Toyota Tsusho
The Japanese government planned to add up to 100 public hydrogen stations under a budget of 460 million dollars covering 50% of the installation costs with the last ones hoped to be operational in 2015. JX Energy expected to install 40 stations by 2015. Toho Gas and Iwatani Corp expected to install an additional 20 stations. Toyota Tsusho and Air Liquide made a JV to build 2 hydrogen stations hoped to be ready by 2015. A "task force" led by Yuriko Koike, Japan's former environment minister, and supported by the country's Liberal Democratic Party was set up to guide the process.