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Japan's annual "Cool Biz" campaign begins

Japanese Environment Ministry officials are dressed more casually than usual while working in Tokyo's Kasumigaseki area on May 1, 2025, as the annual "Cool Biz" campaign begins in the country as part of efforts to promote energy conservation.

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Japan's annual "Cool Biz" campaign begins

Japanese Environment Ministry officials are dressed more casually than usual while working in Tokyo's Kasumigaseki area on May 1, 2025, as the annual "Cool Biz" campaign begins in the country as part of efforts to promote energy conservation.

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Japanese environment minister Ito

Japanese Environment Minister Shintaro Ito holds a press conference at the ministry in Tokyo on May 24, 2024.

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Japanese environment minister Ito

Japanese Environment Minister Shintaro Ito holds a press conference at the ministry in Tokyo after a Cabinet meeting on May 17, 2024.

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Japan's annual "Cool Biz" campaign

Japanese Environment Ministry officials are dressed more casually than usual while working in Tokyo's Kasumigaseki area on May 1, 2024, as the annual "Cool Biz" campaign begins in the country as part of efforts to reduce energy use.

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Japanese citizens petition against ocean discharge of Fukushima nuclear-tainted wastewater

STORY: Japanese citizens petition against ocean discharge of Fukushima nuclear-tainted wastewater SHOOTING TIME: April 24, 2024 DATELINE: April 25, 2024 LENGTH: 0:01:16 LOCATION: Tokyo CATEGORY: POLITICS/ENVIRONMENT SHOTLIST: 1. various of over 180,000 signatures from local citizens 2. various of the petitioning campaign 3. SOUNDBITE (Japanese): MASASHI TANI, Secretary general of Japan Congress against A- and H-Bombs STORYLINE: Representatives from Japanese civic groups on Wednesday submitted over 180,000 signatures from local citizens to the Japanese government, urging both the government and Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO) to immediately halt the ocean discharge of nuclear-contaminated water from the crippled Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant. Hajime Matsukubo, secretary general of the Citizens' Nuclear Information Center, a Japanese non-profit organization, presented 184,712 citizen signatures to the representative from the Ministry of Economy, Trade, and Industry at the Second Members' Office

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Japanese Environment Minister Ito

Japanese Environment Minister Shintaro Ito speaks at a press conference at the ministry in Tokyo on Sept. 22, 2023.

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New Japanese Environment Minister Ito

New Japanese Environment Minister Shintaro Ito gives an interview at the ministry in Tokyo on Sept. 20, 2023.

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New Japanese Environment Minister Ito

New Japanese Environment Minister Shintaro Ito gives an interview at the ministry in Tokyo on Sept. 20, 2023.

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New Japanese Environment Minister Ito

New Japanese Environment Minister Shintaro Ito gives an interview at the ministry in Tokyo on Sept. 20, 2023.

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Man strives to save albatrosses on S. Pacific isle

TOKYO, Japan - Koji Nitta, an Environment Ministry official, speaks about his work protecting albatrosses on Tori-shima (literally Bird Island), an uninhabited Japanese island in the Pacific Ocean, in this file photo taken on Nov. 17, 2014. The big seabirds are listed as an endangered species.

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Sub-species of Japanese grouse raised at Toyama park

TOYAMA, Japan - A Svalbard ptarmigan, a sub-species of the Japanese grouse, is shown at the Toyama Municipal Family Park in Toyama, central Japan, on Nov. 18, 2014. The Environment Ministry is planning a test to rear the Japanese grouse, an endangered species designated as a special natural treasure, at a zoo after collecting its eggs.

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Sub-species of Japanese grouse raised at Toyama park

TOYAMA, Japan - A Toyama Municipal Family Park staff member observes Svalbard ptarmigan, hatched and reared from eggs provided by the University of Tromso in Norway, in Toyama, central Japan, on Nov. 18, 2014. The Environment Ministry is planning a test to rear the Japanese grouse, an endangered species designated as a special natural treasure, at a zoo after collecting its eggs.

