Highlighting JAPAN

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Using photographs, illustrations, and videos, this online magazine helps people throughout the world know more about Japan from a variety of aspects.

May 2008

eco-technology

ECO-TECHNOLOGY

Blistering economic growth in the 1960s left Japan was with serious environmental and pollution problems. In this edition's special feature we examine some of the eco-technologies and efforts that helped Japan turn over a new leaf and embark down a more environmental path.

G8 SUMMIT VENUE

On April 5 Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda visited Toyako, Hokkaido, the venue of the upcoming G8 Summit, to observe Summit preparations and convene a meeting on global warming policy.

FOREIGN DIPLOMATS

Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda held summit meetings with President Vladimir Putin of Russia, President Lee Myung-Bak of the Republic of Korea, and President Hu Jintao of China.

UNIQUE JAPANESE ZOOS

Asahiyama Zoo has blazed a trail of innovation that has made it into one of the nation's most popular zoos and a leading Hokkaido tourist destination.

HOOKED ON ENKA

Decked out like a hip-hop artist, American Jerome Charles White, Jr is anything but. Meet Jero the rising enka star.

CARBON NANO TUBES

Driven in part by Japanese research, carbon nanotube technology promises to be a major force in materials technology this century.

SPACE ON EARTH

Tokyo-based GOTO Inc. supplies some 40 percent of the planetarium projection systems used today and is bringing the heavens down to earth.

YOKOSO! JAPAN

In January, the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism appointed a number of new Yokoso! Japan Ambassadors.

SHIRETOKO

Jutting out into the southern part of the Sea of Okhotsk, the Shiretoko Peninsula is rife with a wealth of nature.

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