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Strategies for reducing global warming have led to high expectations for the incredible potential of solar photovoltaics (PV) as a renewable energy technology, and research and development are proceeding in many countries. Japan is one of those countries, and was the world leader in the PV market through and after the late 1990s.
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Asano, K. (2014). Early Promoter of Solar Photovoltaics: Forty Years of Development of Policy and Technology in Japan. In: Moe, E., Midford, P. (eds) The Political Economy of Renewable Energy and Energy Security. Energy, Climate and the Environment. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137338877_8
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