Japanese facility aimed at creating a sun on Earth | The Japan Times Online

Outside a small town in Gifu Prefecture is a little-known scientific research establishment engaged in a project to "create a sun on the Earth." If successful, this venture will profoundly affect the lives of most people in the world.
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"Our era is the longest known period between ice ages," Komori says. The occurrence of another ice age, despite the current fear of global warming, is an overwhelming likelihood. In that distant future, when the world is again covered in ice, fusion plants, creating 'suns' all over the globe, would allow life on Earth to flourish for another 5 billion years, until the sun in the sky finally burns out."