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VIDEO: Is Tokyo the new Silicone Valley?
2014-03-16 22:18:24| BBC News | Business | UK Edition
Tokyo's technology start-up scene is beginning to take off. But can the Japanese capital rival California's Silicon Valley?
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Tokyo to reach CO2 targets without its carbon trading scheme
2014-03-15 17:10:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
RTCC: Tokyo will meet carbon reduction targets without the need to use carbon credits in its emissions trading scheme, mainly as a result of increased energy efficiency after the 2011 Fukushima nuclear disaster threatened a crunch in power supply. Japans capital, one of the worlds largest cities, became the first urban area in Asia to impose emissions caps and carbon trading at the start of the decade, blazing a trail for other cities that are using the market to control climate-changing gases. But...
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Tokyo cuts CO2 emissions but hoards credits
2014-03-15 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Japan Times: About four years after Asia`s first mandatory greenhouse gas emissions-reduction scheme was launched by the Tokyo Metropolitan Government, businesses in the capital have succeeded in drastically cutting carbon dioxide emissions without depending on emissions credit trading. Due mainly to the March 2011 Fukushima nuclear crisis, which reduced utilities` electricity supplies and triggered legal curbs on power consumption by large-lot customers that year, Tokyo offices and factories covered by the...
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Tokyo LNG Tanker contracts JMUC to build two LNG vessels
2014-03-03 01:00:00| Ship Technology
Subsidiary of Tokyo Gas Tokyo LNG Tanker has entered into an agreement with Japan Marine United (JMUC) for the construction of two liquefied natural gas (LNG) vessels.
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Tokyo bitcoin exchange files for bankruptcy
2014-03-01 10:36:44| Apparel - Topix.net
The Mt. Gox bitcoin exchange in Tokyo filed for bankruptcy protection Friday and its chief executive said 850,000 bitcoins, worth several hundred million dollars, are unaccounted for.
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