TOKYO -- The fate of Japan's grand plan to tap into its plentiful wind power resources hangs on the 800-kilometer cable it needs to build to connect the populous center of the country to turbines off its northwest coast. It also depends on a 20-centimeter fish.
Turbines silhouetted in the sunset at Noshiro Port, Akita, Japan, will form part of the country's biggest offshore wind farm as Japan seeks to allay fears of impacts on fishing communities while ramping up its wind power capacity fivefold by 2030. (Photo by Masayuki Kozono)
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