This updates our September 13, 2011 Client Alert entitled “Outline of Japan’s Feed-In Tariff Law for Renewable Electric Energy,” which summarized “The Act on Special Measures Concerning the Procurement of Renewable Electric Energy by Operators of Electric Utilities” (the “Act”). The Act and the related regulations (the “Implementing Regulations”) went into effect on July 1, 2012.

This Client Alert summarizes key features of the Act and the Implementing Regulations as modified for fiscal year 2013, organized into the following sections...