Japan's energy problem

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The Fukushima crisis may have left Japan with a major energy challenge, argues Alliance Trust Investments' Simon Clements, but it has opened the door for a renewables boom

On 11 March 2011 the Tohoku earthquake triggered a tsunami which hit the west coast of Japan, and resulted in the catastrophic meltdown of three of the six reactors at Japan's Fukushima nuclear power station....

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