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President of COP31 Murat Kurum of Turkey delivers a speech during the opening ceremony of the U.N. Climate Change Conference in Antalya, Turkey, on Monday.
JAPAN / Politics / FOCUS
Nov 10, 2026
Japan to use COP31 to showcase environmental technologies
A key goal of the conference is to increase the world’s electrification to 35% by 2035.
An employee checks newly-assembled electric cars to be exported to South America at an electric vehicle factory in Zouping county, Shandong province, China, on Sept. 24, 2013.
BUSINESS / Tech
Nov 8, 2026
How China’s clean-tech machine is reshaping the global climate fight
Beijing sent $132 billion in clean technology and investment to the developing world last year — the largest such contribution of any country.
Solar panels on display at the Kaptan Bazar in Dhaka on Oct. 27
ENVIRONMENT / Energy
Nov 5, 2026
Bustling market in Dhaka shows shift to solar triggered by Middle East war
From the Philippines to Pakistan and Nigeria, people are turning to solar and batteries to cut utility bills or just keep lights and machinery on.
A flock of sheep moves among solar panels at Talatan Solar Park in Hainan Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, Qinghai province, China, on Aug. 5.
ASIA PACIFIC
Nov 5, 2026
China’s solar push reshapes traditional ways of life on Tibet’s high plateau
Early signs suggest China’s projects sprawling over hundreds of acres on the vast Qinghai-Tibet plateau are boosting incomes for some.
Glass-integrated perovskite solar cells are displayed in the Panasonic booth during the Ceatech event in Chiba in 2024.
BUSINESS / Tech
Oct 20, 2026
Panasonic speeds up efforts to turn windows into solar panels
Panasonic is targeting windows and exterior walls with “power-generating glass” that can be customized in size, transparency and design.
Power-generating wind turbines in Bac Lieu province, Vietnam. The country is sitting on significant numbers of stalled but largely finished renewable generation projects.
COMMENTARY / World
Oct 2, 2026
Vietnam can’t beat China with the lights out
Vietnam’s stalled renewable projects threaten its ability to meet soaring power demand and maintain its role as a key alternative to China.
Some solar project developers are turning to defunct golf courses as such sites can accommodate large-scale developments while limiting disruption to natural landscapes.
BUSINESS / Companies
Sep 28, 2026
Japan has no space for solar farms apart from old golf courses
Solar farms need good sunlight, access to the power grid and to be fairly close to residential areas. Many golf courses tick those boxes.
Frequent bouts of extreme weather are making it harder to accurately predict generation from wind turbines and solar panels, according to a new report.
BUSINESS / Markets
Sep 21, 2026
Extreme weather upends sunshine patterns in major solar markets
Parts of Western Europe and Southeast Asia got more sun than usual this summer while Eastern India and parts of the U.S. Midwest got less.
Solar panels at the Dechencholing solar farm in Bhutan's capital city of Thimphu on Aug. 30.
ENVIRONMENT / Energy
Sep 17, 2026
Hydropowered Bhutan explores solar to diversify and meet growing demand
Solar projects represent a new direction for Bhutan, where hydropower exports account for up to 15% of gross domestic product.
Sheep amongst solar panels in the Las Rozas solar park, operated by Zelestra near Seville, Spain, in June 2025.
ENVIRONMENT / Energy
Sep 8, 2026
Spain’s renewables experience shows battery storage needed for decarbonization
Massive investment in large batteries and the power grid is badly needed, and investors and foreign governments are paying close attention.
Millions of people are using their solar panels and batteries to generate energy and sell excess back to the grid.
BUSINESS / Markets
Sep 4, 2026
Almost anyone can make money selling electricity with AI, batteries and solar panels
Millions of people are using their solar panels and batteries to generate energy and sell excess back to the grid.
The first agrivoltaics projects were started in Japan in 2013. Operators were granted approval to install solar panels on farmland as a temporary conversion of land use, on the condition that crop yields exceed 80% of the local average.
JAPAN
Sep 4, 2026
Stricter rules put Japanese agrivoltaics projects at a crossroads
The stricter rules come amid cases in which solar power companies rented abandoned farmland and failed to sufficiently engage in agricultural activities.
Solar panels at the Yinchuan Fourth Photovoltaic Power Station in Yinchuan, in northwestern China's Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region, on Aug. 25
WORLD / Society
Aug 31, 2026
How the U.S.-Israeli war on Iran is reshaping global energy use
By dramatically raising fossil-fuel prices, the conflict has also been pushing governments, companies and consumers towards renewable energy.
