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Alpinists join hands to protect Mt. Fuji, Mt. Everest

TOKYO, Japan - Ang Tshering Sherpa (L center), president of the Nepal Mountaineering Association, Japanese alpinist Ken Noguchi (R center) pose for a photo at the Environment Ministry in Tokyo on June 3, 2014, following the signing of a document on the cooperation to protect the environment of Japan's Mt. Fuji and the world's highest peak Mt. Everest.

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Kushiro wetland

KUSHIRO, Japan - File photo taken in February 2014 shows red-crested white cranes in the Kushiro wetland, Japan's largest marshland, on the northernmost main island of Hokkaido. The Environment Ministry said in a report released May 23, 2014, that the annual economic value of wetlands and mudlands across Japan, including the Kushiro wetland, is estimated at 1.4 trillion to 1.6 trillion yen (about $13.8 billion to $15.7 billion) in such forms as water purification and supply of foods.

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'Cool Biz' campaign starts in Japan

TOKYO, Japan - Employees at the Environment Ministry work without ties in their office in Tokyo on May 1, 2012, when Japan's government ministries and both houses of parliament began the ''Cool Biz'' summertime casual wear campaign aimed at saving power by reducing the use of air conditioning.

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'Cool Biz' campaign starts in Japan

TOKYO, Japan - Employees at the Environment Ministry work without ties in their office in Tokyo on May 1, 2012, when Japan's government ministries and both houses of parliament began the ''Cool Biz'' summertime casual wear campaign aimed at saving power by reducing the use of air conditioning.

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Japan unveils ideas for new nuclear safety agency

TOKYO, Japan - Goshi Hosono, minister in charge of the crisis at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, speaks during a press conference in Tokyo on Aug. 5, 2011. He unveiled a set of ideas to improve nuclear safety in Japan, proposing that a new agency be set up under either the Environment Ministry or the Cabinet Office. ''Japan's national interests will be seriously damaged'' if the regulatory reform fails, Hosono said.

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Hawaii delegates visit Japan's Environment Ministry to promote Aloha shirts

TOKYO, Japan - Miss Hawaii USA 2009 Aureana Tseu (L) and Japanese Environment Minister Satsuki Eda pose for photos after Eda put on an Aloha shirt presented by Tseu as a gift at the ministry building in Tokyo on July 27, 2011. She and other delegates from the American state visited the ministry to promote the shirt as a tool to implement the ministry's Cool Biz campaign encouraging Japanese public and private sectors to dress casually as part of power saving efforts.

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Hawaii delegates visit Japan's Environment Ministry to promote Aloha shirts

TOKYO, Japan - A dancer from Hawaii (L) performs a hula dance in front of Japanese Environment Minister Satsuki Eda (R) and other ministry officials at the ministry building in Tokyo on July 27, 2011. Delegates from the American state visited the ministry to promote Aloha shirts as a tool to implement the ministry's Cool Biz campaign encouraging Japanese public and private sectors to dress casually as part of power saving efforts.

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Hawaii delegates visit Japan's Environment Ministry to promote Aloha shirts

TOKYO, Japan - Miss Hawaii USA 2009 Aureana Tseu (L) presents an Aloha shirt as a gift to Japanese Environment Minister Satsuki Eda at the ministry building in Tokyo on July 27, 2011. She and other delegates from the American state visited the ministry to promote the shirt as a tool to implement the ministry's Cool Biz campaign encouraging Japanese public and private sectors to dress casually as part of power saving efforts.

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U.N. convention on climate change

BANGKOK, Thailand - Hideki Minamikawa (L front), vice minister at Japan's Environment Ministry, attends a U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change meeting in Bangkok on April 3, 2011.

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Still no clear idea of medium-term fiscal targets: Kan

TOKYO, Japan - Finance Minister Naoto Kan speaks to a group of reporters at the Finance Ministry in Tokyo on Jan. 14, 2010. Kan said he has no clear idea yet on how to set medium-term numerical targets to restore Japan's worsening fiscal health, due to uncertainties in the economic environment in the months ahead.

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Minister says 7% CO2 cut for 2020 'not ambitious enough'

TOKYO, Japan - Environment Minister Tetsuo Saito speaks in an interview with Kyodo News at the Environment Ministry in Tokyo on June 3. Saito said he believes a plan to slash Japan's greenhouse gas emissions by 7 percent by 2020 from 1990 levels is ''not ambitious enough'' and that the nation should be able to achieve a 15 percent cut.

