Nov 30, 2016
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In Japan, five to eight million tons of food products are disposed of annually ...
Nov 24, 2016
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Duff Figgy Some Rights Reserved. Over five-and-a-half years have passed since ...
Nov 15, 2016
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Having used to be limited to individual investors, Japan's sustainable investm...
Oct 31, 2016
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Japan is a convenient society. People can go shopping without speaking at all. ...
Oct 18, 2016
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Child poverty is attracting growing concern in Japan. It is a problem requirin...
Oct 10, 2016
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In June 2016, a Japanese nonprofit group called "work with Pride" (wwP) announ...
Sep 30, 2016
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Building a society with a healthy lifestyle, where even the elderly can lead ac...
Sep 19, 2016
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Japan has a program in which Japanese citizens living anywhere can donate mone...
Sep 11, 2016
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Overcoming a Shrinking Local Economy The ability to make local economies more ...
Aug 31, 2016
Newsletter
We reported in the June 2016 JFS Newsletter that the 2020 Tokyo Olympic and Pa...
Aug 14, 2016
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Cars are a necessity of life for people who live outside of major cities. At t...
Jul 29, 2016
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It has been just over a year since I started the Edahiro Laboratory, working w...
Jul 19, 2016
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Tokyo 2020 Olympics, Paralympics Tokyo will be hosting the 2020 Olympic and Pa...
Jul 07, 2016
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An estimated 6.42 million tons of food loss and waste is generated annually in...
Jun 30, 2016
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Starting in August 2015, JFS has been organizing meetup events to discuss sust...
Jun 23, 2016
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After working for a municipality and a consumers' co-op, Toru Suzuki started a...
Jun 13, 2016
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The Green Purchasing Network (GPN), an organization comprising entities that p...
May 31, 2016
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Japanese and Fisheries The depletion of fishery resources and collapse of fish...
May 20, 2016
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Kawakami in the Minamisaku district of Nagano Prefecture in central Japan is a...
May 11, 2016
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Incidents of heavy rains and floods are increasing around the world as the imp...
Apr 28, 2016
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Even before the disaster, Japan's Tohoku (northeastern) region had many areas w...
Apr 21, 2016
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There are many initiatives providing food to people in need in both developing...
Apr 14, 2016
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Five years have passed since the Great East Japan Earthquake. What thoughts do...
Mar 31, 2016
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On March 11, 2011, the Great East Japan Earthquake caused massive devastation ...
Mar 16, 2016
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Mariko Kawaguchi, chief researcher at Daiwa Institute of Research, Ltd., analy...
Feb 29, 2016
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Itoshiro is a village located in Gujo City, Gifu Prefecture, right next to Fuk...
Feb 18, 2016
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We need a certain amount of money to make our daily living. In particular, sta...
Feb 09, 2016
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Saburo Kato is a Japanese environmental activist and president of the Japan As...
Jan 29, 2016
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In the last JFS Newsletter, the December 2015 issue, we introduced the 1% Rura...
Jan 19, 2016
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Japan is experiencing depopulation and an aging society, problems that are tho...
Jan 11, 2016
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Japan for Sustainability (JFS) has been working on its Local Well-Being Projec...
Dec 28, 2015
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Japan has entered a period of rapid population decline. If the trend continues...
Dec 21, 2015
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The Tohoku Taberu Tsushin (Eating Tohoku Magazine) initiative, which we introdu...
Dec 12, 2015
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Tetsufumi Okushi is known as an brilliant entrepreneur in Japan who grew a sin...
Nov 28, 2015
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The Tokushima Regional Energy General Incorporated Association (TREGIA) is a b...
Nov 20, 2015
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Nagakute, in Aichi Prefecture, has been actively promoting efforts proposed by ...
Nov 12, 2015
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The term "nonprofit organization" (NPO) has become increasingly popular in Japa...
Oct 30, 2015
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The city of Yokohama in Kanagawa Prefecture is an ordinance-designated city wi...
Oct 13, 2015
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In the last newsletter, we introduced the Hirono Wai-Wai Project as an initiat...
Sep 30, 2015
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On August 11, 2015, reactor 1 was restarted at Kyushu Electric Power Company's...
Sep 22, 2015
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Many villages and towns in Japan have disappeared as a result of consolidation ...
Sep 11, 2015
Newsletter
The Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station, which suffered an accident follow...
Aug 31, 2015
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In this issue of the JFS Newsletter, we feature an interview with Dai Yoshida, ...
Aug 19, 2015
Newsletter
At a symposium on local governance and the water supply in November 2014, I he...
Aug 11, 2015
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The interval of Japan's history between 1603 and 1867 is called the Edo Period...
Jul 31, 2015
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The previous issue of the JFS Newsletter introduced problems resulting from a ...
Jul 20, 2015
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The Institute for Studies in Happiness, Economy and Society (ISHES), with JFS ...
Jul 13, 2015
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A report released in May 2014, the so-called "Masuda Report," made a big impac...
Jun 30, 2015
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Ever since the global decrease in tropical forests became a matter of concern ...
Jun 17, 2015
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In last month's issue of the JFS Newsletter, we introduced the first half of a...