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Japan Is Testing Environmental Due Diligence Inside Two Real Value Chains
Japan’s environment ministry has selected Oji Holdings and Mitsubishi Estate Residence for supported environmental due-diligence pilots that move from risk identification toward internal decisions, remedies and disclosure across value chains.
Read analysisJapan Is Building a Local Carbon Chain Around a Waste Plant
Japan's Environment Ministry has selected a Koriyama demonstration that links carbon capture at a municipal waste facility with regional conversion and use, testing whether public infrastructure can anchor a local carbon-utilisation chain.
Read analysisJapan Is Moving Nature Finance From Disclosure Toward Investment Decisions
Japan's environment ministry has issued voluntary nature-finance guidelines and opened a model program for financial institutions.
Read analysisJapan Is Asking Which Infrastructure Still Needs to Exist
Japan’s infrastructure-management consultation moves beyond maintenance technique to a harder question: how shrinking municipalities should reorganize assets and services they can no longer manage one by one.
Read analysisJapan Is Testing Four Routes to Lower-Carbon Data Centers
Japan's Environment Ministry has selected four data-center demonstrations covering waste-heat recovery, renewable cooling, workload optimization and direct-current protection.
Read analysisJapan Is Asking When Repowering Is Still the Same Project
Japan has opened consultation on rules for a streamlined environmental-assessment document for replacement infrastructure. The proposal relies on evidence from existing operations when a new facility remains sufficiently similar in type, location and scale.
Read analysisTokyo Waterworks Is Turning Internal Control Into an Annual Operating Cycle
Tokyo Waterworks has placed its fiscal 2026 internal-control implementation plan alongside its fiscal 2025 evaluation report.
Read analysisTokyo Gives Water Operations and Asset Renewal Different Clocks
Tokyo Waterworks Management Plan 2026 sets priorities for fiscal years 2026 through 2028, while the related facilities master plan governs renewal and resilience through 2035.
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