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	POPs Monitoring and Related Activities by the Ministry of the Environment, Japan
		Due to general decline of POPs levels in the environment, the number of ND (not detected = less than detection limits) data had been increasing in recent years, and consequently it became difficult to extract temporal trends from the monitoring data.
		The primary purpose of this reorganization is to reveal present POPs levels in Japan as a basis to judge the effectiveness of the measures/countermeasures taken by the Government for POPs convention.
		Their levels in sediments also tend to be higher in coastal environment in densely populated areas.
	landbase.hq.unu.edu /Symposia/2004Sympsium/Abstracts/Yoshitoku_Yoshida.htm (700 words)

	news: Japan’s Environment Ministry to propose new 2005 diesel emission standards (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Japan’s Environment Ministry to propose new 2005 diesel emission standards
		The Japan’s Ministry of the Environment recommended stricter regulations on emissions from diesel-powered vehicles to be sold from the fall 2005.
		A plan for the new 2005 standards was first > archive news article">announced by the Central Environment Council (an advisory panel to the Ministry of the Environment) in February.
	www.dieselnet.com /news/2002/04japan.php (187 words)

	Japan: Environmental Issue (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Japan has been a strong supporter of efforts to combat global warming and played host to the conference that led to the Kyoto Protocol to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, which was finalized in December 1997.
		Japan consumed just 172.2 million Btu per person in 2001, around half of the United States' rate of 341.8 million Btu per person.This low consumption rate is primarily due to the rapid adoption of energy efficient technologies and government-mandated energy savings initiatives.
		Japan would like to be able to increase nuclear energy consumption both to improve its energy security, and to reduce its carbon emissions.
	www.eia.doe.gov /emeu/cabs/japanenv.html (2687 words)

	Twenty new Ramsar sites in Japan
		Following the messages by Ministry of the Environment and the representatives of local authorities, presentations on wetlands conservation activities were delivered by relevant ministries and leading NGOs in Japan.
		The national policy on wetlands is described in the National Biodiversity Strategy of Japan (established in 2002) to conserve the unique ecological character of wetlands through achieving consensus in society and an integrated approach for enhancement of conservation with provision of economic incentives.
		We thank, once again, the Government of Japan, the wetland conservation groups, NGOs and experts who collaborated with the Ministry of the Environment to increase number of Ramsar sites, and for their remarkable initiatives in promoting wise-use conservation across the country and the region.
	ramsar.org /wn/w.n.japan_20sites.htm (4082 words)

	CNN.com - Japan may 'drown in its garbage' - January 26, 2002
		Japan's Ministry of the Environment has released a report underlining long-standing concerns that the world's second-richest country could eventually drown in its garbage.
		If Japan continues to generate industrial waste at current rates, sites for its disposal will become full in about 3.7 years, with dumps in the greater Tokyo area reaching their capacity in just 1.2 years, according to the study.
		Japan generated about 400 million tons of industrial waste in the fiscal year that ended in March 2000.
	archives.cnn.com /2002/WORLD/asiapcf/east/01/26/japan.garbage/index.html (424 words)

	Japan's Winter Wildlife @ National Geographic Magazine
		Known in Japan as tancho (red peak), the red-crowned is the second rarest crane species, after the whooping crane, with a world population of fewer than 2,500 birds.
		Japan's reverence for nature is ancient, but its efforts to protect wildlife are relatively young and limited by a lack of space.
		The Agency for Cultural Affairs and the Ministry of the Environment, together with local governments, have launched a major effort to survey the status of the monkey populations and their range of movement, predict the problems of conflict that might occur, and address them with fencing and other solutions.
	magma.nationalgeographic.com /ngm/0301/feature5 (1321 words)

