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January 3, 2014
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Allotment Gardens Sprout One after Another as Interest Grows in Urban Agriculture
Japan's food self-sufficiency rate is as low as 40 percent on a caloric bas...
January 1, 2014
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Resident-Led Efforts to Secure Local Public Transport Systems
One of the problems emerging from Japan's decreasing population and aging s...
December 24, 2013
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Kumamoto's Challenge to Maximize Citizens' Happiness -- "Aggregate Kumamoto Happiness (AKH)"
Kumamoto Prefecture, located almost exactly in the center of Kyushu Island in s...
December 17, 2013
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Renewable Energy in Japan -- Current Trends Show Promise and Opportunities
A demonstration floating offshore wind power facility started operations on Nov...
December 10, 2013
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Let's Bring about Real Change to Water Supply Infrastructure! Taking Another Look at Ecological Purification Systems
After the Great East Japan Earthquake in March 2011, we in Japan faced an eno...
November 26, 2013
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Sense-Ware and Kids' Design for Sustainable Manufacturing
Manabu Akaike of Universal Design Intelligence, Inc. has been working as a ...
November 19, 2013
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Toshiba Tec's New Reuse System Cuts Office Paper Use Up to 80%
"Towards a Sustainable Japan -- Corporations at Work" (No. 105) http://www.tos...
November 12, 2013
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Update: Recent Developments in Nuclear Energy Policy Issues in Japan
This update on nuclear energy policy issues in Japan follows our most rece...
October 22, 2013
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The 'Miracle of Kamaishi': How 3,000 Students Survived March 11
Two and a half years have passed since the disastrous sequence of, earthquak...
October 15, 2013
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Japanese Municipalities' Efforts to Conserve Groundwater
Groundwater is present almost everywhere except in deserts. Depletion of g...
October 8, 2013
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Transboundary Air Pollution from China: Possibilities for Cooperation with Japan
In the winter of 2012-2013, a serious air pollution event in China also b...
September 24, 2013
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Arakawa City's 'Gross Arakawa Happiness' (GAH) Initiative Challenges GDP-Centric Thinking, Supports a Sustainable, Happier Community
We are constantly offered opportunities in society to rethink the meaning...
September 17, 2013
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Eco-Cooking - Tokyo Gas Co.
"Towards a Sustainable Japan -- Corporations at Work" (No. 104) http://www.to...
September 10, 2013
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Rebuilding Every 20 Years Renders Sanctuaries Eternal -- the Sengu Ceremony at Jingu Shrine in Ise
Shikinen Sengu ceremony that takes place every 20 years at Jingu Shrine in...
August 20, 2013
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Food Waste and Disaster Relief from the Perspective of the Food Bank (Part Two)
Food banks receive food donations from a wide variety of sources such as impor...
August 13, 2013
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Buy Flowers Downtown and Ride the Train for Free? A Look at Toyama's Creative Approaches to Being a Vibrant City in a Time of Depopulation
Toyama City is the capital of Toyama Prefecture, located in the Hokuriku regi...
August 6, 2013
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JFS's Newest Challenge: The "Local Well-Being" Project
Background We often hear the word "sustainability" in use around the glo...
July 23, 2013
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Food Waste and Disaster Relief from the Perspective of the Food Bank (Part One)
Japan's food self-sufficiency rate based on calories is currently around 40 p...
July 16, 2013
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Update: Recent Developments in Nuclear Energy Policy Issues in Japan
In JFS Newsletter No. 126 (February 2013), we reported on the state of energy...
July 9, 2013
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Iron Is the Key -- Iron Ion Replenishment for Sustainable Oceans
Adverse Effects of the Iron Deficiency in our Oceans The Earth we live on i...
June 18, 2013
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Tokyo's Adachi Ward Promotes Community Ties to Prevent Citizen Isolation
Adachi Ward is located in the northeast of Tokyo, and is the fourth most ...
June 11, 2013
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Meeting the Challenge of Stable Green Electricity Supply with Powdered Hydrogen Compound Fuel: Earth Project Co.
"Towards a Sustainable Japan -- Corporations at Work" (No. 103) "I want to ac...
June 4, 2013
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Children of Japan's Earthquake Disaster Stage Musical to Present Gift of Compassion to the World
Some children that lived through the Great East Japan Earthquake disaster, fr...
May 21, 2013
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Integrating Eastern and Western Wisdom Could Hold the Keys to a More Sustainable World
Japan is positioned almost as a bridge between the East and West. The convict...