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Extinct Japanese wolf's tooth found

SAITAMA, Japan - A tooth believed to be that of a Japanese wolf, an extinct species on the Environment Ministry's list, is shown in Saitama north of Tokyo on Nov. 26, 2014. It was found in October in a limestone cave in Chichibu, northwest of Tokyo, by members of the Japan Association of Cave Exploration.

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Japan, N. Korea hold talks on 2nd day

PYONGYANG, North Korea - Kim Hyon Chol, department director of North Korea's Ministry of Land and Environment Protection, attends talks on the second of two days of discussions with Japanese officials on Oct. 29, 2014, in Pyongyang, to explain the North's probe into the remains of Japanese who died around the end of World War II in what is now North Korea. (Pool photo by Kyodo News)

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Japan, U.S. eye greater defense cooperation

TOKYO, Japan - Japanese Defense Minister Akinori Eto meets the press at his ministry in Tokyo on Oct. 8, 2014, after senior government officials from Japan and the United States finalized an interim report on a review of defense cooperation guidelines. The report aims to expand the scope of cooperation between their armed forces by removing existing geographical limits, and ensure a "seamless" response amid the changing security environment.

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Japan, China, S. Korea to promote new logistics system

TOKYO, Japan - South Korean Minister of Oceans and Fisheries Lee Ju Young, Japanese transport minister Akihiro Ota, Zhou Haitao, vice minister of the Chinese Ministry of Transport, (from L to R) shake hands after signing a joint statement by the 5th Trilateral Ministerial Conference on Transport and Logistics in Yokohama, south of Tokyo, on Aug. 25, 2014. The statement reaffirms their commitment to the three goals of trilateral logistics cooperation -- creating a seamless logistics system, developing environment-friendly logistics, and achieving a balance between logistics security and efficiency.

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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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Japan sets new greenhouse gas emissions reduction target

TOKYO, Japan - Japanese Environment Minister Nobuteru Ishihara holds a press conference at the ministry in Tokyo on Nov. 15, 2013, on a new greenhouse gas emission reduction target. The Japanese government decided the same day to aim at a 3.8 percent reduction from fiscal 2005 in its greenhouse gas emissions target for fiscal 2020, assuming the country's nuclear power plants remain offline. The new target represents an increase of about 3 percent from the Kyoto Protocol base year of fiscal 1990.

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Japan enters 9th Warm Biz season

TOKYO, Japan - Officials of the Environment Ministry work at the ministry in Tokyo on Nov. 1, 2013, wearing items such as sweaters and stoles, as the Japanese government began promoting a nationwide "Warm Biz" energy-saving campaign the same day to encourage the use of warm clothing and food with body-heating effects, rather than electric heating, to fend off the autumn and winter cold. During the ninth Warm Biz season until March 31, 2014, the ministry will encourage setting room temperatures at offices and homes across the country at 20 C.

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Japan enters 9th Warm Biz season

TOKYO, Japan - Officials of the Environment Ministry work at the ministry in Tokyo on Nov. 1, 2013, wearing items such as sweaters and stoles, with an official (front) having a ginger drink to warm herself, as the Japanese government began promoting a nationwide "Warm Biz" energy-saving campaign the same day to encourage the use of warm clothing and food with body-heating effects, rather than electric heating, to fend off the autumn and winter cold. During the ninth Warm Biz season until March 31, 2014, the ministry will encourage setting room temperatures at offices and homes across the country at 20 C.

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Japanese eel designated as species at risk of extinction

TOKYO, Japan - Undated file photo shows Japanese eels. The Environment Ministry on Feb. 1, 2013, designated the Japanese eel as a species at risk of extinction on its non-legally binding red list of endangered freshwater and brackish water fish.

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Japan's greenhouse gas emissions

DOHA, Qatar - Japanese Environment Minister Hiroyuki Nagahama answers reporters' questions on Dec. 5, 2012, in Doha, Qatar, where the 18th United Nations Conference of the Parties to the U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change is being held. Greenhouse gases equivalent to 1,307 million tons of carbon dioxide were emitted in Japan in fiscal 2011 through March 2012, up 3.9 percent from the previous year, the Environment Ministry said the same day in a preliminary report.