Solar panels in the city of Minamisoma, Fukushima Prefecture
JAPAN
Aug 26, 2026
Japan to end subsidies for solar panels
Installation costs will remain eligible for aid in principle, according to sources familiar with the matter.
Floating solar panels are pictured in Lingwu, in northern China's Ningxia Hui Autonomous region on Thursday.
BUSINESS / Tech / FOCUS
Aug 16, 2026
China’s 32,000-kilometer solar trade route that battled U.S. tariffs
The route let companies to obscure work done in China and Indonesia to deliver solar panels to the U.S. without tariffs.
A worker inspects a solar panel at a factory in Dalton, Georgia, in November 2023.
BUSINESS / Economy / ANALYSIS
Aug 8, 2026
Trump’s homegrown solar push risks widening green divide
Trump announced a plan to impose tariffs and minimum prices on imported polysilicon used in semicondictors and solar panels.
U.S. solar manufacturing has expanded since Congress created tax incentives in 2022.
BUSINESS / Tech
Aug 5, 2026
U.S. weighs polysilicon tariffs to counter China in solar and chips
The decision, expected to come later this month, aims to protect U.S. polysilicon factories from growing Chinese ambitions in the chip supply chain.
Workers clean photovoltaic solar panels outside Fiotex Cotspin cotton yarn manufacturing factory at Rajkot, Gujarat, India, on April 14.
BUSINESS / Tech
Jul 23, 2026
India’s solar push idles factories unable to shake reliance on China
Domestic manufacturers face waits of up to eight months for domestic components to replace Chinese imports.
The roofs of new residential homes in Greehithe, England, on Monday
BUSINESS
Jul 15, 2026
Solar is sending European power prices on a roller-coaster
Daily power-price swings are getting more severe as a flood of solar is quickly followed by a supply crunch.
Pedestrians pass the nuclear plant that sits on the banks of the Padma river in western Bangladesh.
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
Jul 12, 2026
A nuclear debut in Bangladesh tests developing world’s atomic shift
The project is an audacious bet that nuclear power can meet the needs of an industrializing economy without breaking the bank — other developing nations will be watching closely.
Man arrested over operation of rogue cellular base station in Tokyo
The Metropolitan Police Department has arrested Yu Hai, a 31-year-old Chinese national living in Tokyo's Kita Ward, on suspicion of operating an unlicensed base station from a vehicle in Tokyo's Ginza district on Saturday.
Government betting on language app powered by anime and AI
Japan plans to develop an AI-powered language-learning app that lets overseas anime and manga fans practice Japanese through conversations with popular characters.
Jensen Huang’s woes evoke sympathy and disbelief in his birthplace Taiwan
Hsiao Kui-yu, 68, owner of Yuchan Candied Fruit, stands in front of photographs of Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang displayed at the shop, which Huang frequently visits during trips to Taiwan, in Taipei on Tuesday.
G7 diplomats speak out on Taiwan as China ramps up military drills
Foreign Minister Toshimitsu Motegi attends a working lunch focused on international crises and challenges during the Group of Seven foreign ministers' summit at the Quai d'Orsay in Paris on Monday.
今日吃瓜 Rapidus is said likely to miss mass production deadline
The Rapidus Analysis Center and the IIM-1 Innovative Integration for Manufacturing foundry in Chitose, Hokkaido
‘Godzilla Minus Zero’ makes monster debut at the box office
Takashi Yamazaki’s “Godzilla Minus Zero” marked the highest single-day box-office gross for a live-action film in Japan with ?910 million on its opening day.
A toast to Naohiko Noguchi, sake’s first living national treasure
As a teenager, Naohiko Noguchi did not intend to spend his life as a sake brewer, but he has since become a paragon of the industry.
Few signs of thaw in Japan-China relations one year after Takaichi’s Taiwan remarks
Tensions between Japan and China flared after Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi said on Nov. 7, 2025, that a Chinese blockade of Taiwan could threaten 今日吃瓜 survival and warrant the use of collective self-defense.
Mariko Mori predicted the future. She’ll do it again.
Artist Mariko Mori is currently working to bring the translucent human-sized “Peace Crystal” sculpture to a cave in Ethiopia. It is part of her foundation’s goal to place a permanent sculpture on each of the planet’s six habitable continents.
A legend reborn: ‘Ocarina of Time’ remake improves on the Zelda masterpiece
The new remake of 1998's "The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time" manages to somehow improve on one of the greatest games ever.

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One of the many entrances to the Kabukicho neighborhood in Tokyo’s Shinjuku Ward.
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