Iran Press/ Asia: Japan's Prime Minister Fumio Kishida ordered the construction of new nuclear power plants; a decade after the Fukushima disaster, the order is the beginning of a "big change" in Tokyo's atomic energy policy.
Kishida told reporters he had instructed officials to devise concrete measures by the end of the year.
In recent years the country has also imported significant amounts of natural gas and coal to meet its energy needs.
But Kishida has renewed calls to reduce its dependency on these fuels and outlined plans for Japan to achieve carbon neutrality in 2050 at the Cop 26 summit last year.
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More recently, increases in fuel prices, partly due to Russia's unprovoked war with Ukraine, have prompted the government to announce more energy-saving measures.
The order of the Prime Minister of Japan to build new power plants and reactors has been raised in a situation where this country has embargoed Russian oil and gas in line with the positions of the United States and its allies regarding the Ukraine crisis.
Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida said in May of this year that the country made a tough decision to ban oil imports from Russia as a sign of solidarity with the "Group of Seven" and Ukraine.
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