NGO / Citizen
March 13, 2008
Climate Change
Carbon Offset Japan Launches Online Services for Individuals
On December 13, 2007, Carbon Offset Japan (COJ), a non-profit organization, laun...
March 6, 2008
Renewable Energy
Citizen-Based Sustainable Energy Fund Launched to Stop Global Warming
Ohisama Energy Fund Co., a Japanese energy business company, started soliciting ...
March 1, 2008
Climate Change
Japanese NGOs Release Position Paper for G8 Summit 2008 in Toyako
The 2008 Japan G8 Summit NGO Forum held a symposium, titled "What Civil Societie...
February 18, 2008
Others
Workers Taking Paid Leave Reaches Record Low
The percentage of workers taking paid leave in 2007 fell to 46.6 percent, which ...
February 12, 2008
Education
Sharp Corp. Eco-Education Program with Weathercasters Expanding to More Elementary Schools
Sharp Corp. announced on September 13, 2007, that it is expanding its environmen...
February 8, 2008
Reduce / Reuse / Recycle
Environment Ministry Announces Award Winners for Handmade Bags
On October 12, 2007, Japan's Ministry of the Environment (MOE) announced that th...
January 28, 2008
Reduce / Reuse / Recycle
Over 2 Million People Say No to Plastic Bags
The Green Purchasing Network (GPN) consists of local governments and companies p...
January 24, 2008
Climate Change
JFS Wins Environment Ministry's Award
On December 17, Japan for Sustainability (JFS) was presented the 2007 Environ...
January 14, 2008
Well-Being
Number of Japanese Centenarians Now Exceeds 30,000
For the first time in Japan's history, the number of people aged 100 years and o...
January 14, 2008
Climate Change
Survey Shows Majority of Japanese Expect Forests to Prevent Global Warming
The Cabinet Office of Japan released the results of a regularly conducted public...
December 31, 2007
Well-Being
Eighteen Thousand Children Still on Waiting List for Nursery Schools
Japan's Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare released on September 7, 2007, a ...
December 30, 2007
Policy / Systems
Survey Shows Nearly 50% of Workers Wear Lighter Summer Clothes
In August 2007, the Japanese government's Cabinet Office released the results of...
December 30, 2007
Climate Change
Survey Shows 95% of Japanese See Global Warming as Imminent Problem
According to a report released on August 10, 2007, by the Keizai Koho Center (Ja...
December 19, 2007
Policy / Systems
ICLEI Japan Office Lists 52 More Cases of Global Warming Prevention
ICLEI-Local Governments for Sustainability Japan Office started carrying out ind...
December 12, 2007
Eco-business / Social Venture
Japanese Supermarket Selling Carbon-Offset Products
Carbon-offset is the act of mitigating, or offsetting, the sometimes unavoidable...
December 7, 2007
Policy / Systems
People in Favor of Environmental Tax Outnumber Dissenters
On October 8, 2007, the Cabinet Office of Japan released the results of a public...
December 4, 2007
Eco-business / Social Venture
Organic Farming Activist Chosen as One of the World's Top 100 Social Entrepreneurs
Daichi-o-Mamoru-Kai (Association to Preserve the Earth) is a Japanese nongovernm...
November 29, 2007
Reduce / Reuse / Recycle
About Half of Elementary and Junior High School Students Latent Eco Activists
Bandai Networks Co. and NetMile, Inc. jointly announced the results of an ecolog...
November 25, 2007
Eco-business / Social Venture
Rainbow Japan Launches Environment-Saving Gift
A gift item designed to allow people to make social contributions in the form of...
November 19, 2007
Food
Department Store Chain Teams-up with NGO in Organic Vegetables and Delivery Business
One of Japan's largest department store chains, Mitsukoshi, announced June 31, 2...
November 19, 2007
Reduce / Reuse / Recycle
60% of Shoppers Carry Own Shopping Bags, 12% Always Decline Free Plastic Bags
Japan's Ministry of the Environment released on May 30, 2007 the results of two ...
November 7, 2007
Eco-business / Social Venture
First Model School's 'Eco-Renovation' Complete, Another School Selected
Japan's Ministry of the Environment (MOE) reported on June 8, 2007, the completi...
October 31, 2007
Climate Change
Signature Campaign 'The Promise of Kyoto' Asks for National Measures against Global Warming
In Japan, young people in their twenties to thirties who are concerned about glo...
October 31, 2007
Climate Change
National Campaign Aims to Reduce Individual CO2 Emissions by 1 kg per Day
"Team Minus 6 %," a government-led campaign by Japan's Ministry of the Environme...
October 18, 2007
Renewable Energy
Japanese NGO to Promote Solar Cookers in Kenya
Members of several Japanese environmental non-governmental organizations (NGO...
