''Land of the Rising Sun''. The characters that make up the name ''Japan'' spell out ''Sun-Origin''.
After the Fukushima crisis, there has been rising concerns in Japan concerning the expansion of the nations nuclear power. Japanese Prime Minister Naoto Kan declared an end to the Japanese nuclear power expansion plan.
Kan told reporters : The current basic energy policy envisages that over 50% of total electricity supply will come from nuclear power while 20% will come from renewable power in 2030...But that basic plan needs to be reviewed now from scratch after this big incident.
Japanese officials were set to unveil a new "Sunrise Plan" at the G8 Meeting. The plan will require all new buildings to be covered by solar panels by 2030, and result in 10 million solar powered homes.
