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6.12Thu 2025

Businesses and Society undergo a major transformation with biomass resources at the core. Potential to expand into fuels and products.

The most important aspect of carbon neutrality is the attempt to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. The most important of these is the forest circular economy, which is a major [...].

6.12Thu 2025

MHI Invests in iPEACE223, Developing Technology to Produce Clean Fuels Using Bioethanol New Option for Fossil Fuel Phase-Out

Mitsubishi Heavy Industries has announced that iPEACE [...], a startup with technology to produce clean fuels and chemical feedstocks from bioethanol.

6.11Wed 2025

Cultivating the Future through Carbon Cultivation] What is the idea of "making" to save the earth?

Greenhouse gases cause global warming. How to reduce carbon dioxide (CO2), the largest of these gases, is the biggest challenge for mankind today [...].

6.10Tue 2025

Integrated Support for Reforestation and Management at No Cost to Forest Owners Establishment of a New Corporation, "Niigata Mountain Baton," to Restore Abandoned Forests

In Murakami City, Niigata Prefecture, where an increasing number of artificial cedar forests have reached the end of their harvesting season and are being left unplanted, forest owners can take advantage of a new project that will reduce the amount of logging and [...]...

6.6Fri 2025

Let's strive to achieve carbon neutrality in 2050 through a new forest culture and technological innovation!

We have 25 years to go until we achieve our promised carbon neutrality by 2050! We cannot achieve this goal by curbing CO2 emissions alone [...].

6.5Thu 2025

Non-housing Wooden Construction Fair 2025] Focus on the latest technology to achieve larger scale and higher rise, and corporate strategies to drive market expansion.

The "Nonresidential Wood Construction Fair 2025," which brings together the latest technologies and solutions for "wood and wood construction" in nonresidential buildings, will be held on June [...]...

6.4Wed 2025

The 19th Century Achievement of "Nurtured Forestry" in Human History: Reading "How the Japanese Have Created Forests" by Conrad Tatman (Part 2)

*Click here for the first part, which reveals the two crises Japan has faced due to over-cutting of forests Conrad Tatman, "How the Japanese [...]...

6.4Wed 2025

Sumitomo Forestry Company Housing, a six-story mixed wood-frame structure, is completed as a new model for medium- and large-scale housing complexes.

Sumitomo Forestry Co., Ltd. has completed a six-story mixed wooden company housing complex in Tsukuba City, Ibaraki Prefecture, and began using it on June 1. With a total of 46 units, this company [...].

6.4Wed 2025

Biodiversity Becomes a New Evaluation Axis for Forestry Management: FY2024 White Paper on Forestry and Forest Products

The 2024 White Paper on Forests and Forestry was approved by the Cabinet and released by the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries on June 3, 2024. In this year's White Paper, for the first time, the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry, and Fisheries has published the "White Paper on Forestry and Forestry for FY2024.

6.3Tue 2025

The Key to Realization of "Profitable Forestry" is Large-Scale Production and Whole-Format Purchase: A Comprehensive Review of Forest Circular Economy (4)

Japan's forest resource potential is great, but the current state of the forestry industry, which is the upstream of the supply chain, is difficult. The labor force in the forestry and lumber industry is [...].

6.3Tue 2025

LDP's "Package of Intensive Measures" to Achieve a Circular Economy Using Forest Resources

The Liberal Democratic Party of Japan (LDP) released its "Proposal for the Realization of a Circular Economy Based on Forest Resources" on June 2, 2012, which, along with the implementation of the revised Forest Management Control Law, [...]...

6.2Mon 2025

Three Areas for Building the Future / The "Circulation Cycle" of Cutting Down Trees, Utilizing Them, and Fixing Them in Cities: A Recycling Society Supported by Japan's Forests (4)

Cutting down trees to protect forests - that's what we do. When you hear that, it may seem intuitively contradictory. But look ahead [...].

5.31Sat 2025

Forest Conservation Activities Started at Watami Forest in Rikuzentakata City

On May 28, Watami, a major restaurant company, held a forest opening ceremony and forest preservation activities at "Watami Forest" established in a city-owned forest in Rikuzentakata City. [...].

5.31Sat 2025

Streamlining J-credit patrols with LivMap, a smartphone map application Sharing forest information in real time

LivMap, a shared map developed by Hanposaki, a geographic information management and sharing service provider, has been released as an environmental value [...].

5.31Sat 2025

Riopake, a construction technology that repaints existing paint without peeling it off.

R.C.CORE, which develops the BESS brand of log houses, has announced that it has developed a new paint removal system that eliminates the need to remove existing paint when repainting wooden structures [...].

5.29Thu 2025

Assist Suit Reduces Back Burden by 35%, Contributing to Improved Working Conditions in Forestry Workplaces

Innofis, a manufacturer and seller of assistive suits, has developed the "Muscle Suit Soft-Power (R)," which reduces the burden on the user's lower back [...].

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