In 2022 the UN Environment Programme’s Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee on Plastic Pollution has argued for a new international treaty on plastic pollution. It is common knowledge that plastics ...

Japan’s emissions inched lower led by a contraction in pollution from the industrial sector. Emissions from the world’s fourth-largest economy slipped 2.3% in the year ending March 2023 to 1.085 ...

UTSUNOMIYA—The death of a friend during childhood continues to haunt Wakana Takahashi, but the tragedy sparked her interest in Japan’s worst pollution cases and pushed her toward a career related to ...

Seventy years have passed since Minamata disease, known in Japan as "the starting point of environmental pollution problems," ...