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And Okamura predicts more power may needed this winter in Japan, where many heaters are electric.
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Maruyama M, Tomita N, Iwasaki K, Ootsuki M, Matsui T, Nemoto M, Okamura N, Higuchi M, Tsutsui M, Suzuki T, Seki T, Kaneta T, Furukawa K, Arai H.
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In Japan, according to Ken Okamura, a strategist with Dresdner Kleinwort Benson, the birth rate has been so low that the working-age population will actually start to decline next year.
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Although America may seem an odd place to study energy conservation per capita energy use has increased 50 percent here in 40 years, conservation is even less natural to Japan, according to Okamura, and California, in particular, may provide a useful model.
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