	Bloomberg.com: Japan
		The environment ministry is also asking businesses and households to turn off car engines when parking, and to buy more energy-efficient appliances and office equipment, in addition to reducing heating and cooling.
		Japan produced 1.34 billion tons of the greenhouse gasses that have been blamed for global warming in the year ended March 31, 2004, compared with its target of 1.24 billion tons, according to the environment ministry.
		Japan's power federation aims to reduce the intensity of Co2 emissions by 20 percent to 0.34 kilograms of Co2 per kilowatt- hour, within the fiscal year starting April 1, 2010, from 1990 levels.
	www.bloomberg.com /apps/news?pid=10000101&sid=aMJhLCSwW3Hg&refer=japan (1045 words)

	legalframework National Aquaculture Legislation Overview - Japan (1)
		In Japan, the marine waters are divided into a number of sea areas as administrative units for fisheries adjustment.
		Japan is a party to the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) and to the Biosafety Protocol.
		Japan is also a party to the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES).
	www.fao.org /figis/servlet/static?dom=legalframework&xml=nalo_japan.xml (1935 words)

	Green Car Congress: Japans Environment Ministry Now Calls for Carbon Tax by 2007
		The Japanese Environment Ministry has again called for the introduction of a carbon tax, this time in January 2007, in an attempt to meet its targets for reducing CO emissions as set by the Kyoto protocol.
		Strong opposition has come from the Petroleum Association of Japan (PAJ), the country’s largest oil industry group, which argues that the proposed tax would further curtail demand for oil products in the world’s third-largest oil user, as consumers are already paying tax equivalent to about 50% of the price of gasoline at the pump.
		A report earlier in October showed that Japan’s CO emissions declined 0.8% in fiscal year 2005 to 1.329 billion tonnes from the previous year.
	www.greencarcongress.com /2005/10/japans_environm.html (752 words)

	Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Kingdom of Thailand : : Main Page
		Minister Nitya Pibulsonggram and officials at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs along with Thai Ambassadors and Heads of Mission join millions of Thais in the Kingdom and throughout the globe in expressing our very best wishes to His Majesty.
		Yasuo Fukuda, the Prime Minister of Japan at the Government House in Tokyo.
		The training program is conducted by the Ministry's Devawongse Varopakarn Institute of Foreign Affairs and may include participants from various Thai agencies including the Ministries of Foreign Affairs, Commerce, Industry, Defence as well as the Tourism Authority of Thailand.
	www.mfa.go.th /web/1.php (482 words)

	Environment Report 19 May to 25 May 03
		The Ministry of the Environment of Japan proposed world's toughest motorcycle emissions regulations as part of the ministry's drive to reduce emissions causing respiratory ailments and photochemical smog.
		The Ministry of Environment of Japan develops a personalised electronic system that alerts drivers of their vehicle's fuel consumption, idling time and other driving habits to help reduce carbon dioxide emission from motor vehicles.
		During the one-month study conducted in five regions, the Ministry found a noticeable decline among drivers involved in the program in gas-wasting habits as keeping the engine running or pumping the engine while the vehicle is idle.
	www.geocities.com /priyarevi/env5/Env163.htm (1368 words)

	IEMA - Japan's Environment Ministry eyes developing renewable energy supply
		The Environment Ministry has decided to begin developing a system in fiscal 2003 to extract hydrogen from seawater to power fuel cells with the aim of creating a fully renewable energy supply, ministry officials said Sunday.
		The construction of wind-power plants has become common in Europe and Japan in recent years, but a facility where hydrogen is extracted to power fuel cells "has no practical precedent even worldwide," according to the ministry.
		The ministry has included in its fiscal 2003 budget request 100 million yen for research expenses on the project at the National Institute for Environmental Studies, the officials said.
	www.iema.net /news/envnews?aid=3776 (382 words)

	Japan to replace with eco-car by 2030
		Japan's Environment Ministry will enact legislation for require all new vehicles to be compatible with a blend of 90-percent petrol and 10-percent ethanol (E10) by 2012, the Asahi Shimbun reported Monday.
		The ministry hopes that up to 50 percent of all fuel consumed by vehicles will contain 3-percent ethanol (E3) during that period and that all vehicles in Japan to be using E10 fuel by 2030.
		Under the Kyoto Protocol, Japan promised to cut carbon dioxide emissions by 6 percent from the 1990 level by 2012.
	www.softcom.net /webnews/wed/br/Ujapan-bioethanol.RCpv_GuC.html (149 words)

