Environment

Japanese co eyes emission norms to grow in India

Pune: Japanese manufacturer Horiba expects to increase its business in India because of emerging emissions-related regulations across the country.

Publication Date: 
01/03/2018
Times Of India (New Delhi)
Tags:
Industrial Pollution, India, Japan, Cement Industry, Power Industry, Textile Industry, Iron And Steel Industry, Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB), Regulations, Environment
Natural Disasters

Japan donates N$9.5m for drought, floods

Japan has given a grant of US$800 000 (approximately N$9.5 million) to the government of Namibia to help address the health needs of the most vulnerable citizens in the seven northern regions affec

Publication Date: 
27/02/2018
New Era (Namibia)
Tags:
Natural Disasters, Floods, Droughts, Japan, Namibia, Health, UNICEF, Disaster Management, Africa
Health

Electron spin resonance (ESR) dose measurement in bone of Hiroshima A-bomb victim

Explosion of the bombs in Hiroshima and Nagasaki corresponds to the only historical moment when atomic bombs were used against civilians. This event triggered countless investigations into the effects and dosimetry of ionizing radiation. However, none of the investigations has used the victims’ bones as dosimeter. Here, we assess samples of bones obtained from fatal victims of the explosion by Electron Spin Resonance (ESR). In 1973, one of the authors of the present study (SM) traveled to Japan and conducted a preliminary experiment on the victims’ bone samples.

Publication Date: 
06/02/2018
Angela Kinoshita, Oswaldo Baffa, Sérgio Mascarenhas
PLoS ONE
1-11
Tags:
Radiation, Health Effects, Japan, Research
Natural Disasters

Prestate of stress and fault behavior during the 2016 Kumamoto earthquake (M7.3)

Fault behavior during an earthquake is controlled by the state of stress on the fault. Complex coseismic fault slip on large earthquake faults has recently been observed by dense seismic networks, which complicates strong motion evaluations for potential faults. Here we show the three-dimensional prestress field related to the 2016 Kumamoto earthquake.

Publication Date: 
24/01/2018
Satoshi Matsumoto, Yusuke Yamashita, Manami Nakamoto & et al
Geophysical Research Letters
1-9
Tags:
Earthquakes, Japan, Geology, Natural Disasters
Air Pollution

Delhi, Japan ink deal to fight pollution

NEW DELHI: The Fukuoka prefectural government, one of the provincial governments of Japan, will help the capital fight air pollution.

Publication Date: 
17/01/2018
Times Of India (New Delhi)
Tags:
Delhi, Japan, Air Pollution, Tourism, Air Pollution Control, Environment
Wildlife

Ivory towers: an assessment of Japan’s ivory trade and domestic market

Japan remains one of the world’s largest domestic ivory markets, and is home to an active, though shrinking, ivory manufacturing industry. The country also boasts significant stockpiles of raw tusks in private ownership—a cultural legacy from its past trade.

Publication Date: 
20/12/2017
Tomomi Kitade, Ryoko Nishino
TRAFFIC
Tags:
Wildlife Trade, Illegal Trade, Poaching, Elephant, Japan
Wildlife

Japan’s inaction on illegal ivory exports threatens Chinese ban, report says

Japan’s failure to prevent illegal ivory exports could undermine China’s forthcoming ban on its domestic ivory trade, conservation groups have warned.

Publication Date: 
20/12/2017
Guardian (UK)
Tags:
Wildlife, Poaching, Japan, China, Illegal Trade, Elephant, Africa
Climate Change

Soon, a global climate observatory

PARIS: The heads of several of the world's space agencies have proposed the creation of a climate observatory to pool acquired data and share it with scientists around the globe, according to a dec

Publication Date: 
14/12/2017
Times Of India (New Delhi)
Tags:
Climate Change, Scientists, Global, Climate Adaptation, China, Japan
Natural Disasters

Typhoon Lan leaves flooding, four dead in Japan before moving out to sea

A rapidly weakening typhoon Lan made landfall in Japan on Monday, setting off landslides and flooding that prompted evacuation orders for tens of thousands of people, but then headed out to sea aft

Publication Date: 
23/10/2017
Thompson Reuters Foundation (TRUST)
Tags:
Natural Disasters, Typhoons, Floods, Japan
Natural Disasters

Asia-Pacific faces more damaging disaster threat, UN warns

Natural disasters could become more destructive in Asia-Pacific, where a person is already five times more likely to be affected than in other regions, the United Nations warned on Tuesday, urging

Publication Date: 
10/10/2017
Thompson Reuters Foundation (TRUST)
Tags:
Natural Disasters, Asia, Floods, Storms, Extreme Weather Events, Poverty, Droughts, Heat Waves, Japan, China

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