Japan gives emphasis on eco-system, tourism

Tokyo, Oct. 28 : LED lighting illuminates the city at night. LED lights are now available in all colors and spread all across the city. Japan’s Tokushima prefecture is the hub of manufacturing LED lights.The region owns the facility to provide a consultation of a new LED product development and evaluation of the product performance free-of-charge.”Compared to incandescent bulbs, The LED bulb can reduce the power consumption about 1/6 with the equal amount of light emission. We believe that LED can contribute to more energy saving in the future, since the luminous efficiency is rapidly improving,” said Toshiaki Kagawa of Tokushima Prefectural Industrial Technology Center.LED traffic signal is one of the products which were jointly developed by Tokushima Prefecture and local businesses by taking advantage of energy saving feature of LED.The LED traffic signals can be replaced easily to the traditional incandescent traffic lights. Only requirement is to simply replace the bulb.