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Japan’s Efforts to Prevent and/or Adopt to Climate-Related Water Issues are B-Moderately Effective
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Japan’s Efforts to Prevent and/or Adopt to Climate-Related Water Issues are B-Moderately Effective

B-Moderately Effective According to the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism of Japan (MLIT, 2022-a), Japan has a water supply coverage rate of over 98% and is one of the few countries (only 11 countries in the world, including Japan) where tap water is drinkable without modification due to its high water quality. Japan...

Japan’s National Greenhouse Gas Emissions Removals for the Fiscal Year 2021
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Japan’s National Greenhouse Gas Emissions Removals for the Fiscal Year 2021

COUNTRY PROGRESS in the First Half of 2023 C Rating On 23rd April 2023, The Ministry of the Environment and the National Institute for Environmental Studies released Japan’s National Greenhouse Gas Emissions and Removals (final figures) for fiscal year (FY) 2021 (April 2021 – March 2022). This means the following release timing is April 2024...

Current Areas Where Indigenous People in Japan Have Been Resettled Have Not Been Greatly Affected by Climate Change
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Current Areas Where Indigenous People in Japan Have Been Resettled Have Not Been Greatly Affected by Climate Change

The Ainu people are the only officially recognized indigenous people in Japan (Ministry of Foreign Affairs, 2014). When we say that the Ainu are an indigenous people of Japan, we mean that Japan, as a modern nation, has exerted domination over the Ainu people and that the Japanese government bears responsibility for that domination (Kitahara...

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