Japan Airlines is pushing hard to decarbonize its air transport with two back to back collaboration announcements. One with Universal Hydrogen and one with ZeroAvia, both aiming to accelerate the adoption of hydrogen within the Japanese aviation space by retrofitting short-haul regional aircraft with hydrogen-electric powertrains. Let’s explore why it makes sense for Japan to be one of the first movers in the space and who might follow. This red line stretching across Japan is approximately 2,000 km and there were around 88 million tickets sold for domestic flights in Japan. Almost half of which either took off or landed in Tokyo, which is located pretty nicely in the middle of the country – relative to the red line. This…