From 2024 to 2025, a rice shortage will occur and rice prices will soar nationwide, causing the so-called "2024 rice riots" [...].
Keio Electric Railway won the Grand Prix (Minister of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries [...]) in the forest development category of the Forest x ACT Challenge 2025 organized by the Forestry Agency.
*Previously, three forest philosophies were formed under the influence of regional characteristics in Germany Read "Forestry: German Forests and Japanese Forestry" by Yukikazu Murao (in Japanese) [...
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Every day we live under a variety of laws and regulations. At first glance, these rules restrict our behavior and present us with new challenges [...].
As noted in my column of May 9, the prewar period forests were in a very different situation from that of today. According to the "Accumulated Statistics on Forest Area since Meiji Era (Forest [...]".
Japan has abundant forest resources, but forest management [...] such as the problem of neglected Satoyama forests (*1) and the decrease in the number of forestry workers (*2).
TENOHA TATESH, a forest material laboratory, is a hands-on facility utilizing plants native to Tateshina, Nagano Prefecture, at an altitude of 1,300 meters [...].
The Noto region of Ishikawa Prefecture experienced unprecedented combined disasters in the history of the prefecture: the Noto Peninsula earthquake on New Year's Day, 2024, and the Okunoto torrential rains in September. The disaster area [...].
Shelter and Toda Corporation have developed COO [...], a hybrid wood fire-resistant component that uses reinforced gypsum board and wood as fire-resistant covering material for steel pipe columns.
Can trees change the shape of cities? As a general construction company, we are seriously tackling such a question from the standpoint of [...].
The University of Tokyo's Global Commons Center (CGC) recently launched the CGC-NBS Sponsorship Project, an industry-academia [...]
Have you ever felt uncomfortable with the use of fossil fuels as a matter of course? Nowadays, electricity and heat energy are generated by coal and [...].
The "Nature Planner Foundation" fosters and supports "nature planners," entrepreneurial human resources who create new value together with nature [...].
Watahan Kenzai Corporation, a general wood construction materials manufacturer, acquired approximately 1,500 hectares of forestland in Sendai, Iida City, Nagano Prefecture, from the Noike Airin Agricultural Cooperative Association in August [...].
*Part 1 is hereThe challenges faced by the "Hozoku" forestry philosophy, which was born in 18th century Germany, a country where forests were overgrown, are described in Yukikazu Murao's "Forestry: German Forest [...]
A plan to convert an existing coal-fired power plant to a wood biomass power plant at the Nihonkaisui Sanuki Plant (Sakaide City, Kagawa Prefecture) has been approved by the [...]