Measuring energy poverty in Japan, 2004–2013

By Shinichiro Okushima. 2016

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This paper first examines energy (or fuel) poverty in Japan from 2004 to 2013, especially around the time of the 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake (GEJE). To analyze the issue, the paper employs various poverty and vulnerability measures with the assistance of our unique dataset. The results indicate the aggravation of energy poverty among lower-income and vulnerable households during the past decade, resulting from both the escalation of energy prices and lowering of income. The analysis also employs a new decomposition technique and identifies the explanatory factors associated with the increase in energy poverty. These results suggest there were major changes in the forces driving the increase in energy poverty before and after the GEJE. After 2011, income alleviates energy poverty in Japan, with energy prices becoming the main driving factor.

Subfields: Energy Engineering and Power Technology, Pollution, Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment

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In Energy Engineering and Power Technology

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3. Katharina Drescher
4. Oihana Aristondo

In Pollution

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Citations in the corpus

• Determinants, persistence, and dynamics of energy poverty: An empirical assessment using German household survey data (2021, background): “Although the literature has mostly focused on Europe, there are also country-level studies for other developed non-European countries like Japan (Okushima, 2016, 2017) or the US (Teller-Elsberg et al., 2016; Bednar & Reames, 2020).”
• Counting energy poverty in Spain between 2004 and 2015 (2018, methodology): “The 10% measure has been widely used in energy poverty studies such as Boardman (2013), Heindl and Schüssler (2015), Phimister et al. (2015), Okushima (2016) and Pachauri et al. (2004).”