October 9, 2007
Climate Change
Open Letter Sent to Prof. Lovelock on Global Warming and Nuclear Power
In April 2007, a group of 14 Japanese organizations involved in environmental an...
October 1, 2007
Policy / Systems
Nissan Motor, 'Environmental E-learning' Aims to Improve Employee Minds
Nissan Motor Co. announced on May 28, 2007 the development of the Nissan Environ...
October 1, 2007
Reduce / Reuse / Recycle
Simultaneous Clean-Up Operations on Mt. Fuji, Everest
On April 15, 2007, clean-up operations led by Japanese alpinist Ken Noguchi and ...
September 13, 2007
Chemicals
Environment Ministry Holds Seminar to Convey the Minamata Experience to the World
The Japanese Ministry of the Environment held a seminar on the lessons and exper...
September 12, 2007
Climate Change
Global Warming Getting Real to 90% of Japanese: Survey
MyVoice Communications, Inc., a Japanese Internet research company, released on ...
August 25, 2007
Renewable Energy
Donated Funds used to Install More PV Power Plants in Pre-schools
A photovoltaic (PV) power plant has been in operation at Myorin-en Nursery Schoo...
August 17, 2007
Renewable Energy
Green Energy Purchasing Forum Launched in Japan
The Green Energy Purchasing (GEP) Forum was launched on June 5, 2007, to promote...
August 4, 2007
Ecosystems / Biodiversity
Tokyo Greenship Action Participants Double in FY 2007
The Tokyo Metropolitan Government has been promoting the "Tokyo Greenship Action...
August 1, 2007
Climate Change
WWF Japan Proposes Domestic CO2 Emissions Trading Scheme
WWF, the world's largest conservation non-profit organization, has been expanded...
July 27, 2007
Climate Change
Japanese NGO Combating Global Warming
The Kiko (Climate) Network is a Japanese environmental non-governmental organiza...
July 21, 2007
Reduce / Reuse / Recycle
Used Cooking Oil Helps Earth Day Tokyo Become Self-sufficient in Energy
A wide variety of events exploring sustainable societies are held across Japan o...
July 21, 2007
Eco-business / Social Venture
Learn from Strategic Environmental Management Game
The Strategic Environmental Management Game was created by the Japan Environment...
July 15, 2007
Education
'Kids' Wisdom Base' Supports Worldwide Communication among Children
One division of the Japanese non-profit organization ECOPLUS, the World School N...
July 9, 2007
Ecosystems / Biodiversity
Children Play with Wood Blocks, Learn about Forests
Planted forests in Japan are at a crisis stage due to cheap imports from over...
July 9, 2007
Renewable Energy
Environmental Groups Call for Sustainable Use of Biofuels for Transportation
Three Japanese environmental organizations, FoE Japan, the Global Environmental ...
July 9, 2007
Climate Change
NGO Implementing Carbon Offset Project
Conservation International (CI) is an international non-governmental organizatio...
June 29, 2007
Civil Society / Local Issues
Japanese NPO Encouraging Local Aspirations for Sustainable Future
The Community Support Center for Sustainable Future is a non-profit organization...
June 25, 2007
Reduce / Reuse / Recycle
Children Experience Recycling Lifestyle with Traditional Windbreak Forest
An event to offer children the chance to experience a traditional recycling-o...
June 25, 2007
Education
Tokyo NPO Organizes Local Environmental Education Fair
The Sixth Community Teachers' Fair took place on February 3, 2007 with the hope ...
June 25, 2007
Reduce / Reuse / Recycle
Soka City in Saitama Certifies 32 Green Families
Thirty-two families were certified as "Green Families" at an Environment Fair he...
June 24, 2007
Reduce / Reuse / Recycle
Community-Based Environmental Group: Chubu Recycle Citizen's Organization
Chubu Recycle Citizen's Organization (CRCO) is a Japanese non-governmental organ...
June 17, 2007
Ecosystems / Biodiversity
Japanese Timber from Thinned Forests Used for Disposable Chopsticks
Japan is a land endowed with a rich natural environment, with about 70 percent o...
June 17, 2007
Ecosystems / Biodiversity
Eco-Friendly Rice Growing Program Helping Participants Interact with Nature, People
Students and former students of the "CSO Learning Scholarship Program" sponsored...
June 16, 2007
Climate Change
NGO Makes Massive Print-Run of Newspaper to Help Prevent Global Warming, on Summer Solstice 2007
The "TEAM GOGO!" project plans to publish a one-day newspaper on global warming ...
June 14, 2007
Civil Society / Local Issues
OISCA Backs Overseas Trainees with Agricultural Training Program
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