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Fish-cake cooking oil converted to bio-diesel fuel in Miyagi

SENDAI, Japan - The city of Shiogama, Miyagi Prefecture, Japan's largest fish-cake processing base, has been producing bio-diesel from cooking oil disposed by fish-cake makers in the city, selling the product at 105 yen per liter, substantially cheaper than ordinary diesel sold at gas filling stations. Each year, fish-cake makers in Shiogama dispose of more than 500,000 liters of used cooking oil, which had been sold to outside dealers for use as fat in pet food or as ink solvent. The city started converting used cooking oil to bio-diesel in November 2006 with subsidies from the Ministry of Environment. The photo shows an employee at the bio-diesel fuel station in Shiogama filling up a diesel truck.

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Japan, China, S. Korea, Russia discuss marine litter in NW Pacific

TOYAMA, Japan - UNEP Regional Seas Program Coordinator Ellik Adler delivers a keynote speech as government officials and environment experts from Japan, China, South Korea and Russia open a two-day meeting in the city of Toyama on the Japan Sea on Nov. 14 to discuss littering in the northwest Pacific Ocean. The First International Workshop on Marine Litter in the Northwest Pacific Region is hosted by the Northwest Pacific Region Environmental Cooperation Center under Japan's Environment Ministry.

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Gov't to recommend Shiretoko as world heritage site

SHIRETOKO, Japan - Japan's Environment Ministry decided Oct. 16 to recommend the Shiretoko region (shown) in Hokkaido as a candidate site for the world natural heritage list.

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China urges Japan to stop pushing forward ocean discharge plan of nuclear-contaminated water

STORY: China urges Japan to stop pushing forward ocean discharge plan of nuclear-contaminated water DATELINE: July 14, 2022 LENGTH: 00:01:17 LOCATION: Beijing CATEGORY: POLITICS SHOTLIST: 1. SOUNDBITE (Chinese/English interpretation): WANG WENBIN, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson STORYLINE: SOUNDBITE (Chinese/English interpretation): WANG WENBIN, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson "China has noted the statement by the foreign ministers of PICs. It reflects the grave concern shared by the international community over Japan's disposal of nuclear-contaminated water from Fukushima. It makes it clear, once again, that this is not Japan's private matter, as it bears on the global marine environment and public health in the countries concerned. Regrettably, the Japanese government has failed to offer any science-based convincing explanation on the reliability of data on nuclear-contaminated water, the efficacy of the treatment system and the uncertainty of environmental impact. On the contrary, it has bee

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Fish-cake cooking oil converted to bio-diesel fuel in Miyagi

SENDAI, Japan - The city of Shiogama, Miyagi Prefecture, Japan's largest fish-cake processing base, has been producing bio-diesel from cooking oil disposed by fish-cake makers in the city, selling the product at 105 yen per liter, substantially cheaper than ordinary diesel sold at gas filling stations. Each year, fish-cake makers in Shiogama dispose of more than 500,000 liters of used cooking oil, which had been sold to outside dealers for use as fat in pet food or as ink solvent. The city started converting used cooking oil to bio-diesel in November 2006 with subsidies from the Ministry of Environment. The photo shows an employee at the bio-diesel fuel station in Shiogama filling up a diesel truck. (Kyodo)

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Japan's first lady attends environment ministry symposium

Akie Abe (L), the wife of Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, and Toyama Mayor Masashi Mori attend a symposium hosted by the Environment Ministry in Toyama, Japan, on Feb. 20, 2016. The city will host an environment ministers' meeting from May 15 to 16, immediately before the Group of Seven summit to be held in the Ise-Shima area in Mie Prefecture, central Japan. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Japan's first lady attends environment ministry symposium

Akie Abe, the wife of Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, attends a symposium hosted by the Environment Ministry in Toyama, Japan, on Feb. 20, 2016. Toyama will host an environment ministers' meeting from May 15 to 16, immediately before the Group of Seven summit to be held in the Ise-Shima area in Mie Prefecture, central Japan. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Environment Ministry mulls proposal for new nature protection tax

A speaker makes a presentation during a public symposium hosted by the Environment Ministry in Tokyo on May 30, 2015, to discuss mechanisms, including a new tax, to protect Japan's rich nature both on land and at sea. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Minister says 7% CO2 cut for 2020 'not ambitious enough'

