TOKYO —
The amount of fissile plutonium Japan possessed in the country and abroad totaled about 31.8 tons at the end of last year, up 0.6 of a ton from a year earlier, a Cabinet Office report showed Tuesday. The total comprised 6.6 tons held inside Japan and the rest was kept abroad under reprocessing deals [...]

ScienceDaily (June 15, 2009) — In the future, will wind power tapped by high-flying kites light up New York? A new study by scientists at the Carnegie Institution and California State University identifies New York as a prime location for exploiting high-altitude winds, which globally contain enough energy to meet world demand 100 times over. [...]

By MICHAEL RICHARDSON
SINGAPORE — Cash-rich China is using a period of relatively low oil prices to improve its energy security and ensure that its economy has the oil-based fuels needed to sustain growth when recovery from the slump takes hold.
Should Japan, which is currently far more reliant on imported oil than China, adopt a similar [...]

TOKYO (AFP)–Japan and Russia have signed a nuclear energy pact that will pave the way for contracts worth billions of dollars, the head of Russia’s state nuclear agency said Tuesday.
The accord, which was inked during Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin’s visit to Tokyo, will allow for the transfer of Japanese technology to Russia and the [...]

TOKYO (AFP)–Japan and Russia have signed a nuclear energy pact that will pave the way for contracts worth billions of dollars, the head of Russia’s state nuclear agency said Tuesday.
The accord, which was inked during Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin’s visit to Tokyo, will allow for the transfer of Japanese technology to Russia and the [...]

BAGHDAD, April 27 (UPI) — Iraq increased its signature bonuses for international oil companies to take part in six oil and two gas blocks to a total of $2.6 billion.
Reviews of the Final Tender Protocol by the Platts news service suggest the substantial size of the bonus is more characteristic of a loan to the [...]

TOKYO, Jan 23 (Reuters) - Abu Dhabi’s Masdar, a clean energy venture, and Japan’s SBI Holdings Inc (8473.T) may invest up to $300 million in Japanese alternative energy start-ups through a joint investment fund, SBI said on Friday.
Masdar’s investment vehicle, the Masdar Clean Tech Fund, and SBI have agreed to each put up $10 [...]

TOKYO, Jan 21 (Reuters) - Japan’s retail regular gasoline
prices rose for the first time in five months this week, a
research body said on Wednesday, reflecting a pickup in crude oil
prices since mid-December.
The average pump price of regular gasoline in Japan was 106.6
yen per litre ($4.40 a U.S. gallon) on Monday, up 0.6 yen [...]

TOKYO (Reuters) – Oil headed lower for the first time in three days on Friday, after jumping nearly $6 in the past two days as the OPEC president called for more “severe” production cuts at its meeting next week.
By 0018 GMT (7:18 p.m. EST on Thursday evening), crude for January delivery traded down $1.15 at [...]

SINGAPORE (Reuters) – Oil rebounded by more than $1 a barrel to under $44 in light bargain hunting on Wednesday, after slumping 4 percent overnight on the back of lowered forecasts for U.S. energy demand and fears of a deepening global recession.
The market is looking ahead to producer cartel OPEC’s December 17 meeting, which is [...]