Vol. 50 No. 2 (2013)   Shipbuilding and Ocean Development
Technical Prospects

Development of Offshore Wind Turbine Floater to Blend into Japanese Waters

MAKOTO OHTA
MASAO KOMATSU
HIROTO ITO
HITOSHI KUMAMOTO

It is widely known that Japan is ranked sixth in the world in terms of coastline length and of territorial sea and exclusive economic zone areas, while it is ranked 60th in land size. Offshore wind turbines are discussed and developed from various aspect
(This article is written in Japanese and only the abstract is written in English.)