406 INDEX
Japan Nuclear Safety Organization, 84
Japan Petroleum, 155
Japan-US Nuclear Cooperation
Agreements, 36
Järvenpää, 366
Jilin province, 216
J-Power, 83
K
Kagoshima prefecture, 88, 115
Kamisu city, 163
Kan, Naoto, 27, 52, 80, 102, 103,
126
Kansai Electric Power Company
(KEPCO), 33
Kawaba Village, 142, 144
KEPCO. See Kansai Electric Power
Company (KEPCO)
Kien Giang province, 250, 252
kisha clubs (journalist clubs, Japan),
83
Kitakata town, 47
Koizumi, Jun’ichir¯ o, 59, 128
Koizumi, Shinjir¯ o, 128
K¯ ono, Tar¯ o, 128
Korea Electric Power Corporation,
381
Korea Energy Economics Institute,
189, 194
Kuzumaki town, 44
Kyocera, 56, 164
Kyoto Conference (COP3), 52, 53
Kyoto International Forum for Environment and Energy (KIFEE),
x
Kyoto Protocol (KP), 32, 52, 58, 70,
155, 186
Kyushu, 89, 102, 109, 112, 115–117,
121, 127, 175
Kyushu EPCO, 65, 66, 88, 112–117,
120, 121
L
Labor Party, Norway, 282, 289, 295,
298–305, 308, 309
Latvia, 332–334
Law on Conserving Energy, China,
205
lawsuits, 12, 91–95
LCOE. See Levelized Cost of Energy
(LCOE)
LDP. See Liberal Democratic Party
(LDP), Japan
Lee Myung bak, 184
Levelized Cost of Energy (LCOE),
249
Liberal Democratic Party (LDP),
Japan, 11, 26, 52, 79, 382
Liberal Party, Norway, 300, 301
Liquified Natural Gas (LNG), 184,
225
Lithium Ion batteries, 115, 169, 241
Lithuania, 333
LNG. See Liquified Natural Gas
(LNG)
LO. See Norwegian Confederation of
Trade Unions (LO)
Long An province, 250
M
MADE, 206
Maebara city, 175
Malaysia, 225, 236, 240, 252
Manifest Tankesmie, 295, 296, 302,
309
marginal pricing, 228
market failure, 152, 153
Masuzoe, Y¯ oichi, 159
Matsushita, 56, 155
Matsuyama District Court, 93
Mekong Delta, 252, 263, 264
Merkel, Angela, 281
meteorology, 212