08-15-2015, 03:02 AM
http://www.politico.com/agenda/story/201...5?hp=b1_c2
GEOLOGY WAS NOT kind to Japan, at least where energy is concerned. What reserves the country has in fossil fuels is extremely limited or caught up in territorial disputes with China; in 2002, Japan gave up on domestic coal production altogether. With a fuel-hungry industrial economy to feed, Japan had been the world’s biggest importer of coal for at least three decades, overtaken by China only in 2011, according the Energy Information Administration. It’s also the world’s largest importer of liquefied natural gas...