In our “Look Back in Anger” global electricity forecast for Japan, we simply took the promises made by the Japanese government, as it welcomed Biden into the White House, and predicted both a drop in coal and gas generation, and a rise in nuclear, but the most savage rise would be in renewables. We are still predicting that. This week Japan put some hard numbers on all of those trends, but like a magician, who distracts you with a clever card trick, while he hides one up his sleeve, the focus was on renewables, but the change to policy was really about hoping that the Japanese public had forgotten about Fukushima and will be more than happy to lift it…