Fukushima Forward is the brainchild of Takeshi Ishihara, a professor in the University of Tokyo’s civil engineering department. For most of the 1990s, he studied wind-resistant building design as a researcher at construction firm Shimizu. He made the jump to academia in 2000 and started measuring wind speeds off eastern Japan, sharing the data with the government.
About a decade ago, Beijing-born Ishihara started considering the possibility of building floating wind farms in Japan.
