Japan making its mark by reducing it – with Bicycles!
Why the heck there’s so much pollution in cities, such noise and heavy air compared to towns and villages, where the pollution count is much lower? And the air is as...
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Grandpa Oyster & the ‘Forests are Lovers of the Sea’ Campaign. Meet Shigeatsu Hatakeyama.
Grandpa Oyster is the mythical alias attached to Shigeatsu Hatakeyama, the nurturer of forests and the cleanser of oceans in Japan’s Kesennuma Bay. Faced with the...
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ECO+WAZA: Caring about environment; Japanese style
Tokyo-based company eco+waza is drawing on Japanese tradition to inspire an environmentally-conscious lifestyle revolution. YL volunteer Nicola caught up with Founder...
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Back from the Brink: Revitalising the Endangered Oriental White Stork Population
Already extinct in Korea, with only small populations left in China, Russia and Japan, the Oriental White Stork sits high on the world’s list of endangered...
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Seikatsu Club Consumers’ Co-operative:Housewives in action
In an era of inflation and rising costs, the single biggest challenge to any woman is how to ensure that the day-to-day needs of the family are qualitatively met within...
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Plant TREES, Re-create FORESTS, Protect FUTURE: Dr. Akira Miyawaki preaches
“We have to know that we humans are one of the life forms on the earth. Even though we build up artificial environments where all our momentary demands are supplied,...
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Poker for Japan with ZYNGA and ‘Save the Children’
日本, nihon or “origin of the rising sun”, consisting of over 6 000 islands, is a mostly mountainous and rugged surface which holds the legendary Mount Fuji, small...
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Ashoka Japan’s Pilot project for Elementary Education
Before writing anything, I remember these two beautiful lines once a friend recited me long time ago. “Even inside a loser there is a king, Just like the ugly...
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Sports fans generate electricity in Japan
Not only are fans going to be enjoying the soccer match this year in Kobe, but they’ll be contributing to a more sustainable future by creating electricity under their...
Read MoreHaruka Maruno (12): Eco-friendly paper scoops for your doggie poo
Youth always brings fresh, talented and creative ideas but as Aristotle once said “young minds are easily deceived because they are quick to hope”. Well, young...
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The Shibuya Flower Project asking you to Feed Your Mind by Growing Flowers
Living in this urban and industrial era, when deforestation and loss of biodiversity remain a serious problem at the global level, one Japanese volunteer group The...
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