Teruyuki Ohno has spearheaded Tokyo’s fight against global warming for more than a decade. The 60-year-old Ohno spent half of his 34-year career with the Tokyo Metropolitan Government working on environmental policies, most recently as director of its environment bureau until mid-July. He led ...

Modern societies may have developed powerful political governments and more advanced technologies, but at the same time valuable wisdom and lessons accumulated through human history often become a forgotten past. Drawing on his decades-long career of extensive research in biology, cultural anthropology and other ...

As executive director of an umbrella alliance of civic groups trying to fight poverty in developing countries, Masaki Inaba is actively engaged in policy recommendations and a public awareness campaign, with the goal of a poverty-free world. A Kyoto native, Inaba, 44, leads the ...

Japan is considered the world’s No. 1 importer of polar bear products, with items such as furs and rugs widely sold on the Internet. But with the bears at risk due to climate change and the U.S. government making moves to protect them, Japan ...

The World Wide Fund for Nature has launched a campaign to ask governments and companies to reinforce measures against the poaching of salmon in the Russian Far East. The drive by the WWF, which raises funds for projects to conserve endangered species, comes against ...

This year marks the beginning of the target period under the Kyoto Protocol in which major industrial powers are required to reduce greenhouse gas emissions through 2012. Japan is obliged to cut emissions from 1990 levels by an average of 6 percent during the ...

Japan, Europe, the United States and Canada are experiencing a sharp decline in eel populations due chiefly to overfishing, pollution and destruction of habitats because of river projects. In the face of this, the European Union endorsed a proposal in June for a 60 ...

Hiroshi Ueda of Hokkaido University will take part in an international research project put together by a group of North American and European scientists to clarify the behavior and ecology of small and large marine creatures, including whales. The marine tracking network will be ...