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November 30, 2016
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Food Bank Kansai --- Providing Surplus Food to Those in Need
In Japan, five to eight million tons of food products are disposed of annually ...
November 24, 2016
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Fukushima Evacuees Still Unable to Go Home Over 5 Years after Earthquake, Nuclear Accident
Duff Figgy Some Rights Reserved. Over five-and-a-half years have passed since ...
November 15, 2016
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Substantial Change toward Expansion: The Sustainable Investment Market in Japan
Having used to be limited to individual investors, Japan's sustainable investm...
October 31, 2016
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Community Currency 'Bunji' Changing the Way Money is Used
Japan is a convenient society. People can go shopping without speaking at all. ...
October 18, 2016
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Chiiki Mirai Juku : Local Communities Support Government's Tutoring Program to Fight Child Poverty in Japan
Child poverty is attracting growing concern in Japan. It is a problem requirin...
October 10, 2016
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'work with Pride' (wwP) Launches Index to Promote LGBT-inclusive Workplaces in Japan
In June 2016, a Japanese nonprofit group called "work with Pride" (wwP) announ...
September 30, 2016
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What are the Secrets to a Long, Healthy Life? From Japan's Longest-Lived Prefecture, Nagano
Building a society with a healthy lifestyle, where even the elderly can lead ac...
September 19, 2016
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Innovative 'Hometown Tax' Donation Program Supports Municipalities
Japan has a program in which Japanese citizens living anywhere can donate mone...
September 11, 2016
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Community Building through Local Money Circulation Analysis -- The Case of Minamata, Japan
Overcoming a Shrinking Local Economy The ability to make local economies more ...
August 31, 2016
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Making Olympic Gold Medals from 'Urban Mine' Sources
We reported in the June 2016 JFS Newsletter that the 2020 Tokyo Olympic and Pa...
August 14, 2016
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Auto Sales Industry Cooperates to Tackle Social Responsibility: Examples from Yamagata, Japan
Cars are a necessity of life for people who live outside of major cities. At t...
July 29, 2016
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Marginal Community, Urban Citizens, College Students Collaborate for Kodomo-Shokudo Project
It has been just over a year since I started the Edahiro Laboratory, working w...
July 19, 2016
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Aiming for Sustainable Tokyo Olympic, Paralympic Games
Tokyo 2020 Olympics, Paralympics Tokyo will be hosting the 2020 Olympic and Pa...
July 7, 2016
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Initiative by Kuradashi.jp Cuts Food Waste in Japan and Saves Money
An estimated 6.42 million tons of food loss and waste is generated annually in...
June 30, 2016
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Tohoku and the World: 5 Years Since The Great East Japan Earthquake and Tsunami
Starting in August 2015, JFS has been organizing meetup events to discuss sust...
June 23, 2016
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The Story of Japan's First Citizen-Funded Wind Power Plant: The Path to Success
After working for a municipality and a consumers' co-op, Toru Suzuki started a...
June 13, 2016
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Toward a Sustainable Society and Economy -- Green Purchasing Network Celebrating 20th Anniversary
The Green Purchasing Network (GPN), an organization comprising entities that p...
May 31, 2016
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Sustainable Fishery Catches Only 30% of Fish Entering Net -- Etchu-type Set Net Fishing in Himi
Japanese and Fisheries The depletion of fishery resources and collapse of fish...
May 20, 2016
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Once Desolate, Now Attracting Attention as a Successful Farming Village: Kawakami, Nagano Prefecture
Kawakami in the Minamisaku district of Nagano Prefecture in central Japan is a...
May 11, 2016
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Learning from the Past: Traditional Flood Control Systems in Japan's Kofu Basin
Incidents of heavy rains and floods are increasing around the world as the imp...
April 28, 2016
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'Community Car Sharing' Supports the Bond of Mutual Aid
Even before the disaster, Japan's Tohoku (northeastern) region had many areas w...
April 21, 2016
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Kodomo-Shokudo Project to Provide Children with a Warm Meal and Place to Visit
There are many initiatives providing food to people in need in both developing...
April 14, 2016
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Message from Women in Ishinomaki, Miyagi Prefecture, Hit by the Great East Japan Earthquake
Five years have passed since the Great East Japan Earthquake. What thoughts do...
March 31, 2016
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Report from Fukushima: Five Years after the Great East Japan Earthquake
On March 11, 2011, the Great East Japan Earthquake caused massive devastation ...
March 16, 2016
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Future Vision of Economic Growth and Sustainable Society
Mariko Kawaguchi, chief researcher at Daiwa Institute of Research, Ltd., analy...
