Japan News + Sustainability - Jan 2021 Episode | Hikosaemon + JJWalsh
01:30 Baye McNeil's Martin Luther King Jr article on the Japan Times
03:45 Happy 2021- Looking forward and looking back
04:20 2020 Warmest year on record despite slow-down of coronavirus
08:10 Hiroshima's 800,000 Covid19 testing plan
09:10 Covid19 Testing Improvements
11:00 False sense of security with Covid19 over time
11:37 Long-term Climate Change problems hard to stay focused
12:40 Stick (penalties) vs Carrot (incentives) to follow COvid19 guidelines
14:20 Penalties for non-compliance under debate
15:40 Hospitals turning patients away - over capacity due to Covid19
19:00 Is there low confidence in vaccines in Japan?
21:00 36% (NHK) don't want to take the COVID19 vaccine
23:00 Normal population likely to get vaccine in 2022
26:00 Protecting local pharmaceutical companies
27:30 Tokyo Olympic problems - lacking public support
29:40 Sustainability and Olympic Games Potential in a typical year
30:20 Eco-friendly targets during the Olympics
33:30 2019 Lower Greenhouse Emissions than expected
36:30 NTT green initiatives for renewable energy and battery storage
39:30 Green Hydrogen Clean Tech Potential
44:30 Label mistake - don't toss the beer Sapporo!
47:00 Honesty food stalls with local farm produce
49:00 Fruit tree harvesting difficulty with aging population
50:40 Ume production in Wakayama*
53:00 Toyota compliance EPA problems in US
56:40 2030 Japan Targets to stop sales of fossil fuel powered automobiles
59:00 Buyers market for 2nd hand cars in Japan
1:00:00 EV electric car transitions happening with Japanese tech companies