	Asia Times: Japan unmoved by criticism of whale program
		TOKYO - Masayuki Komatsu, Japan's commissioner to the International Wildlife Coalition (IWC) said on Tuesday that "Emotionally based criticism and political interference related to Japan's whale research program may serve to satisfy certain extremist environmental groups but such actions against a perfectly legal and scientifically sound program are inappropriate.
		Komatsu made these comments in response to criticism of Japan's whale research program from the US Department of State and from Australia's Ministry of Environment.
		Japan's whale research vessels left port last week to begin the second year of a two-year research feasibility study in the northwestern Pacific.
	atimes.com /japan-econ/CD16Dh03.html (451 words)

	MOFA: Invest Japan !
		(1) The Government of Japan announced to double the FDI inward stock of Japan (JPY 6,600 billion as at 2001) within five years in January 2003.
		Under the slogan "INVEST JAPAN," Japan is now working to establish a better and more effective investment environment for foreign investors.
		The Expert Committee established under the Japan Investment Council (JIC) has been working with the active cooperation of the ministries and agencies concerned in order to periodically review the status of the program.
	www.mofa.go.jp /policy/economy/japan/invest (537 words)

	Japan's environment ministry turns off the heat (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Japan's environment ministry has said it will refrain from using heating in its buildings this winter in a bid to reduce carbon dioxide emissions, according to broadcaster NHK.
		With Japan increasing its amount of greenhouse gases in the last fiscal year, up 0.6% year on year, MoE launched its so-called 'Warm Biz' campaign in October to reduce heating use over the winter.
		It is also encouraging Japan's traditionally conservative bosses to adorn turtleneck shirts instead of the usual shirt-and-tie uniforms.
	www.rics.org /Management/Facilitiesmanagement/japan_heating291106.html (184 words)

	Japan Going On Foreign Fish Hunt - CBS News
		Fearful indigenous Japanese fish are being wiped out by foreign fish like bluegill and fl bass, the Environment Ministry said Thursday it will begin draining sections of the moat to kill off the North American natives.
		Bluegills have been found in Japan since 1960, when some were presented to Emperor Akihito, then the crown prince, by Richard J. Daley, then the mayor of Chicago.
		Today, the Environment Ministry says the two species inhabit at least eight of the 13 segments of the stone-lined imperial moat around Akihito's palace in Tokyo.
	www.cbsnews.com /stories/2003/02/13/world/main540509.shtml (666 words)

	To save energy, Japan urges salarymen to shed their suits
		Hiroshi Okuda, chairman of Toyota Motor, Japan's largest company, is about to make his runway debut, promenading before the cameras for a new national campaign to cajole Japanese men to help the nation save energy by shedding their jackets and ties in summer.
		The dark business suit, the beloved uniform for generations of salarymen, is supposed to stay at home this summer as all public and private offices - in a bid to save energy and reduce output of global warming gases - are to set their air-conditioners at a sweltering 28 degrees Celsius, or 82.4 degrees Fahrenheit.
		But Japan's salarymen are not expected to surrender their dark suits without a fight.
	www.iht.com /articles/2005/05/20/business/japan.php (902 words)

	Environment Agency of Japan – Web Listings
		Japan's Environment Agency - plans to limit sulfur in diesel fuel...
		At the Environment Agency of Japan, in advance of the reorganization of central government departments that will occur next January, steady progress is...
		The Ministry of the Environment (???, Kankyo-sho?) of Japan was formed in 2001 from the sub-cabinet level Environmental Agency established in 1971.
	www.business.com /directory/government_and_trade/by_country/japan/cabinet/prime_ministers_office/environment_agency/weblistings.asp (483 words)

	Symposium on Climate Policy 2005 and Beyond: Japanese-German Impulses
		This conference, commissioned by the German Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety (BMU) was co-organised by the Wuppertal Insititute for Climate, Environment and Energy (WI) and the Institute for Global Environmental Strategies (IGES).
		Federal Ministry for the Environment (Germany), Ministry of Innovation, Science, Research and Technology of the State North Rhine-Westphalia (Germany), Ministry of the Environment (Japan)
		Partner organiastions: Federal Ministry for the Environment (Germany), Ministry of Innovation, Science, Research and Technology of the State North Rhine-Westphalia (Germany), Ministry of the Environment (Japan)
	www.iges.or.jp /en/news/event/event9/event9.html (454 words)

