Twenty-five kilometres out to sea from the site of Japan’s 2011 Fukishima-Daiichi nuclear disaster, plans are gathering pace to build a two-unit floating wind power project. Though at 30MW small in size at a time when international energy developers are gearing up to build gigawatt-scale arrays in the world’s major maritime provinces, the pilot could be disproportionately influential to both the emerging sector as well as Japan’s wider industrial future.