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Japan: Withdraw from Coal Power Plant Project in Vietnam Yoshihide Suga, Prime Minister of Japan Taro Aso, Minister of Finance Hiroshi Kajiyama, Minister of Economy, Trade and Industry Tadashi Maeda, Governor, Japan Bank for International Cooperation Atsuro Kuroda, Chairman and CEO, Nippon Export and Investment Insurance Takehiko Kakiuchi, President and CEO, Mitsubishi Corporation Mareshige Shimizu, President and CEO, Chugoku Electric Power Co. Kanetsugu Mike, President and CEO, MUFG Bank Koji Fujiwara, President and CEO, Mizuho Bank Makoto Takashima, President and CEO, Sumitomo Mitsui Bankin...

Jan 16, 2021 When Yoshihide Suga declared in October that Japan would be carbon neutral by 2050, he became the first Japanese prime minister to set a specific timeline in the country’s bid to become emissions free. As ambitious as Suga’s pledge may be, it’s far from being a pipe dream. The world is slowly taking concrete steps to address the climate crisis, and Japan simply can ill afford to sit on the sidelines any longer. Japan is as vulnerable to climate change as any other country in the world. Its 2019 typhoon season was the costliest on record, closely followed by 2018. W...