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October 2026latest coverage
Japan’s Perovskite Solar Call Tests Where Lightweight Panels Fit
Japan’s second deployment-support call targets film-type perovskite solar installations on sites with limited load capacity.
Read analysisJapan’s eMAFF 2.0 Rollout Requires Procedure-by-Procedure Migration
Japan launched eMAFF 2.0 on 1 October with revised application checks, clearer screens and in-system communication.
Read analysisJapan’s Nature Survey Separates Area From Habitat Continuity
Japan’s new nature survey synthesis brings decades of observations into one account of ecological change.
Read analysisJapan’s Two Plastics Demonstrations Test Different Routes Into Use
Japan has selected two plastics demonstration projects, one targeting bioethanol-derived raw materials and another recycled material for electrical equipment.
Read analysisJapan Makes Energy Demonstration a Sequence of Reviewed Decisions
NEDO’s new international energy demonstration call separates feasibility work from design and later delivery.
Read analysisJapan’s Battery Collection Gap Runs Beyond the Collection Box
Japan’s latest municipal survey shows wider lithium-ion battery collection alongside much narrower acceptance of swollen or deformed batteries.
Read analysisJapan’s Recycling Subsidy Starts With the Equipment Before the Smelter
Japan has opened an equipment-support call for more reliable supplies of recycled materials, including important metal resources.
Read analysisTeam Inbanuma Has One Week to Reconnect a Flooded Water System
Japan has formed Team Inbanuma after Typhoon 25 breached levees and caused prolonged flooding. The operation combines aggressive pumping, emergency repairs and mobile drainage under a one-week target as another typhoon approaches.
Read analysisJapan Is Making Infrastructure Suppliers Part of Security Review
Japan has updated guidance for screening critical equipment and maintenance arrangements across essential services.
Read analysisJapan Is Giving Infrastructure AI an Implementation Discipline
Japan's infrastructure ministry has set a national approach for applying AI across planning, construction, maintenance and public administration, alongside a physical-AI strategy focused on field robotics, data and process redesign.
Read analysisJapan’s Circular-Economy Review Shows Where Progress Has Flattened
Japan’s first review of its Fifth Fundamental Plan finds final disposal and circular-business growth broadly on track, while resource productivity, circular inputs, circular-use rates and public behavior need more work.
Read analysisJapan Is Testing Environmental Due Diligence Inside Two Real Value Chains
Japan’s environment ministry has selected Oji Holdings and Mitsubishi Estate Residence for supported environmental due-diligence pilots that move from risk identification toward internal decisions, remedies and disclosure across value chains.
Read analysisJapan Is Building a Local Carbon Chain Around a Waste Plant
Japan's Environment Ministry has selected a Koriyama demonstration that links carbon capture at a municipal waste facility with regional conversion and use, testing whether public infrastructure can anchor a local carbon-utilisation chain.
Read analysisJapan Is Moving Nature Finance From Disclosure Toward Investment Decisions
Japan's environment ministry has issued voluntary nature-finance guidelines and opened a model program for financial institutions.
Read analysisJapan Is Asking Which Infrastructure Still Needs to Exist
Japan’s infrastructure-management consultation moves beyond maintenance technique to a harder question: how shrinking municipalities should reorganize assets and services they can no longer manage one by one.
Read analysisJapan Is Testing Four Routes to Lower-Carbon Data Centers
Japan's Environment Ministry has selected four data-center demonstrations covering waste-heat recovery, renewable cooling, workload optimization and direct-current protection.
Read analysisJapan Is Asking When Repowering Is Still the Same Project
Japan has opened consultation on rules for a streamlined environmental-assessment document for replacement infrastructure. The proposal relies on evidence from existing operations when a new facility remains sufficiently similar in type, location and scale.
Read analysisTokyo Waterworks Is Turning Internal Control Into an Annual Operating Cycle
Tokyo Waterworks has placed its fiscal 2026 internal-control implementation plan alongside its fiscal 2025 evaluation report.
Read analysisTokyo Gives Water Operations and Asset Renewal Different Clocks
Tokyo Waterworks Management Plan 2026 sets priorities for fiscal years 2026 through 2028, while the related facilities master plan governs renewal and resilience through 2035.
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