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POLLUTION

Japan Times
BUSINESS
Jan 17, 2019
Plastics and consumer goods makers announce $1.5 billion pledge to rein in waste
Global companies including BASF, DowDuPont, Procter & Gamble and SABIC have formed an alliance to fight plastic waste, pledging to spend $1.5 billion over the next five years.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Science & Health
Jan 16, 2019
Trash talk: Tokyo city opens bar in waste-management facility to spark environment debate
Like many Tokyoites, Miki Takara, 53, was sipping beer and indulging in specially prepared delicacies at a bar on a recent Friday evening. But something made this scene in Tokyo's western city of Musashino a bit different: At this bar, the only thing separating her from a concrete waste pit was a single...
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC / Science & Health
Jan 11, 2019
India launches national program to fight air pollution, but experts are skeptical
India has launched a program to rein in dangerous pollution levels in more than a hundred cities, an initiative the government expects to significantly improve air quality.
Japan Times
WORLD / Politics
Jan 10, 2019
Trump makes ex-coal lobbyist's position as chief of U.S. environment agency permanent
U.S. President Donald Trump on Wednesday nominated acting EPA chief Andrew Wheeler to run the agency permanently, the White House said, placing a former energy lobbyist at the helm of the nation's top environmental regulator.
Japan Times
WORLD / Science & Health
Dec 26, 2018
New Delhi residents spend Christmas indoors as smog crisis stretches into fourth day
Many Delhi residents were forced to spend Christmas indoors this year as air quality remained at "severe to emergency" levels for a fourth day, in the Indian capital's worst smog crisis this year.
Japan Times
ENVIRONMENT
Dec 24, 2018
New Delhi chokes as pollution levels in Indian capital hit the worst level this year
Pollution levels in New Delhi have hit their worst this year in the past two days — earning a "severe" to "emergency" rating and indicating conditions that can spark a public health crisis.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC / Science & Health
Dec 10, 2018
Bug business: Cockroaches corralled by the millions in China to crunch waste
In the near pitch-dark, you can hear them before you see them — millions of cockroaches scuttling and fluttering across stacks of wooden boards as they devour food scraps by the ton in a novel form of urban waste disposal.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Dec 7, 2018
Trump to roll back Obama-era carbon rule, opening door for new coal plants
The Trump administration took aim at two Obama-era environmental policies on Thursday to boost the oil and coal industries, proposing to open up a wildlife habitat to drilling and mining and to remove hurdles to the construction of coal-fired power plants.
Japan Times
WORLD / Science & Health
Dec 7, 2018
12.5% of Indian deaths due to polluted air: study
India's toxic air claimed 1.24 million lives in 2017 — 12.5 percent of total deaths recorded that year — according to a study published in Lancet Planetary Health on Thursday.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Nov 27, 2018
Ben Lecomte ends bid to swim from Japan across Pacific after support boat suffers damage
On June 5 Ben Lecomte entered the ocean off Chiba Prefecture to begin his attempt at a record-breaking swim across the Pacific, with the aim of shining a light on ocean pollution and plastic contamination.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Nov 26, 2018
China will strive to do better in climate change fight, country's climate envoy says
China will work to achieve its existing greenhouse gas targets and strive to do better as the challenges of climate change become more urgent, Xie Zhenhua, the country's top climate envoy, said at a briefing Monday.
ASIA PACIFIC
Nov 23, 2018
China touts increase in prosecutions for pollution offenses
China prosecuted more than 3,500 people for pollution-related crimes in the first 10 months of the year, up nearly 40 percent on a year ago, law enforcement authorities said, as Beijing looks to courts and police to curb violations.
Japan Times
WORLD
Nov 21, 2018
Californians left homeless by wildfire brace for heavy rain, mudslides
Heavy rains were due to create new problems for residents of Northern California late on Tuesday, raising the risk of mudslides in an area where people left homeless by the state's deadliest wildfire remain huddled in parking lot encampments.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Politics
Nov 15, 2018
Tokyo joins ASEAN action plan to take on plastic waste in world's oceans
Japan on Thursday offered to cooperate with other Asian countries to address ocean pollution by reducing plastic debris.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Nov 14, 2018
H&M to halt use of plastic bags at Japan stores and charge for paper bags
H&M Hennes & Mauritz Japan K.K., which operates 88 H&M casual clothing stores in the country, said Tuesday that it will abolish use of plastic shopping bags in December.
Japan Times
WORLD / Science & Health
Nov 14, 2018
Every breath you take: Indian capital's smog leaves children gasping for air
Deepa Tampi worries a lot about the air her two children breathe. The garment exporter says she believes her 14-year-old daughter Mahika and 12-year-old son Vihaan both became asthmatic because of high levels of pollution in the New Delhi area.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Nov 13, 2018
You probably had plastic for breakfast
Welcome to a global experiment about the effects of eating and drinking microplastic.
EDITORIALS
Nov 3, 2018
Cut back on disposable plastic
The government is finally tackling Japan's outsized production and consumption of single-use plastic product.
Japan Times
WORLD / FOCUS
Nov 3, 2018
Will future mega-cities be a marvel or a mess? Look at New Delhi
Focus
Japan Times
WORLD
Nov 3, 2018
South Africans make bricks from human urine
South African researchers have made bricks using human urine in a process that could one day help reduce global warming emissions by finding a productive use for the waste product.
Japan's population continues to fall even as foreign resident count rises
The number of residents in Tokyo as of Jan. 1 rose by 0.03% from a year before, data shows, marking a year-on-year increase for the first time in three years, while the country's other 46 prefectures saw their populations continue to decline.
Ahead of the Olympics, Japan is still talking about the gymnast who won't be there
Japan's Shoko Miyata withdrew from the gymnastics team herself over her drinking and smoking, although it had already appeared as though the association was prepared to send her home from the team’s training camp in Monaco.
Yen melt-up nudges Japanese stocks into correction territory
Japanese stocks are down 10% from their July peak as the yen strengthens.
‘Crazy’ yen rally is at risk of shattering as soon as Wednesday
Some investors are warning that a yen rally is fragile, as was on show this week when the yen rapidly retraced an advance after Thursday’s stronger-than-expected U.S. economic growth figures.
Japan's average life expectancy rises for first time in three years
A decline in COVID-19-caused deaths likely helped boost the average life expectancy for Japanese men and women to rise for the first time in three years in 2023.
The Japanese Olympians looking to shine in Paris
Rim Nakamura, who is attempting to win Japan's first Olympic gold medal in cycling, will be one of the top Japanese athletes to watch at the Paris Games.
Japan’s minimum wage set for record ¥50 hike in major boost
Demonstrators rally to demand a big hike in minimum wages in Tokyo last week.
Japan loses top spot on strongest passport list to Singapore
Japan had the strongest passport for six years running from 2018, before being dethroned by Singapore on the 2024 list.
Why Japan's mysterious stash of classified funds escapes scrutiny
Prime Minister Fumio Kishida and Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshimasa Hayashi (right) during a meeting in Tokyo on Tuesday.
Japan eyes gold — and the future — as Olympic men's soccer campaign begins
Japan midfielder Yu Hirakawa controls the ball during a match against the United States in Kansas City, Kansas, on June 11.

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