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 # Sustainable Cities: Challenges and Opportunities in Japan

 

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 Oct 23, 2014 2:45 PM ET

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Thought leaders from across Japan’s energy sector gathered in Tokyo last week to discuss the role energy will play in adapting the country’s cities to a challenging environment of aging and declining population and increasing dependence on foreign sources for food and fuel. Tokyo-Yokohama, the world’s largest urban concentration, is already in many ways in the vanguard of the future of urban centers. What happens in this mega city is being watched closely across the planet for ideas to emulate or avoid.

**[Continue reading on The Great Energy Challenge Energy Blog.](http://energyblog.nationalgeographic.com/2014/10/21/sustainable-cities-challenges-and-opportunities-in-japan/)**



 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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