games is planning to use the next-genera- tion energy of hydrogen fuel to light the flames of the cauldrons and torch relay, The Yomiuri Shimbun has learned. If realized, the 2020 Games would be the first Olympics to use the alternative energy source for this purpose.

As the world tackles global warming, hydrogen has gained attention as a clean-energy alternative to earth-polluting fossil fuels.

Japan and China confirmed on Monday that they will discuss restarting long-stalled talks on joint development of a gas field in the East China Sea, at the insistence of Tokyo.