the CCP''s rise to power. Recent research has contributed significantly to understanding of the process of change in China in the century or so before the Communists came to power and
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Solar power in Japan has been expanding since the late 1990s. The country is a leading manufacturer of solar panels and is in the top 5 ranking for countries with the most solar photovoltaics (PV) installed. In 2009 Japan had the third largest solar capacity in the world (behind Germany and Spain), with most of it grid connected. The solar insolation is good at about 4.3 to 4.8 kWh/(m²·day). Japa
CCP history derives to a large extent from the restoration to power from the late 1970s onwards of many of its key leaders.4 In this respect, it parallels the rediscovery of the New Fourth Army
Japan is the world's fourth largest energy consumer, making solar power an important national project. By the end of 2012, Japan had installed 7,000 MW of photovoltaics, enough to generate 0.77% of Japan's electricity. Due to the new feed-in tariff (FIT), Japan installed more than 5,000 MW in 2013.
Historically, Japanese anti-nuclear-weapons activists have been among the most vigorous in the world. But the desperate need for energy to power Japan's rapid economic growth and the complexities of post-World War II international relations together led the Japanese government to pursue nuclear power.
In addition to its economic benefits, nuclear technology also provided a symbolic way to rebuild Japanese society after the war. American bombers had physically destroyed Japanese infrastructure, including a large number of coal-fired power plants. World War II had also unraveled Japanese conceptions of their place in the world.
While Americans were preparing for nuclear annihilation, the Japanese were living in their own form of denial. From its shaky beginnings in the 1950s, the Japanese nuclear power industry flourished in the 1960s and 1970s and continued to grow thereafter.
Article Highlights The United States heavily promoted nuclear energy in Japan after World War II, and, despite an initially reluctant public, the industry eventually flourished.
Instead of embracing ecological rationality, and in contrast to Germany, the conservative leadership in Japan maintained a path for nuclear energy development but did so by becoming even more dependent on a global fossil fuel energy industrial complex that was eager to fill the gap resulting from a reduced supply of nuclear sources.
