Denso unveils system using electric vehicles as part of power grid

Denso unveils system using electric vehicles as part of power grid

NAGOYA, June 4 Kyodo - A Denso Corp. official explains the use of an electric vehicle as a storage battery for connection to the power grid during a press preview at its plant in Anjo, Aichi Prefecture, central Japan, on May 28, 2015. Under the Pico Grid System for Light Electric Vehicles, they can also serve as power sources in blackouts during disasters and other contingencies, such as for lighting, computers and mobile phones.

Overnight Osaka-Sapporo train

Overnight Osaka-Sapporo train

OSAKA, Japan - Photo shows a Twilight Express train at JR Osaka Station in western Japan on May 28, 2014. West Japan Railway Co. said the same day that the train, its luxurious overnight express train linking Osaka with Sapporo, known for the longest travel distance in Japan, will finish service in the spring of 2015 due to the aging of the rolling stock produced about 40 years ago. It began operations in July 1989.

U.N. starts nuclear non-proliferation meeting

U.N. starts nuclear non-proliferation meeting

NEW YORK, United States - Nobuo Kishi, Japanese senior vice foreign minister, delivers a speech at the third session of the preparatory committee for the 2015 Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty review conference at the U.N. headquarters in New York on April 28, 2014, the opening day of the meeting to be held through May 9.

U.N. starts nuclear non-proliferation meeting

U.N. starts nuclear non-proliferation meeting

NEW YORK, United States - Hiroshima Mayor Kazumi Matsui (2nd row, R) and Nagasaki Mayor Tomihisa Taue (2nd row, L) sit in at the third session of the preparatory committee for the 2015 Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty review conference at the U.N. headquarters in New York on April 28, 2014, the opening day of the meeting to be held through May 9.

U.N. starts nuclear non-proliferation meeting

U.N. starts nuclear non-proliferation meeting

NEW YORK, United States - Nobuo Kishi (C), Japanese senior vice foreign minister, delivers a speech at the third session of the preparatory committee for the 2015 Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty review conference at the U.N. headquarters in New York on April 28, 2014, the opening day of the meeting to be held through May 9.

U.N. starts nuclear non-proliferation meeting

U.N. starts nuclear non-proliferation meeting

NEW YORK, United States - Angela Kane (L), the United Nations' High Representative for Disarmament Affairs, delivers a speech at the third session of the preparatory committee for the 2015 Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty review conference at the U.N. headquarters in New York on April 28, 2014, the opening day of the meeting to be held through May 9.