The nation's environment policies were placed under the microscope recently by an OECD team that was conducting the information-gathering stage of its second review of Japan's environmental policy.
After nearly three weeks of meetings with central and local government officials, and industry and nongovernmental experts, the head of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development team returned home Thursday to analyze the data it collected.
"This is the second review, so we will look at the way the recommendations (from the first review) have been followed up," said Christian Averous, the chief of the OECD's Environmental Performance and Information Division, in a recent interview.