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9 more Japanese sites listed under Ramsar Convention

TOKYO, Japan - File photo taken in June 2012 shows the Watarase reservoir, which straddles a vast area covering parts of Ibaraki, Tochigi, Gunma and Saitama prefectures. The Japanese Environment Ministry said on July 3, 2012, nine more sites in Japan, including the reservoir, have been listed under the Convention on Wetlands of International Importance.

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'Warm Biz' campaign kicks off in Japan

TOKYO, Japan - Officials of the Environment Ministry work at the ministry in Tokyo on Nov. 1, 2011, wearing cardigans, as the Japanese government began promoting a nationwide ''Warm Biz'' energy-saving campaign the same day to encourage the use of warm clothing and hot food, rather than electric heating, to fend off the autumn and winter cold. The ministry is encouraging setting room temperatures at offices and homes across the country at 20 C.

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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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Marten responsible for attacks on crested ibises in Sado

NIIGATA, Japan - Environment Ministry officials examine the roof of an enclosure at the Sado Japanese Crested Ibis Conservation Center in Niigata Prefecture on March 11, 2010, a day after nine ibises were found dead and another critically injured. The ministry said it has determined that the birds were attacked by a marten.

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Gov't appeals court decision over Isahaya

TOKYO, Japan - People stage a sit-in in front of the farm ministry in Tokyo on July 10 after the Japanese government appealed a district court ruling that ordered the state to open the Isahaya Bay dike in Nagasaki Prefecture, citing concerns that opening it will expose the area to risks of high tides which would damage farming business on the reclaimed land there. Fishermen claim the government's project to fill the bay has damaged the seawater environment in the area and their fishery businesses.

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Hollywood movie staff visit environment minister

TOKYO, Japan - Japanese Environment Minister Yuriko Koike (C) poses with actor Dennis Quaid (L) and crew of the Hollywood movie 'The Day After Tomorrow,' which depicts dramatic weather changes as a result of global warming, at her office in Tokyo on May 31. The Japanese ministry is promoting anti-global warming campaigns with the movie.

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Japan, China join hands to protect crested ibises

TOKYO, Japan - Japanese Environment Minister Yuriko Koike (R) and China's Zhou Shengxian, director of the state bureau in forestry, shake hands after signing an agreement on long-term joint efforts to protect crested ibises at the Environment Ministry in Tokyo on Oct. 27.

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Japan names 8 senior vice ministers

TOKYO, Japan - Photo shows eight new senior vice ministers whom the Japanese government replaced on Jan. 8. From left to right on the top are Akihiko Kumashiro of the Cabinet Office, Genichiro Sata and Kaneshige Wakamatsu of the Ministry of Public Management, Home Affairs, Posts and Telecommunications, and Takayoshi Taniguchi of the Finance Ministry. From left to right on the bottom are Kazuaki Miyaji and Yasu Kano of the Ministry of Health, Labor, and Welfare, Shigeaki Tsukihara of the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport, and Eiichi Yamashita of the Ministry of Environment.

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U.S., Japan environment chiefs meet in Tokyo

Japanese Environment Minister Akihiro Nishimura (L) and U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Michael Regan shake hands at the Environment Ministry in Tokyo on Sept. 2, 2022.

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Japanese Environment Minister Nishimura

New Japanese Environment Minister Akihiro Nishimura gives an interview at the ministry in Tokyo on Aug. 17, 2022.

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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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U.S. climate envoy Kerry in Tokyo

Japanese Environment Minister Shinjiro Koizumi (2nd from R) and U.S. climate envoy John Kerry (far L) hold talks at the ministry in Tokyo on Aug. 31, 2021.

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U.S. climate envoy Kerry in Tokyo

Japanese Environment Minister Shinjiro Koizumi (R) and U.S. climate envoy John Kerry pose for photos ahead of their talks at the ministry in Tokyo on Aug. 31, 2021.

