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☆ I'm a dad of 2 living in Tokyo. My 7-year-old walks to school by himself, and I'm usually the only dad at pickup.
  + stars: | 2023-12-01 | by ( Tim Hornyak | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +4 min
AdvertisementI've noticed I'm often the only father and the only non-Japanese person at my son's school pickup. At my son's elementary school Sports Day, a teacher stood on a raised platform conducting the students, almost like a drill sergeant. In my son's elementary school, kids must help clean the classrooms, hallways, bathrooms, toilets, and sometimes the library. My son walks to his elementary school by himself. While Tokyo is a very safe city, elementary students usually carry a security buzzer to notify passersby in case of dangerous strangers.
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☆ A Bill Gates-based photovoltaic technology that may be solar energy's future
  + stars: | 2023-05-20 | by ( Tim Hornyak | ) www.cnbc.com   time to read: +5 min
Solar panels accounted for nearly 5% of U.S. energy production last year, up almost 11-fold from 10 years ago and enough to power about 25 million households. Backers of perovskite-based solar cells say they can outperform silicon in at least two ways and accelerate efforts in the race to fight climate change. Perovskite cells are very thin — less than 1 micrometer — and can be painted or sprayed on surfaces, making them relatively cheap to produce. Backing next-generation climate technologyCompanies around the world are starting to commercialize perovskite panels. CubicPV, based in Massachusetts and Texas, has been developing tandem modules since 2019, and its backers include Bill Gates' Breakthrough Energy Ventures.
☆ Why Warren Buffett is so keen on Japan's versions of Berkshire Hathaway
  + stars: | 2023-05-05 | by ( Tim Hornyak | ) www.cnbc.com   time to read: +9 min
But Warren Buffett added a spark in April when he visited Japan to announce that Berkshire Hathaway boosted its investment in Japanese trading houses to 7.4%. Buffett said the five — Itochu Corp., Marubeni Corp., Mitsubishi Corp., Mitsui, and Sumitomo Corp. — are comparable to Berkshire itself. Samurai roots for Buffett's Japanese stocks The five trading firms that Berkshire has invested in are the biggest of Japan's so-called sogo-shosha, or general trading companies. Today, Japan's trading companies derive most of their revenue from non-trade activities. Shosha: The Big Five Mitsubishi The largest of Japan's trading companies is Mitsubishi Corp. , set up in 1954.
☆ With Tesla battery packs and largest hydrogen tank in Japan, Panasonic tests a factory of the future
  + stars: | 2022-12-11 | by ( Tim Hornyak | ) www.cnbc.com   time to read: +2 min
As a bullet train speeds by in the background, a liquid hydrogen tank towers over solar panels and hydrogen fuel cells at Panasonic's Kusatsu plant in Japan. Combined with a Tesla Megapack storage battery, the hydrogen and solar can deliver enough electricity to power the site's Ene-Farm fuel cell factory. As bullet trains whiz by at 285 kilometers per hour, Panasonic's Norihiko Kawamura looks over Japan's tallest hydrogen storage tank. The 14-meter structure looms over the Tokaido Shinkansen Line tracks outside the ancient capital of Kyoto, as well as a large array of solar panels, hydrogen fuel cells and Tesla Megapack storage batteries. The power sources can generate enough juice to run part of the manufacturing site using renewable energy only.
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