Japan for Sustainability (JFS) is a non-profit communication platform to disseminate environmental information from Japan to the world, with the aim of helping both move onto a sustainable path.

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In the April 2005 issue of the JFS Newsletter:

- Sustainability Indicators

- For the Survival of Humanity on Earth 100 Years from Now
-- Tokyo Challenges 2 Types of Warming Phenomena

- JFS Bio-mimicry Interview Series: No.7
Technologies Learned from Living Things: Concepts and Examples - Front Line Reports
"Technologies Learned from Cells" - Interviewee : Dr. Keiji Fujimoto

[JFS Web Site Additions of the Month]

- Outside Japan--Asia (2005/4/18)
http://www.japanfs.org/en/outside/index.html

- "Sustainability in Japan's Edo Period--300 Years Ago!" by Eisuke Ishikawa (2005/4/18)
Chapter 9 "Made to Last"
Part 4 : Making things easy to repair
Part 5 : Re-use is better than recycle
http://www.japanfs.org/en/column/ishikawa.html

- "Toward a Century of Japanese Value" by Dr. Manabu Akaike(2005/04/18)
This article is about Washi Paper-making.
http://www.japanfs.org/en/column/akaike.html
http://www.japanfs.org/en/column/a21.html

- JFS Receives "Unique Environmental Project Award" in the Environmental Frontier category of the "The Third Japan Sustainable Management Award" (2005/04/22)
http://www.eco.pref.mie.jp/english/gyousei/taisyou/index.htm

- We updated the page of Japan's Environmental Laws. We changed the categorization of the laws and expanded to include ten regulations concerning sustainability. (2005/04/19)
http://www.japanfs.org/en/japan/laws.html

- We present this month a new cartoon, "We have an emergency--all these drips are running out!" on the High Moon Gallery.(2005/4/28)
http://www.japanfs.org/en/cartoon/index.html

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