The project, which will be Tokyo-based Tokyu Land’s first foray into the power-generation business, will be built on a golf course on the island of Shikoku in Mitoyo, Kagawa prefecture.

The company, a unit of real estate giant Tokyu Fudosan Holdings, did not reveal a PV module supplier for the project, which is scheduled for completion by August 2015.

A wide range of new entrants have stormed into Japan’s booming PV sector since the country introduced a feed-in tariff (FIT) for clean-energy projects in July 2012.

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