x PREFACE
Embassy in Tokyo for allowing us to use their premises for the 2017
NTNU Japan Seminar, for help with organizing that Seminar, and for
so many other forms of support. We would like to thank Japan’s Ambassador to Norway Tauchi Masahiro, and Tord Tukun, Charge d’affaires at
the Royal Norwegian Embassy in Tokyo in 2017 for their remarks at two
of our Seminars.
We owe thanks to a great many people who contributed directly or
indirectly to this volume. Especially we would like to thank participants
from the three NTNU Japan Program Seminars from 2016 to 2018 from
which this volume emerged, including all the chapter authors. We would
like to thank K¯ ono Tar¯ o, Steffen Møller-Holst, as well as those by two
chapter authors in this volume, Koichi Hasegawa and Hiroshi Ohta, for
their intellectually inspiring keynote addresses at our three Seminars. We
would like to thank several experts whose presentations made significant
knowledge contributions to this volume, including Geir Martin Haarberg of NTNU and his presentations on the Kyoto International Forum
on Environment and Energy (KIFEE) and green hydrogen, and Takeshi
Bessho of Toyota on the smart use of energy and materials. We would
also like to thank Hiroshi Okamoto, President of TEPCO Research Institute, Mika Obayashi, Director, Renewable Energy Institute, Ali IzadiNajafabadi, Bloomberg New Energy Finance, Japan, and Tetsuya Azuma,
Deputy Director, Electricity Market Surveillance Commission for the
insights they provided at our March 2017 Seminar on the state of renewable energy policy and its prospects in Japan. We would like to thank
Petter Nekså of NTNU and SINTEF, and Eric Zusman of the Institute
for Global Environmental Studies (IGES, Hayama Japan) for serving as
able discussants at two NTNU Japan Seminars.
We would like to thank Svein Grandum and Hiroshi Matsumoto of
Innovation Norway and the Royal Norwegian Embassy in Tokyo for
their expert advice and support for the 2017 NTNU Japan Seminar
and for this project generally. At Palgrave Macmillan and Springer, we
would like to thank Anca Pusca, Thangarasan Boopalan, Preetha Kuttiappan, Katelyn Zingg, and Timothy M. Shaw, International Political
Economy Series editor at Palgrave Macmillan, in which this volume is
included. Paul Midford would like to thank the Konrad Adenauer Foundation and Paul Linnarz (then head of KAS’s Tokyo Office), for inviting
Midford to present on renewable energy in Scandinavia and lessons for
Japan in a series of seminars at the Tokyu Capitol Hotel in Tokyo, at
Ritusmeikan University in Kyoto, and at Kwansei Gakuin University in
Embassy in Tokyo for allowing us to use their premises for the 2017
NTNU Japan Seminar, for help with organizing that Seminar, and for
so many other forms of support. We would like to thank Japan’s Ambassador to Norway Tauchi Masahiro, and Tord Tukun, Charge d’affaires at
the Royal Norwegian Embassy in Tokyo in 2017 for their remarks at two
of our Seminars.
We owe thanks to a great many people who contributed directly or
indirectly to this volume. Especially we would like to thank participants
from the three NTNU Japan Program Seminars from 2016 to 2018 from
which this volume emerged, including all the chapter authors. We would
like to thank K¯ ono Tar¯ o, Steffen Møller-Holst, as well as those by two
chapter authors in this volume, Koichi Hasegawa and Hiroshi Ohta, for
their intellectually inspiring keynote addresses at our three Seminars. We
would like to thank several experts whose presentations made significant
knowledge contributions to this volume, including Geir Martin Haarberg of NTNU and his presentations on the Kyoto International Forum
on Environment and Energy (KIFEE) and green hydrogen, and Takeshi
Bessho of Toyota on the smart use of energy and materials. We would
also like to thank Hiroshi Okamoto, President of TEPCO Research Institute, Mika Obayashi, Director, Renewable Energy Institute, Ali IzadiNajafabadi, Bloomberg New Energy Finance, Japan, and Tetsuya Azuma,
Deputy Director, Electricity Market Surveillance Commission for the
insights they provided at our March 2017 Seminar on the state of renewable energy policy and its prospects in Japan. We would like to thank
Petter Nekså of NTNU and SINTEF, and Eric Zusman of the Institute
for Global Environmental Studies (IGES, Hayama Japan) for serving as
able discussants at two NTNU Japan Seminars.
We would like to thank Svein Grandum and Hiroshi Matsumoto of
Innovation Norway and the Royal Norwegian Embassy in Tokyo for
their expert advice and support for the 2017 NTNU Japan Seminar
and for this project generally. At Palgrave Macmillan and Springer, we
would like to thank Anca Pusca, Thangarasan Boopalan, Preetha Kuttiappan, Katelyn Zingg, and Timothy M. Shaw, International Political
Economy Series editor at Palgrave Macmillan, in which this volume is
included. Paul Midford would like to thank the Konrad Adenauer Foundation and Paul Linnarz (then head of KAS’s Tokyo Office), for inviting
Midford to present on renewable energy in Scandinavia and lessons for
Japan in a series of seminars at the Tokyu Capitol Hotel in Tokyo, at
Ritusmeikan University in Kyoto, and at Kwansei Gakuin University in