martyn_williams: Japan may consider adopting daylight savings time to help reduce power consumption in summer - Kaieda via Kyodo
Hmm... idk about this idea being batted around. People get confused enough converting time zones as is... lol

But I like this idea (provided they can afford it--we've had some banking snafus over here with this kind of thing in the past):

DailyYomiuri: The govt announced it will offer no-interest loans of 100,000 yen to households hit by the March 11 disaster, with some eligible for 200,000