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Japan names 8 senior vice ministers

TOKYO, Japan - Photo shows eight new senior vice ministers whom the Japanese government replaced on Jan. 8. From left to right on the top are Akihiko Kumashiro of the Cabinet Office, Genichiro Sata and Kaneshige Wakamatsu of the Ministry of Public Management, Home Affairs, Posts and Telecommunications, and Takayoshi Taniguchi of the Finance Ministry. From left to right on the bottom are Kazuaki Miyaji and Yasu Kano of the Ministry of Health, Labor, and Welfare, Shigeaki Tsukihara of the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport, and Eiichi Yamashita of the Ministry of Environment.

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Last of Japan's original crested ibises dies

NIIBO, Japan - Photo taken on Sept. 17, 2003 shows Kin, the last crested ibis to have been born in the wild in Japan, that died from old age at a breeding center in the village of Niibo, Niigata Prefecture on Oct. 10. The female ibis was found dead at the Sado Japanese Crested Ibis Conservation Center on Sado Island in the Sea of Japan, the Environment Ministry said. (Kyodo)

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Japan asks Britain to ensure stable business environment after vote

Japanese Foreign Minister Fumio Kishida (L) meets with British Ambassador to Japan Tim Hitchens at his ministry in Tokyo on June 27, 2016. Kishida asked Hitchens to help ensure a stable business environment for Japanese companies in Britain, in the wake of the country's vote to leave the European Union. (Kyodo) ==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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'Super Cool Biz' campaign kicks off in Japan

Environment Ministry employees dress casually in Hawaiian shirts in Tokyo on June 1, 2015, as the Japanese government launched its annual "Super Cool Biz" campaign to promote energy saving in the workplace. The campaign began in 2011, when concerns about electricity shortages grew following the Fukushima nuclear crisis. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Japanese aquariums to stop acquiring Taiji drive hunt dolphins

Kazutoshi Arai (L), chairman of the Japanese Association of Zoos and Aquariums, wipes sweat off his face during a press conference at the Environment Ministry in Tokyo on May 20, 2015. The association said the same day it will prohibit members from acquiring dolphins caught in drive hunts off the town of Taiji in western Japan, after the association faced being expelled from a global zoo body that has criticized the practice as cruel. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Japanese aquariums to stop acquiring Taiji drive hunt dolphins

Kazutoshi Arai (L), chairman of the Japanese Association of Zoos and Aquariums, holds a press conference at the Environment Ministry in Tokyo on May 20, 2015. The association said the same day it will prohibit members from acquiring dolphins caught in drive hunts off the town of Taiji in western Japan, after the association faced being expelled from a global zoo body that has criticized the practice as cruel. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Experts mull means to curb harbor seal population amid fishermen's outcry

Experts meet in Sapporo on Sept. 17, 2015, to discuss measures for controlling the population of harbor seals in Hokkaido, northern Japan, after the Environment Ministry lowered their status by one level from "vulnerable" to "near threatened" on the Japanese Red List of endangered species. Fishermen have complained that the seals, whose population has recovered from a previous drop, are causing damage to their haul. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Gov't appeals court decision over Isahaya

TOKYO, Japan - People stage a sit-in in front of the farm ministry in Tokyo on July 10 after the Japanese government appealed a district court ruling that ordered the state to open the Isahaya Bay dike in Nagasaki Prefecture, citing concerns that opening it will expose the area to risks of high tides which would damage farming business on the reclaimed land there. Fishermen claim the government's project to fill the bay has damaged the seawater environment in the area and their fishery businesses. (Kyodo)

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Marten responsible for attacks on crested ibises in Sado

NIIGATA, Japan - Environment Ministry officials examine the roof of an enclosure at the Sado Japanese Crested Ibis Conservation Center in Niigata Prefecture on March 11, 2010, a day after nine ibises were found dead and another critically injured. The ministry said it has determined that the birds were attacked by a marten. (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)