{"id":45746,"date":"2026-09-17T12:10:17","date_gmt":"2026-09-17T10:10:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/?post_type=news&#038;p=45746"},"modified":"2026-09-17T12:10:17","modified_gmt":"2026-09-17T10:10:17","slug":"japan-sa-target-joint-clean-energy-transition-transport-projects","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/news\/japan-sa-target-joint-clean-energy-transition-transport-projects\/","title":{"rendered":"Japan, SA target joint clean energy transition, transport projects"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Japanese Ambassador to South Africa (SA) Fumio Shimizu has announced that Tokyo is seeking to deepen economic co-operation with Pretoria in the areas of just energy transition, decarbonisation, and high-quality infrastructure development.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Speaking in Pretoria on Wednesday evening during a bilateral engagement with Basic Education Minister Siviwe Gwarube aimed at strengthening educational ties, Shimizu highlighted shared structural challenges in transitioning toward cleaner energy sources. He confirmed that Japan is prepared to deploy specialized technology, technical know-how, and commercial expertise through Japanese firms to support SA energy, transport, and industrial projects.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The diplomatic engagement comes as both nations navigate parallel decarbonisation pathways, with Japan positioning its corporate sector to partner on large-scale infrastructure and green energy initiatives across Southern Africa.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;In the business area, we are doing various operations. For example, SA is facing what we call the challenge of just energy transition, and Japan is facing the same issue,&#8221; Shimizu noted. &#8220;We would like to co-operate with SA for the energy transition as well as decarbonisation. Japan is proud of our high-quality infrastructure. With Japanese techniques and know-how, we believe that we could work together with SA for the improvement of infrastructure, such as in the area of energy, transportation, and others, through Japanese companies.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;ChannelAfrica&#8211;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":45749,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"news-type":[44],"class_list":["post-45746","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news-type-finance","entry"],"acf":{"short_description":"Japan pledges deeper economic co-operation with SA on energy transition","published_date":"2026-09-17 12:10:05","news_description":"Japan pledges deeper economic co-operation with SA on energy transition","form_embed":"","author":"","image_caption":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/45746","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/45746\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45750,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/45746\/revisions\/45750"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/45749"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45746"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-type?post=45746"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}