industry ministry

Familiar faces win ¥1.6 billion in nuclear public...
The Asahi Shimbun
Nearly 70 percent of government spending to regain public trust in nuclear energy has landed at organizations that employ retired bureaucrats or former executives of electric...
Activists protest government suit to have anti-nuke ...
Tents pitched in front of the industry ministry's office building in Tokyo's Kasumigaseki district serve as a rallying point for anti-nuclear power demonstrators. (Satoru Ogawa)
A citizens' group that set up three tents in front of a ministry office building that have served as a rallying point for anti-nuclear demonstrators said April 8 it will fight...
Japan begins world's first offshore test mining of...
The deep-sea drilling vessel Chikyu in February 2012 prepares for production testing following its arrival in waters 80 kilometers south-southeast of the Atsumi Peninsula in Aichi Prefecture. (Asahi Shimbun file photo)
Government-affiliated Japan Oil, Gas and Metals National Corp. has begun the world’s first offshore test mining of methane hydrate from seabed layers, in an effort to tap...
Government worries new nuclear agency will approve...
Yukio Edano (Asahi Shimbun file photo)
Japan's government is to strengthen its ability to veto the construction of new nuclear reactors, by writing a new legal framework that gives it the final say.
Japan to break down power supply monopolies from...
The Asahi Shimbun
Japan plans to separate power transmission and distribution divisions from regional utilities in 2014 at the earliest, as part of efforts to give consumers more choice when it...
METI protesters ignore official eviction notice
Anti-nuclear power activists protest an industry ministry order to remove tents next to the ministry's front gate on Jan. 27 in Tokyo's Kasumigaseki district. (Hikaru Uchida)
Anti-nuclear protesters defied a government order to vacate the area in front of the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry in Tokyo’s Kasumigaseki district on Jan. 27.
Ministry told to redirect subsidies for stalled...
An 800-million-yen public bath facility under construction in Kaminoseki, Yamaguchi Prefecture, with subsidies related to a new nuclear power plant (The Asahi Shimbun)
With the nuclear industry still reeling from the effects of the March 11 earthquake, government auditors told the industry ministry to redirect 65.7 billion yen ($857 million)...
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