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Kishida wraps up energy-focused Gulf tour with visit to Qatar

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Japan arrived there just too late, last month Qatar already make a huge deal with China. While Japan debating mynumber and Fukushima water.

https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/qatar-set-strike-second-big-lng-supply-deal-with-china-ft-2023-06-20/

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During his tour, Kishida and Gulf leaders discussed "how to deal with energy challenges" in the face of unstable supply due to Russia's Ukraine invasion, the prime minister told a Doha press conference.

Qatar doesn’t have any ‘energy challenges’

They have the Koreans building solar plants and enough fossil fuels for their own needs.

> "Japan needs to secure more LNG from Qatar," he told AFP, arguing that a deal would provide Tokyo with "stable and reliable LNG supply".

There’s the kicker!

It is Japan that needs fuel from Qatar NOT vice versa.

China and Korea are already way out in front of Japan supplying and constructing solar energy plants in Qatar.

Japan has lost its edge and it shows.,,..

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"By combining respective strengths of Gulf states and Japan, oil producers in the Middle East will be transformed to global green energy hubs, exporting decarbonized energy and critical minerals," Kishida told reporters.

What delirious, delusional market speak and it serves to make some people doubt the authenticity of actual efforts to save the environment, control climate change and create a sustainable economy.

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China and Korea are already way out in front of Japan supplying and constructing solar energy plants in Qatar.

They even seize to get opportunity building solar energy for the World Cup in Qatar last year , where was Japan at that time?

https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20221018-qatar-inaugurates-solar-plant-to-help-power-world-cup

https://news.cgtn.com/news/2022-10-19/Qatar-inaugurates-first-solar-plant-built-by-Chinese-firms--1egsbfcsLiE/index.html

https://en.prnasia.com/releases/apac/ja-solar-and-samsung-c-t-signs-the-qatar-875mw-pv-power-plant-module-supply-agreement-390971.shtml

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Facts are inconvenient but the truth is out there.

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Talk about cap in hand.

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China and Korea are already way out in front of Japan supplying and constructing solar energy plants in Qatar.

 

Really? Did you mean this one?

 

Japan to provide $330M for Qatar mega solar power plant

Japanese banks will provide huge loan for one of the world’s largest solar plants in Qatar, says a bank statement

https://www.aa.com.tr/en/middle-east/japan-to-provide-330m-for-qatar-mega-solar-power-plant/1940284

 

Or this one?

 

Marubeni to Invest in 800-Megawatt Qatar Solar Plant

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-01-19/total-marubeni-to-sign-qatar-solar-power-plant-deals-poster#xj4y7vzkg

 

Facts are inconvenient but the truth is out there.

You are so correct. The truth is indeed out there.

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Japan arrived there just too late, last month Qatar already make a huge deal with China

So what? Qatar is cutting a lot of deals with a lot of countries. In fact, it was Japan that help develop the LNG market with Qatar.

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Japan has lost its edge and it shows.,,..

The 800MW-capacity Al Kharsaah power plant is the first large-scale solar plant to be developed in Qatar. The developers of the plant are Siraj Energy and a consortium of Japan's Marubeni Corporation and France's Total Solar International.

https://www.google.com/search?q=solar+plant+qatar+first+japan&ei=Fyi3ZLL6LMyA2roPjpWxkAI&oq=solar+plant+qatar+first&gs_lp=Egxnd3Mtd2l6LXNlcnAiF3NvbGFyIHBsY

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Facts are inconvenient but the truth is out there.

You are so correct. The truth is indeed out there.

Shilling for a megacorp can be expensive too but profitable.

Greenwashing does not come cheap for the LDP and it's Japan Inc. partners like Marubeni.

We are all paying for it by fake SDG corporate welfare that supports the LDP and ME feudal oligarchs.

https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/marubeni-corporation-agrees-plead-guilty-foreign-bribery-charges-and-pay-88-million-fine

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Why not just buy gas from our neighbor Russia? Middle East requires us to pay mountains of money, to USA for transport security, risk war with Iran and the ships have to cross the whole world.

green energy.

then there is cheap Chinese solar panels. Not allowed.

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Japan has lost its edge and it shows.,,..

Have you any idea how well-regarded and sought-after Japanese energy expertise is around the world? Countries literally entrust their entire energy "master plans" to JICA. Countries like Bangladesh, for instance:

https://www.jica.go.jp/Resource/project/english/bangladesh/016/outline/index.html

Here are some energy-related projects JICA is/has been involved with, and more are being signed all the time, like with this trip by Kishida. And that's before we even think about the countless private industry projects:

https://www.jica.go.jp/Resource/project/english/subject/energy/09_1.html

And here is a general list of areas JICA is involved with. You will see that Japanese expertise, in all sorts of areas, is very much sought-after all over the world:

https://www.jica.go.jp/Resource/project/english/subject/index.html

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