TOKYO, Japan - Environment Minister Tetsuo Saito speaks in an interview with Kyodo News at the Environment Ministry in Tokyo on June 3. Saito said he believes a plan to slash Japan's greenhouse gas emissions by 7 percent by 2020 from 1990 levels is ''not ambitious enough'' and that the nation should be able to achieve a 15 percent cut. (Kyodo)

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Japan, China, S. Korea, Russia discuss marine litter in NW Pacif

TOYAMA, Japan - UNEP Regional Seas Program Coordinator Ellik Adler delivers a keynote speech as government officials and environment experts from Japan, China, South Korea and Russia open a two-day meeting in the city of Toyama on the Japan Sea on Nov. 14 to discuss littering in the northwest Pacific Ocean. The First International Workshop on Marine Litter in the Northwest Pacific Region is hosted by the Northwest Pacific Region Environmental Cooperation Center under Japan's Environment Ministry. (Kyodo)

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Japan, China, S. Korea, Russia discuss marine litter in NW Pacif

TOYAMA, Japan - UNEP Regional Seas Program Coordinator Ellik Adler delivers a keynote speech as government officials and environment experts from Japan, China, South Korea and Russia open a two-day meeting in the city of Toyama on the Japan Sea on Nov. 14 to discuss littering in the northwest Pacific Ocean. The First International Workshop on Marine Litter in the Northwest Pacific Region is hosted by the Northwest Pacific Region Environmental Cooperation Center under Japan's Environment Ministry. (Kyodo)

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Japan unveils ideas for new nuclear safety agency

TOKYO, Japan - Goshi Hosono, minister in charge of the crisis at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, speaks during a press conference in Tokyo on Aug. 5, 2011. He unveiled a set of ideas to improve nuclear safety in Japan, proposing that a new agency be set up under either the Environment Ministry or the Cabinet Office. ''Japan's national interests will be seriously damaged'' if the regulatory reform fails, Hosono said. (Kyodo)

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Hawaii delegates visit Japan's Environment Ministry to promote Al

TOKYO, Japan - Miss Hawaii USA 2009 Aureana Tseu (L) and Japanese Environment Minister Satsuki Eda pose for photos after Eda put on an Aloha shirt presented by Tseu as a gift at the ministry building in Tokyo on July 27, 2011. She and other delegates from the American state visited the ministry to promote the shirt as a tool to implement the ministry's Cool Biz campaign encouraging Japanese public and private sectors to dress casually as part of power saving efforts. (Kyodo)

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Hawaii delegates visit Japan's Environment Ministry to promote Al

TOKYO, Japan - A dancer from Hawaii (L) performs a hula dance in front of Japanese Environment Minister Satsuki Eda (R) and other ministry officials at the ministry building in Tokyo on July 27, 2011. Delegates from the American state visited the ministry to promote Aloha shirts as a tool to implement the ministry's Cool Biz campaign encouraging Japanese public and private sectors to dress casually as part of power saving efforts. (Kyodo)

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Hawaii delegates visit Japan's Environment Ministry to promote Al

TOKYO, Japan - Miss Hawaii USA 2009 Aureana Tseu (L) presents an Aloha shirt as a gift to Japanese Environment Minister Satsuki Eda at the ministry building in Tokyo on July 27, 2011. She and other delegates from the American state visited the ministry to promote the shirt as a tool to implement the ministry's Cool Biz campaign encouraging Japanese public and private sectors to dress casually as part of power saving efforts. (Kyodo)

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'Cool Biz' campaign starts in Japan

TOKYO, Japan - Employees at the Environment Ministry work without ties in their office in Tokyo on May 1, 2012, when Japan's government ministries and both houses of parliament began the ''Cool Biz'' summertime casual wear campaign aimed at saving power by reducing the use of air conditioning. (Kyodo)

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'Cool Biz' campaign starts in Japan

TOKYO, Japan - Employees at the Environment Ministry work without ties in their office in Tokyo on May 1, 2012, when Japan's government ministries and both houses of parliament began the ''Cool Biz'' summertime casual wear campaign aimed at saving power by reducing the use of air conditioning. (Kyodo)

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U.N. convention on climate change

BANGKOK, Thailand - Hideki Minamikawa (L front), vice minister at Japan's Environment Ministry, attends a U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change meeting in Bangkok on April 3, 2011. (Kyodo)

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Still no clear idea of medium-term fiscal targets: Kan

TOKYO, Japan - Finance Minister Naoto Kan speaks to a group of reporters at the Finance Ministry in Tokyo on Jan. 14, 2010. Kan said he has no clear idea yet on how to set medium-term numerical targets to restore Japan's worsening fiscal health, due to uncertainties in the economic environment in the months ahead. (Kyodo)

