Sekisui Chemical Co., Ltd. and Sumitomo Chemical Co., Ltd. have agreed in February to form a strategic alliance to cooperate in manufacturing polyolefin from combustible waste. Previously, Sekisui Chemical has worked with a U.S. corporation...
As the world’s population keeps growing and the amount of resource and energy consumption rises simultaneously, countries and enterprises must make conversions in strategies or business models and make action to achieve a sustainable society...
The town of Kamikatsu is located in Tokushima prefecture, in the island of Shikoku. Kamikatsu has become famous worldwide for the town’s declaration to aim zero-waste by 2020. As the world is gradually moving toward a circular economy, where...
FamilyMart Co., Ltd., a Japanese convenience store chain, has started a new service that will improve accessibility for people in wheelchairs. The company will provide information on accessible toilets to WheeLog!, an accessibility app created by a...
Takunan Shoji (herein after Takunan), an enterprise based in Okinawa, specializes in recycling various materials. Takunan scraps over 6,600 discarded vehicles every month, but had trouble concerning the windows of these vehicles. They could not...
Plan International (herein after ‘Plan’) is a public foundation based in Tokyo It is committed to solving issues related to children’s rights, and helping children around the world to live without poverty, violence or injustice. Plan is...
AEON Co., Ltd. is one of Japan’s top retailers. It announced its collaboration with ‘Loop’, a unique consumption cycle produced by TerraCycle Inc., a company based in New Jersey. TerraCycle provides inventive recycling platforms globally, and AEON...
Mitsubishi Research Institute, Inc. (MRI) established ‘Area DX Division’ on January 1 to carry out a test on the promotion of cashless transactions, a business model carried out by Tokyo Metropolis. The experiment is currently active in Otemachi...
Tokyo Organising Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic Games (also known as Tokyo 2020) has shared pictures of the room furnishing that will be used in the athletes’ village plaza this summer. The village plaza consists of 21 lodgings, a total of...
General incorporated association ‘Kodomo Takushoku Ouendan’ (meaning ‘Children’s Home food Supporter’) has announced to cooperate with Kyoto city and social welfare corporation ‘Adachifukushikai’ to start a new support activity called ‘Kyoto...