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At 14:46 on March 11, 2011, the largest earthquake ever recorded, with a magnitude of 9.0 on the Richter scale, occurred, and together with the subsequent tsunami, caused extensive damage along the Pacific coast of the Tohoku region in Japan. The human casualties, as reported by the National Police Agency on April 10, 2015, were 15,891 dead and 2...

The 1637 Shimabara-Amakusa Rebellion occurred in the early Edo period of Japan. This was an uprising against harsh regime enforced in the Shimabara domain, including heavy taxation and the violent prohibition of Christianity. The rebels fought against the shogunate forces, but the uprising was suppressed and the rebels executed. The “Minami...

At the end of World War II, the Battle of Okinawa was fought between Allied and Japanese forces on the Okinawa islands. The Battle of Okinawa was a ground war directly involving the people of the prefecture, and 120,000 of the then population of approximately 490,000 were killed. Of these, 94,000 were civilian casualties. After the war, Okinawa was...

Larch forestry has thrived in Atsuma town under a relatively mild climate and clear-cutting operations have been carried out with well-developed forest roads. Besides, a new trend is emerging. It is a trial-and-error process to find diversity in the way people relate to the forest and reflect it in the way they make a living. The horse logging...

Natural resource management in developing countries is often placed in the context of strengthening climate change resilience. However, the resilience concept is highly abstract. This study will analyze how the resilience concept is reflected in policies, measures, and implementation in Ethiopia and Kenya, two countries with arid and semi-arid...

ISAP is an annual forum aiming to promote diverse discussions on sustainable development in Asia and the Pacific, with the participation of front-line experts and stakeholders from governments, international organisations, business and NGOs. The tenth ISAP was organised by IGES celebrating its 20th anniversary, jointly with UNU-IAS. Three years on...

持続可能なアジア太平洋に関する国際フォーラム（ISAP）は、国際的に活躍する専門家や政府、国際機関、企業、NGO 関係者が一堂に会し、持続可能な開発についてアジア太平洋地域の視点から議論を行う国際フォーラムである。今年創立20周年を迎えたIGESと、国連大学サステイナビリティ高等研究所（UNU-IAS）が年 1 回開催しており、今回で10回目のISAPとなった。 2015年の画期的な「パリ協定」と「持続可能な開発のための2030アジェンダ」の採択から3年が経過し、世界、地域、そして国レベルでこれらの合意を実行に移す努力が行われてきた。低炭素社会の先にある脱炭素社会への移行、またSDGsが有する可能性を実現していくには、社会・経済の抜本的な構造改革が不可欠であるが...

Cognisant of the disadvantages of incineration (i.e. high disposal costs, barriers to promoting the 3Rs, overuse of resources and impacts on climate change), Oki Town decided to make a radical change with the installation of a biogas plant equipped with a methane fermentation system in 2006, sparking a transition from a conventional...

Transforming Finance and Investment for the SDGs

The Paris Agreement is now in the process of making specific rules, which are to be adopted as a package at COP24. Like the saying, “God is in the details”, the success of the Paris Agreement will depend on how these operational rules are designed. Nationally determined contributions (NDCs), which are the most significant feature of the Paris...