February 29, 2016
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Villagers Use Hand-Made Canals and Their Own Money to Generate Micro-Hydropower
Itoshiro is a village located in Gujo City, Gifu Prefecture, right next to Fuk...
February 18, 2016
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NPO Bank 'of the People, by the People, for the People'
We need a certain amount of money to make our daily living. In particular, sta...
February 9, 2016
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Learning and Applying Lessons from the Sustainable Economy of the Edo Period
Saburo Kato is a Japanese environmental activist and president of the Japan As...
January 29, 2016
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Using the Circulation of Local Money to Recover the Economy and Population (Part 2): Research Shows the Benefits of 'Taking Back' Rural Revenues
In the last JFS Newsletter, the December 2015 issue, we introduced the 1% Rura...
January 19, 2016
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Grace Co. - Assisting Environment-Related Job Recruitment to Promote Japan's Environmental Efforts
Japan is experiencing depopulation and an aging society, problems that are tho...
January 11, 2016
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Using the Circulation of Local Money to Recover the Economy and Population (Part 1): Featuring the 1% Rural Recovery Strategy and the 'Local Multiplier 3' Effect
Japan for Sustainability (JFS) has been working on its Local Well-Being Projec...
December 28, 2015
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Aiming for Happiest Marginal Community in Japan through Renewable Energy
Japan has entered a period of rapid population decline. If the trend continues...
December 21, 2015
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Delivery of Magazines Together with Food Ingredients Increasing in Japan
The Tohoku Taberu Tsushin (Eating Tohoku Magazine) initiative, which we introdu...
December 12, 2015
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Finding Balance between the Two Extremes of Economic Growth and Happiness
Tetsufumi Okushi is known as an brilliant entrepreneur in Japan who grew a sin...
November 28, 2015
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Community Happy Solar!
The Tokushima Regional Energy General Incorporated Association (TREGIA) is a b...
November 20, 2015
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Toward a Happier City -- Nagakute Takes on Well-being Indicator Development
Nagakute, in Aichi Prefecture, has been actively promoting efforts proposed by ...
November 12, 2015
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'White Paper on Local Use of Local Money': Ideas and Activities of the Community Youth Bank Momo
The term "nonprofit organization" (NPO) has become increasingly popular in Japa...
October 30, 2015
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Greenery to Citizens! -- Urban Agriculture in Yokohama City, Kanagawa Prefecture
The city of Yokohama in Kanagawa Prefecture is an ordinance-designated city wi...
October 13, 2015
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'Present Tree' Initiative: Creating Forests by Planting Commemorative Trees Linking Urban and Rural Districts
In the last newsletter, we introduced the Hirono Wai-Wai Project as an initiat...
September 30, 2015
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Update on the Restarting of Nuclear Power Plants in Japan
On August 11, 2015, reactor 1 was restarted at Kyushu Electric Power Company's...
September 22, 2015
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Reviving a Village by Giving it a Corporate Structure -- Efforts of Abamura LLC in Tsuyama City, Okayama Prefecture
Many villages and towns in Japan have disappeared as a result of consolidation ...
September 11, 2015
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Hirono Wai-Wai Project to Accelerate Recovery of Disaster-Stricken Areas
The Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station, which suffered an accident follow...
August 31, 2015
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'Omusubi Money': Local Currency at Kids' Markets Empowers Communities in Japan
In this issue of the JFS Newsletter, we feature an interview with Dai Yoshida, ...
August 19, 2015
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Yahaba Waterworks Supporters Workshop -- Citizens Decide on the Future of the Water Supply
At a symposium on local governance and the water supply in November 2014, I he...
August 11, 2015
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Biomass Energy Powered the Edo Period
The interval of Japan's history between 1603 and 1867 is called the Edo Period...
July 31, 2015
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Japan's Depopulating Society: Population Concentration in Tokyo and the Disappearance of Local Municipalities (Part 2)
The previous issue of the JFS Newsletter introduced problems resulting from a ...
July 20, 2015
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The Pursuit of Economic Growth Requires a Balance between 'Yin' and 'Yang'
The Institute for Studies in Happiness, Economy and Society (ISHES), with JFS ...
July 13, 2015
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Japan's Depopulating Society: Population Concentration in Tokyo and the Disappearance of Local Municipalities (Part 1)
A report released in May 2014, the so-called "Masuda Report," made a big impac...
June 30, 2015
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Illegal Logging Issues - Significance and Challenges: Pertinence of Forest Management Governance in Japan & Other Countries
Ever since the global decrease in tropical forests became a matter of concern ...
June 17, 2015
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Abundance at Lake Saroma, Japan: Saroma Fishery Cooperative Practices Socialism within a Capitalist System (Part 2)
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