May 14, 2013
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Conserving Black-Necked Cranes in Bhutan
A certain village in Phobjikha Valley, Bhutan, has been covered in the Jap...
May 7, 2013
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Coworking -- A New Working Style for Connecting People
We are now living in an era when we can work anywhere, just by using our per...
April 16, 2013
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Co-Growth Marketing: Linking Companies, Society, and Individuals
In connection with the release of the "AQUA," a compact hybrid vehicle fr...
April 9, 2013
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Japanese High School Students Work on Seabed Waste Issue
Various reports on environmental protection were presented at a meeting ent...
April 2, 2013
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The 'Era of Turbulence' and Japan's Paths to the Future
Ahead of other countries in the world, Japan's population has begun to decl...
March 19, 2013
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Toward Realizing a Sustainable Society -- the Eco-Products Exhibition
http://eco-pro.com/eco2012/english/index.html "The Greener, The Smarter -...
March 12, 2013
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Tracking Sustainable Energy Zones in Japan: Status of Renewable Energy Supply in Municipalities
The percentage of renewable energy in Japan's total energy supply is onl...
March 5, 2013
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Creating Well-being Indicators of Japan, by Japan, for Japan
Movements to measure progress not only by Gross Domestic Product (GDP) but al...
March 1, 2013
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Japan's Energy Situation after the Great East Japan Earthquake
Since the Great East Japan Earthquake occurred on March 11, 2011, and the...
February 19, 2013
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Historic Local Community Pathways in Japan Help Protect Green Spaces from Developers
A key word used worldwide in the context of sustainable society is the c...
February 12, 2013
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Japanese Fishery Meets Challenge to Reduce Bycatch from World's Oceans (Part Two)
The World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF), one of the world's largest conserv...
February 5, 2013
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Resilience and the Steady-State Economy: Japan's Sustainability Lessons from the 2011 Disasters and a Declining Population
According to data on ecological footprints, human activity today is consumin...
January 22, 2013
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Candle Night Marks its Tenth Anniversary -- A 'Beginning' from an 'Ending'
With its catch phrase of "Turn off the lights. Take it slow," a citizens'...
January 15, 2013
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Japanese Fishery Meets Challenge to Reduce Bycatch from World's Oceans (Part One)
The World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF), one of the world's largest conservation...
January 8, 2013
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Science Council of Japan Releases Policy Recommendations on High-Level Radioactive Waste Disposal
Regardless of what Japan decides about its future nuclear energy policy, the ...
December 18, 2012
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Shifting to a Sharing-Oriented Society
In the JFS Newsletter issue of June 2011, entitled "Message to Today's '3-De...
December 11, 2012
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Tell the Whole Truth about the Tragic Accident to Extract Useful Lessons for a Safer Nation
In order to investigate the causes and background of the Fukushima Daiichi...
December 4, 2012
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Report on the Rapid Rise of Renewable Energy Generation Capacity in Japan
In the article "Japan's Feed-in-Tariff Scheme Kicks Off!" published in our Ju...
November 20, 2012
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"Sapporo Smile Index" - a Driving Force for Policy Implementation
Recently an increasing number of local governments in Japan have been develop...
November 13, 2012
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Update on Planning Japan's Energy Future to 2030
As we reported in our February and May JFS newsletter issues, the process is ...
November 6, 2012
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Global Youth See Reconstruction Efforts Firsthand after 2011 Japan Earthquake -- Transforming What Survivors Learned into Lessons for the World
Japan for Sustainability (JFS) organized the "Learning Journey in Tohoku" fr...
October 23, 2012
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Interview on Post-March 11 Visions -- Japan's Regeneration from the Perspective of Forests
One year and a half has passed since the Great East Japan Earthquake on M...
October 16, 2012
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Transition Towns in Japan and a Try for Local Energy Independence by Fujino Denryoku
The former Fujino Town in Sagamihara City in northwestern Kanagawa Prefectur...
October 9, 2012
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Creating Happier Communities: Over 22 Local Governments in Japan Preparing a "Happiness Index" to Measure Progress
Japan for Sustainability (JFS) has, in its newsletters and other webpages, co...
September 18, 2012
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Update on the Discussion in Japan on Energy and Environment Policy Options to 2030
As we reported in our February and May issues, the process to determine ener...
August 14, 2012
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After Rio+20 -- How to Deliver the Voices of Civil Society to Decision-makers?
The United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development, known as Rio+20, w...Related
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