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TO GO WITH STORY Japan-technology-energy-economy-environment,FOCUS by by Hiroshi Hiyama Kazuo Inamori (L), Founder of Kyocera Corp., Daisaku Kadokawa (C), Mayor of Kyoto, and head of SB Energy Corp. Masayoshi Son (R) shake hands during the large-scale solar power plant startup ceremony in Kyoto on July 1, 2012. On March this year, the Kyocera Group and SoftBank Group subsidiary in charge of renewable energy business, SB Energy Corp. announced that the two companies have been selected by Kyoto City to bild and operate a 4.2-megawatt solar power plant. As Japan weans itself off nuclear power in the wake of last year's natural disasters and atomic crisis, Tokyo has quietly approved a new scheme that it hopes will spark a clean-energy revolution. AFP PHOTO / KAZUHIRO NOGI (Photo credit should read KAZUHIRO NOGI/AFP/GettyImages)