After the defeat of Germany and Japan in World War II, many of their industrial plants and infrastructure were demolished. This gave the two nations a serious devotion to rebuilding their capacities.

Garbage sorting is a well established ritual in Japan that few question, despite the time and effort involved. A typical resident of a major city has Mondays and Thursdays as options to take ...

Japan's Kamikatsu, a town of 1,500, achieved an 80% recycling rate by embracing a radical zero-waste policy. Residents meticulously sort waste into 45 categories, with initiatives like the Kurukuru ...

Japan's Nuclear Waste Management Organisation has begun the initial stage of assessing two municipalities in Hokkaido Prefecture for their suitability to host a final disposal facility for high-level ...

Fumio Kaneko, cofounder and president of waste management company Daiei Kankyo. Last December, the company raised $315 million from an IPO in Tokyo Stock Exchange. One of Japan’s largest IPOs in 2022 ...

The fourth and largest shipment so far of high-level waste from the UK to Japan has been completed. All such waste, resulting from the reprocessing of used reactor fuel, should be returned from the UK ...

Japan has provided infectious waste management equipment to 15 hospitals, across all nine provinces, in line with an agreement reached with the previous Wickremesinghe-Rajapaksa government. The ...

PV Cycle, a not-for-profit take-back and waste management programme for solar PV technology in Europe, has launched a service in japan. PV Cycle has already signed for the first Japanese PV collection ...