Full Coverage: Japan

05.07.2008 G8 leaders meeting in Japan from July 7-9 to tackle issues such as rising oil prices and global warming are being urged to dump the World Bank's highly controversial 'climate investment funds'.

02.07.2008 Controls have been increased at Tokyo's main airport in an attempt to keep "trouble-makers" away from the forthcoming G8 Summit of industrialised countries, says a press service for the "independent radical left movement" that opposes the G8 countries.

28.05.2008 Japan has a chance to lead the rich G8 nations this year in finally delivering real benefits to poor African countries – provided it honours its own aid and climate promises at an important Japan-African Summit in Yokohama this week, says an international development group.

11.03.2008 President Bush rallied rich nations last week to join the the U.K., Japan, and the United States in committing billions of dollars for developing countries to expand their renewable energy capacity.

25.02.2008 Japanese telecom leader NTT DoCoMo unveiled an innovative Bluetooth handset, the “Sound Leaf Plus” at the recent Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. The light-weight mobile works when pressed against the bone below the ear and has a high frequency switch for improved sound articulation.

23.01.2008 Greenpeace activists temporarily blocked the Japanese whaling fleet's factory ship from illegally refuelling in Antarctic waters yesterday - the latest skirmish in a two-week battle.

21.12.2007 The Japanese government has confirmed that that it has abandoned plans to kill humpback whales in the Southern Ocean this season.

18.12.2007 Eight years ago the world's wealthiest countries promised to provide the funding needed to ensure that all children worldwide can attend school. But now, halfway to the global 2015 deadline for universal primary education, developed countries are failing to come up with the aid.

11.12.2007 The 10th anniversary of the Kyoto Protocol today – which requires industrialised countries to reduce their greenhouse gas emissions by at least five per cent from the 1990 level – was marked by a warning that the treaty is under threat at the UN climate change negotiations in Bali, Indonesia.

07.12.2007 China was named Good Guy at the UN climate change negotiations in Bali on Friday, Malaysia was condemned to join Saudi Arabia, Japan and Canada in the Bad Guys group and Australia and India were told to make up their mind which category they wanted to be in.

05.12.2007 Saudi Arabia was given the Fossil of the Day Award by NGOs at the climate change conference in Bali, Indonesia, on Wednesday.

19.11.2007 It's anchors aweigh as the Japanese whaling fleet sets off to kill more than 1,000 whales in its biggest hunt since a moratorium came into effect over 20 years ago. And Greenpeace is alongside, by boat and blog.

22.10.2007 Japanese bloggers are discussing the state of welfare in their country after the well documented death of a man due to starvation revealed cracks in the system.

06.09.2007 Three inmates on Japan's death row were recently executed by hanging, bringing the total number of executions administered under former Justice Minister Nagase Jinen to ten -- in less than a year. Judging from the blogosphere's reaction, Japanese opinion seems to run the gamut on capital punishment.

15.08.2007 This year’s sixth anniversary celebration of the Tokyo Pride Parade exemplifies the slow but steady growth of awareness and acceptance regarding gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender issues in Japan. Japanese bloggers and participants share their thoughts and reactions.

12.08.2007 Japan was once the largest borrower from the World Bank, the institution's president, Robert B. Zoellick, said during a visit to the country in which he noted a six-year decline in Tokyo’s aid budget.

07.08.2007 The anniversaries of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki are reminders of the continued peril that humanity faces - a peril far too serious to be left only in the hands of government leaders, says David Krieger.

23.07.2007 "History is full of seemingly impossible goals which became achievable because people made their voices heard," says peace activist Steven Crandell.

19.07.2007 Nuclear power is never safe, but it can be made less safe through a combination of lies, cover-ups and geological fault lines: a look at the damage caused by an earthquake to the world's largest nuclear plant - and the revelations that have been coming out since about spills and leaks at the facility.

17.07.2007 UNITED NATIONS, Jul 17 (OneWorld) - The huge fire and radioactive leak at a nuclear site in Japan caused by Monday's earthquake have prompted new calls for restraints on the use of nuclear technology.