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First day at work for new employees

New employees of Japan's Environment Ministry watch a video of Minister Shinjiro Koizumi's address at the ministry in Tokyo on their first day at work on April 1, 2020. The ministry canceled the ceremony for new employees due to the spread of the new coronavirus. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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First day at work for new employees

New employees of Japan's Environment Ministry watch a video of Minister Shinjiro Koizumi's address at the ministry in Tokyo on their first day at work on April 1, 2020. The ministry canceled the ceremony for new employees due to the spread of the new coronavirus. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Japan logo for COP25

Japanese Environment Minister Shinjiro Koizumi holds a press conference at his ministry in Tokyo on Nov. 29, 2019, revealing the logo to be used at Japan's booth during the U.N. Climate Change Conference, COP25, taking place Dec. 2-13 in Spain. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Shinjuku Gyoen national garden in Tokyo

Photo taken Jan. 25, 2019, shows the Shinjuku Gyoen national garden in Tokyo, a famous accessible oasis within the busy metropolis. Japan's Environment Ministry is stepping up its efforts to increase the number of foreign visitors to the garden. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Shinjuku Gyoen national garden in Tokyo

Photo taken Jan. 25, 2019, shows the Shinjuku Gyoen national garden in Tokyo, a famous accessible oasis within the busy metropolis. Japan's Environment Ministry is stepping up its efforts to increase the number of foreign visitors to the garden. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Shinjuku Gyoen national garden in Tokyo

Photo taken Jan. 25, 2019, shows the Shinjuku Gyoen national garden in Tokyo, a famous accessible oasis within the busy metropolis. Japan's Environment Ministry is stepping up its efforts to increase the number of foreign visitors to the garden. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Shinjuku Gyoen national garden in Tokyo

Photo taken Jan. 25, 2019, shows the Shinjuku Gyoen national garden in Tokyo, a famous accessible oasis within the busy metropolis. Japan's Environment Ministry is stepping up its efforts to increase the number of foreign visitors to the garden. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Japan begins "Warm Biz" campaign to cut heating energy use

Employees of Japan's Environment Ministry work in thermal clothing in their Tokyo office on Nov. 1, 2017, as the government begins its seasonal "Warm Biz" energy-saving campaign, encouraging people to beat the cold by making a variety of environmentally conscious choices in their everyday lives. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Japan's Environment Ministry begins enhanced fire ant probes

A worker sets a trap to ensnare ants on Port Island, an artificial island in western Japan's Kobe, on July 31, 2017, during a probe aimed at preventing the spread of fire ants. The Environment Ministry stepped up its investigations to better detect the venomous insects, which were found for the first time in Japan in late May. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Japan's Environment Ministry begins enhanced fire ant probes

A worker takes samples on Port Island, an artificial island in western Japan's Kobe, on July 31, 2017, during a probe aimed at preventing the spread of fire ants. The Environment Ministry stepped up its investigations to better detect the venomous insects, which were found for the first time in Japan in late May. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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13th season of "Cool Biz" casual-wear campaign starts

Environment Ministry officials, dressed more casually than usual, work at their office in Tokyo on May 1, 2017, when the 13th season of Japan's annual "Cool Biz" campaign started as part of efforts to reduce energy use. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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13th season of "Cool Biz" casual-wear campaign starts

Environment Ministry officials, dressed more casually than usual, work at their office in Tokyo on May 1, 2017, when the 13th season of Japan's annual "Cool Biz" campaign started as part of efforts to reduce energy use. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Japanese huchen fish move upstream in Hokkaido river

A breeding pair of Japanese huchen, about 80 centimeters in length, move upstream for reproduction in a river in the northern part of Hokkaido on April 29, 2017, with the male (top) in the breeding color of red. A member of the salmon family, the Japanese huchen is Japan's largest freshwater fish and is listed as endangered by the Environment Ministry. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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English to become official course from 5th grade in Japan

A panel of Japan's education ministry unveils its proposed curriculum guidelines in Tokyo on Aug. 1, 2016, including a plan to teach English as an official course from the fifth grade at elementary level to better prepare students for an international environment. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Gov't to recommend Shiretoko as world heritage site

SHIRETOKO, Japan - Japan's Environment Ministry decided Oct. 16 to recommend the Shiretoko region (shown) in Hokkaido as a candidate site for the world natural heritage list. (Kyodo)