	Kyoto News \| Turn out the lights: Japan's environment ministry aims to save energy.
		Japan's Environment Ministry has a new rule aimed at cutting greenhouse gas emissions: lights out at 8 p.m.
		The new policy will be implemented at ministry headquarters beginning April 3.
		Under the gun to meet obligations under the Kyoto Protocol on global warming, Japanese ministries are trying to cut back on CO2 emissions from their offices by 7 percent from the 2001 level by March 2007.
	www.indeco.com /kyoto.nsf/d6plinks/NADR-6Q5U6D (106 words)

	Cool Biz campaign - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Japanese Ministry of the Environment (MOE) began advocating the Cool Biz campaign in summer 2005 as a means to help save energy by limiting air conditioning.
		According to the Environment Ministry, central government ministries were to set air conditioner temperatures at 28°C until September.
		Based in these figures, the ministry estimated that the campaign resulted in a 460,000-ton reduction in CO emmission, the equivalent volume of CO emitted by about 1 million households for one month.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Cool_biz (477 words)

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		The Environment Ministry neglected to reveal the nation's failure to meet its carbon dioxide (CO2) emission reduction target when it reported emission data for fiscal 2000 at a ministerial meeting in mid-July, ministry officials said Monday.
		Officials of nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) said the ministry's failure is a poor omen for Japan's pledge to reduce its emission levels 6% below 1990 levels under the Kyoto Protocol.
		The figures the ministry reported to the July 19 ministerial meeting showed CO2 emissions for fiscal 2000 had grown 10.5% from the fiscal 1990 level, or 7.9% above the fiscal 1990 level per capita.
	www.climateark.org /shared/reader/welcome.aspx?linkID=14308 (530 words)

	FT4.10
		Information on the water environment which is already been gathered and offered by numerous organizations needs to be integrated and supplied in a comprehensive and systematic manner.
		This is the normative entity of the national statistics and geographic information systems, and the Ministry of the Environment and Natural Resources’ leader institution Sector.
		The project is aimed at promoting good governance in water environment management and contributing to development of the capacity of relevant stakeholders by working together on the construction of the databases.
	www.worldwatercouncil.org /index.php?id=1254&L=0 (992 words)

	Planet Ark : Critics slam Japan's lethargy on gas emission cuts
		A rise in carbon dioxide emissions is to blame for the rise in Japan's emissions, with the Environment Ministry study showing such emissions in 1999 up nine percent from 1990 levels.
		"Japan is going to be very behind in its efforts to achieve its target without new measures," she said.
		An Environment Ministry official said it would be examined after 2005, when a review is to be held.
	www.planetark.org /dailynewsstory.cfm/newsid/16264/story.htm (872 words)

	Japanese ministry shuts off heating to meet Kyoto target - INQ7.net (Site not responding. Last check: )
		TOKYO -- Japan's Environment Ministry turned off its heating this week, leaving staff unable to even make a cup of tea, in an effort to spur the country to meet its target for reducing greenhouse gas emissions, an official said Thursday.
		The weeklong shutdown, which began Tuesday, comes as Japan lags far behind its Kyoto Protocol pledge to cut output of gases believed to be warming Earth's atmosphere to 6 percent below 1990 levels by 2010.
		The country is heavily dependent on imported oil to run its economy, though it has reduced that dependence from over 75 percent before the oil shock of 1973 to just under 50 percent in 2004, largely due to energy conservation and development of alternative energy resources.
	news.inq7.net /world/index.php?index=1&story_id=67224 (583 words)

	NEAS - Resources, Japan (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Japan is only one of many industrialized economies to suffer a financial crisis in the past 15 years, but it has suffered the most from its crisis—as measured in lost output and investment opportunities, and in the direct costs of clean-up.
		Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry, and Fisheries of Japan, Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries of Japan
		The environment surrounding Japan\'s economy and society is changing rapidly due to globalization, financial liberalization, the aging of society, as well as the changing perceptions and awarenesses of people.
	neas.miis.edu /resources-japan.html (8600 words)

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