What is it about?
This is a chapter for our book entitled "Corrosion Control and Surface Finishing". After WW2, Japan sought for industrial development and entered a high-growth period with the growth of baby boomers. However, the Japanese focused too much on the development and neglected consideration for environmental protection. As a result, many unfortunate affairs relating to environmental pollution occurred in Japan. Then the Japanese government finally decided to establish the Environmental Basic Act of 1993. Since then, their environmental policy has been going in the right direction based on the viewpoint of protection. In this chapter, we described the history for the development of environmental protection acts in Japan and explain some of the important ones.
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Why is it important?
This chapter will provide you the historical background and development for environmental protection movement and Japanese policies. Without those information, you could not have the concrete view for the current environmental regulations at all. Readers must understand in this chapter what are common for our entire world and what are unique and different in Japan.
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This page is a summary of: Japanese Environmental Regulations, January 2016, Springer Science + Business Media,
DOI: 10.1007/978-4-431-55957-3_11.
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