Getting Smart in the Suburbs of Tokyo

Miki Tanikawa
New York Times
11.27.2011

TOKYO — Introducing plans for Japan’s first smart city to be built “from scratch” in May could not have been better timed for Panasonic, the driving force behind the project to build an eco-savvy town in a Tokyo suburb by 2013.

The Tokyo area had just gone through multiple blackouts following the shutdown of nuclear power plants in Fukushima after the disastrous earthquake and tsunami in March. And calls from the general public for greater reliance on non-nuclear or renewable energy had never been louder.

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