Module Production, Cumulative Capacity and Market Share Totals for end 2011. 

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... the time of Japan's implementation of the FiT, nine nations (Germany, France, Italy, USA, UK, Australia, China, Korea and Japan) dominated the international solar PV industry, together accounting for 91% of global PV module production and in excess of 87% of cumulative deployed capacity at the end of 2011 (Table 1, IEA PVPS 2012). Additionally, as Figure 1 shows, most of the RE increase driven by the FiT in Japan was due to solar PV deployment (International Renewable Energy Agency 2017); the focus of this study. ...

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... the time of Japan's implementation of the FiT, nine nations (Germany, France, Italy, USA, UK, Australia, China, Korea and Japan) dominated the international solar PV industry, together accounting for 91% of global PV module production and in excess of 87% of cumulative deployed capacity at the end of 2011 (Table 1, IEA PVPS 2012). Additionally, as Figure 1 shows, most of the RE increase driven by the FiT in Japan was due to solar PV deployment (International Renewable Energy Agency 2017); the focus of this study. ...

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... this abundance of available evidence, it is also reasonable to assume that the design of a similar policy would rely upon this evidence base in order to develop the best possible policy. To understand whether or not learning from other nations' experience was applied in the Japanese case, the issues and experience gained with regard to social burden impacts resultant from policy implementation is analyzed for 9 leading solar nations including Japan (detailed in Table 1). A discussion of blocs of nations according to their FiT policy approach and implementation timeline is detailed below. ...