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Professor Tsumoru Shintake's sketch of his envisioned wave power system (Courtesy of Tsumoru Shintake)

JUNICHI TAKI, Nikkei senior staff writer

TOKYO -- Japan and other maritime countries may not have to look far for their affordable, stable alternative energy source of the future. It might be lapping at their shores.

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