Japan's Energy Saving Technology

Japan Sees a Chance to Promote Its Energy-Frugal Ways from the NY Times. I was curious what other nations were doing on energy saving research when the US stopped funding it largely due to cheap oil. The article outside of steel processing does not have a lot of content.

It would be nice to know what other energy saving technologies are in Japan that are not widely used other places?

I hope these are some of them:

• Appliances that use electricity, even when turned off is one.
  
• Another is efficiency of appliances.
  
• There are so many energy savings that can be done with building design.