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Connection between social common capital (Hirofumi Uzawa) and forests as a device for a prosperous economic life.

8.14Thu 2025

New EU Regulation "EUDR" is about to be put into operation to achieve zero deforestation.

Deforestation and degradation of the world's forests have become a serious problem (*1). In response to this situation, the international community is developing new regulations [...].

8.12Tue 2025

Why Japan Needs a "Circular Forest Economy" Now: Resource Self-Sufficiency, Lifelong Growth, and a Resident-Financed Platinum Society

As Chairman of the Platinum Initiative Network and former President of the University of Tokyo, I have long been thinking about the future of Japan. Now, the world [...].

7.30Wed 2025

Hints for Linking Tokyo 23 Wards Residents with Forests are Nature Experiences on Walks and Trips, Conditions for Expanding Use Indicated by Survey of 5,000 Residents

How do urban dwellers interact with forests? The Forestry and Forest Products Research Institute of the National Forestry Research and Development Institute [...].

7.26Sat 2025

Mizuho Lease and Green ELM to Verify Multifaceted Value Creation in Chiba, Japan, Toward "Forest Development x Finance" Utilizing Natural Forests as Natural Capital

Mizuho Lease and Green ELM have announced the launch of "Natu [...]," a solution that links companies with the multifaceted value provided by natural forests in the form of natural circulation.

7.25Fri 2025

Forest Circular Economy, edited by Hiroshi Komiyama, is a vision for the year 2050: Rebuilding Japan as a resource-rich nation will start with its forests.

The national challenges facing Japan today - carbon neutrality by 2050, regional sustainability, and resource self-sufficiency. These [...]...

7.15Tue 2025

World's First Joint Project to Demonstrate Natural Capital Accounting Launched Mitsui, Nippon Paper Industries, Oji HD, and Sumitomo Forestry from Japan

How to "visualize" the value of forests through accounting? The forestry sector is collaborating internationally to incorporate natural capital into business management.

7.12Sat 2025

Forestry and Forest Products Research Institute (FFPRI) Reduces Soil Greenhouse Gas Measurement Time to 1/7 Innovative Technology Contributes to Climate Change Research and Advanced Forest Management

The Forestry and Forest Products Research Institute of the National Forestry Research and Development Institute (NFRI) is a research institute that conducts research on carbon dioxide (CO2) emitted from forest soils and its absorption by me [...].

7.11Fri 2025

Natto (fermented soybeans) made from Japanese cypress powder is born. A recycling model that connects forests, people, and soil.

Flavor, which operates wooden bathhouses and other facilities, offers "En-natural Hinoki Natto," fermented only with natural natto bacteria living in natural solid cypress, at 7 [...].

5.14Wed 2025

Rediscovering the Value of Forests through Funeral Cycles x Animal Welfare: "WITH PET WEEKEND" to be Held at Mt.

Amidst growing interest in the cyclical use of forest resources and the creation of a society in harmony with nature, at FOREST, which oversees the "Circular Funeral (R)" program, is a 5 [...].

4.25Fri 2025

A card game to "think about the future of forests while playing" Attention as a new type of forest and tree education tool

moritomirai," a card game jointly developed by Yamanashi Nichinichi Shimbun and Project Design, is the new [...].

4.13Sun 2025

Art event "Light up the submerged forest" at Shirakawa Lake, turning the white willow forest that decorates the surface of the lake into a tourist resource.

Forestry workers in Iide Town, Yamagata Prefecture, will hold an art event, "Lighting Up the Submerged Forest of Lake Shirakawa," from April 19. With the spring thaw [...].

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