Energy Transitions in Japan and China

Lim Tai Wei is Senior Lecturer at SIM University, Singapore where he teaches World History, and Adjunct Research Fellow at the National University of Singapore, East Asian Institute where he specializes in Sino-Japanese Relations. He teaches summer courses on contemporary history of Japan at Waseda University Tokyo.

• 1. Coal Energy in Japan and China.- 2. Connecting macro-regions in the 1930s to the 1960s.- 3. A survey of modern and contemporary China's coal railway development.- 4. The Historical Development of Shanxi's Coal Industry as a case study.- 5. Coal use and transportation in contemporary China.- 6. Coal Delivery in Japan.- 7. The Final Closures of Coal Mines in Japan.- 8. Historical background of the Japanese coal industry decline.- 9. Natural gas or clean coal in the post-311 scenario? A narrative analysis, historical overview and selected public policy commentary with Japan and other comparative case studies.- 10. Epilogue.