■COMMENTARY: Disaster-hit Tohoku communities search for a renewable way：
FUKUSHIMA--An international quintet of students took the top prize of a contest on renewables in a prefkd7 バッシュ cture where energy has long been a special “local product.”
The “Fukushima Prefecture competition of ideas for spreading renewable energy sources” invited graduate and undergraduate university students to contribute proposals on how the prefectural government can realize its “vision” of having renewable energy sources cover all energy demand there by around 2040.