Topics covered on the May issue:
Legislation and Policy News
- Six Institutes in India Certified as the Japan-India Institutes for Manufacturing (JIMs)
Survey and Business Data
- Japan tops the list of travel and tourism competitiveness rankings for the first time
- The population of children has decreased for 41 consecutive years
- The majority of Japanese companies in Russia suspended their business
-Company & Organization News
- Rinnai developed 100% hydrogen combustion household water heater in the world's first
- MOL participates in FMC for the first time as a Japanese company
- Obayashi developed concrete using woody biomass and realized long-term CO2 immobilization
- ITOCHU expands bio-derived bunker fuel supply business, collaborates with Dutch company
- Sumitomo Corporation progresses in Singapore ammonia fuel business, Kawasaki Kisen and others newly participate
- 8 global financial institutions establish carbon credit trading platform
- Mitsui invests in Australian company developing carbon credit business
- Shizen Energy started the "floating solar power generation" business of 150 MW, one of the largest in Southeast Asia
- Osaka Gas signed a joint venture for Desert Bloom (Green) Hydrogen Project
Other topics
- Installed "climate clock" at Shibuya Tourist Information Center, appeal in the city of the youth
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