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November 13, 2025
Police to Use Rifles to Cull Bears: Japan’s New “Human vs. Beast” Strategy

Japan now stands at a critical crossroads in its relationship with wild animals. In 2025, the number of people injured or killed by bears has reached an all-time high since statistics began, an unprecedented and abnormal situation.

By Honourway Asia Pacific Limited

November 5, 2025
The Worst Bear Encounters in History: Japan at a Crossroads of “Coexistence”

On November 4, 2025, Japan’s Ministry of the Environment announced that the number of bear sightings nationwide in the first half of the fiscal year (April–September) had reached 20,792 cases (preliminary figure).

By Honourway Asia Pacific Limited
October 30, 2025
The Worst Autumn on Record: When Japan’s Bears Invade Human Settlements

In the autumn of 2025, Japan was gripped by an unprecedented sense of fear. Human injuries caused by wild bears surged at the fastest rate since records began, shocking Japanese society.

By Honourway Asia Pacific Limited
October 30, 2025
Putting an End to Runaway Solar Power? Japan’s New Regulations

On October 30, 2025, Japan’s energy policy reached a major turning point. Leading national dailies reported in unison that the government had decided to push through legal amendments to rein in the rampant development of large-scale solar power plants (“mega-solar”).

By Honourway Asia Pacific Limited

April 20, 2025
Sacred Fuji Faces a New Trial: Confronting Overtourism

Mount Fuji is not merely Japan’s highest mountain. Revered since ancient times and a wellspring of artistic inspiration, it was inscribed on UNESCO’s World Cultural Heritage list in 2013 as “Fujisan, sacred place and source of artistic inspiration.” Drawn by its universal value and easy access from the Tokyo metropolitan area, visitors from Japan and abroad have flocked there in great numbers.

By Honourway Asia Pacific Limited
October 26, 2023
Trucks Running on Ramen: How Fukuoka Invented Pork Bone Broth Biodiesel Fuel

“There’s a company in Kyushu that makes diesel oil from tonkotsu ramen broth and runs trucks with it.”

By Kenrei Takeuchi
April 18, 2023
Japan Works on Treaty towards Ending Plastic Pollution

“I grew up with the sea, and poverty for me was sumptuous; then I lost the sea and found all luxuries grey and poverty unbearable.”

By Takeshi Akahori
May 13, 2022
The Trend in Plastic Free: “Bag Charge” Is Just the Beginning

More than a year has passed since the introduction of mandatory surcharge for plastic shopping bags on July 1, 2020.

By Ryoko Seguchi
October 12, 2021
The Great Transformation with Decarbonization

China‘s Formidable Ambition to Become an Environmental Powerhouse at Breakneck Speed

By Kazuaki Sato

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