A few months ago, I was speaking with a university student in Tokyo who had studied engineering. He understood energy systems well and was genuinely interested in infrastructure. But when…
Japan already builds some of the most reliable energy systems in the world. Its reactors, power plants, and industrial equipment are designed to operate for decades with minimal failure. Companies…
If you travel through Japan’s industrial regions, one thing becomes clear very quickly. The country’s economy is built on systems that run continuously. Steel plants, chemical complexes, semiconductor fabrication lines,…
This week marks the fifteenth anniversary of the Tohoku earthquake and tsunami. Every year on March 11, Japan pauses at 2:46 p.m., the moment the earthquake struck in 2011. In…
When tensions rise in the Middle East, the first signs rarely appear where the conflict is happening; they appear in energy markets. Oil prices begin to move, tanker insurance costs…
With open military confrontation now unfolding in the Middle East, I’ve been struck by how quickly distant events reach into everyday life. The Strait of Hormuz is thousands of kilometers…
In discussions about artificial intelligence, the word hyperscale appears constantly. At first it sounds like it simply means very large. In reality it describes something deeper. Hyperscale refers to infrastructure…
For a long time, I noticed something strange about conversations on climate and nuclear energy. Even people who are deeply worried about global warming often hesitate when nuclear comes up.…
Nuclear energy has quietly returned to the climate conversation. Not as a slogan, and not as a universal comeback story, but as a practical question: if the world needs to…
A friend once told me, half jokingly, that the internet feels free only because someone else is paying for it. At the time, I laughed and moved on. But the…
