Mitsubishi has been making utility-scale wind turbines for two decades, but hardly been able to install in Japan, where the emphasis was on the sweet silent power of the splitting atom. There are other OEMs as well.

The resource on land is strong enough, but will involve wholesale changes to the way projects are sited and permitted. But Japan is already making a huge effort to go offshore, though stupidly.

They want to overtake Norway as the leader in floating wind, especially since they don't have any shallow waters like the North Sea. This will eventually become a very strong global technology, but one that will take some time to evolve to maturity, if not longer.

So they should accent onshore, but... (yuk, technology in nature).

1 Gigawatt floating offshore is the near term goal. Good for some of the firms working on the technology, but why not develop an industry where the risks are small and known? Rioght.

"Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage." - Anaïs Nin