News Headline
- Result of the Medical Judgment Concerning Acknowledgment of Designated Diseases under the Act on Asbestos Health Damage Relief.(December 13th 2012) [12.12.17up]
- Result of the Medical Judgment Concerning Acknowledgment of Designated Diseases under the Act on Asbestos Health Damage Relief. (November 16th, 2012) [12.11.20up]
- Result of the Medical Judgment Concerning Acknowledgment of Designated Diseases under the Act of the Asbestos Health Damage Relief (October 23rd 2012) [12.10.25up]
Issues
Chemicals
- Profiles of the Initial Environmental Risk Assessment of Chemicals
- BAT Levels concerning By-Prodcuct HCB
- Japan HPV Challenge Program
- Information Exchange on Chemicals Management among Japan, China and Korea
- Outline of Chemical Substances Control Law (CSCL) [PDF 51KB]
- Results of questionnaire on Japanese companies' response to REACH [PDF 349KB]
- Chemical Substance Fact Sheets
- 05.08.29 Results of the Fourth Initial Environmental Risk Assessment of Chemicals
- Results of Eco-toxicity tests of chemicals conducted by Ministry of the Environment in Japan (-2010) [PDF 131KB]
- 05.03.28 Partial Amendment to the Cabinet Order of the Chemical Substances Control Law
- 04.07.27 Results of Preliminary Assessment (the 3rd Survey) of Environmental Risks of Chemical Substances
- 04.03.30 Manual for Mercury Analysis
- Standard Guidelines for the Environmental Monitoring of Chemicals (Contents)
- "Chemicals in the Environment" Reports on Environmental Survey and Wildlife Monitoring of Chemicals 1996 - 2004
Endocrine Disruptors
- Endocrine Disrupting Effects of Substances
- Further Actions to Endocrine Disrupting Effects of Chemical Substances-EXTEND 2010- (Tentative Translation) (July 2010) [PDF 636KB]
- 10.07.06"MOE's Further Actions on Endocrine Disrupting Effects of Chemical Substances"(Press Release) [PDF 74KB]
- MOE's Perspectives on Endocrine Disrupting Effects of Substances-ExTEND 2005- (March 2005)
- FULL TEXT [PDF 371KB]
- 1/2 [PDF 226KB] 2/2 [PDF 167KB] - 05.03.14 Perspectives on Endocrine Disrupting Effects of Substances- ExTEND 2005-
- Summary of Public Opinions and MOE's Views on "MOE's Perspectives on Endocrine Disrupting Effects of Substances (draft)" [PDF 103KB]
- 04.12.20 7th International Symposium on Environmental Endocrine Disruptors
- 03.12.05 The 6th International Symposium on Environmental Endocrine Disrupters
- 7th International Symposium on Environmental Endocrine Disrupters [PDF 12KB]
- 03.09.12 International Symposium on Environmental Endocrine Disrupters 2003
- 03.03.03 6th International Symposium on Environmental Endocrine Disrupters
- 03.11.27 Introducing "The 6th International Symposium on Environmental Endocrine Disrupters 2003" (4th notification) [PDF 12KB]
- 02.11.29 The 5th International Symposium on Environmental Endocrine Disrupters (Nov 28,2002)
- Results of Preliminary Environmental Risk Assessment of Chemical Substances [PDF 213KB]
Table 1 : Results of Initial Health Risk Assessment (FY1997 - 2000) [PDF 14KB]
Table 2 : Results of Initial Ecological Risk Assessment (FY1997 - 2000) [PDF 15KB] - Link : Millennium Project (Prime Minister of Japan's Cabinet)
- Strategic Programs on Environmental Endocrine Disruptors '98 (SPEED '98)?
- Result of the 1998 Simultaneous Environmental Monitoring Survey Throughout the Country
- Environmental Endocrine Disrupters
- The 3rd International Medaka Symposium, 2003 [Program and Abstracts]
- MEDAKA Development of Test Methods and Suitability of Medaka as Test Organism for Detection of Endocrine Disrupting Chemicals
- APPROACH TO CHEMICALS SUSPECTED OF HAVING ENDOCRINE DISRUPTING EFFECTS
- Brochure Depicting Achievement of SPEED'98 [PDF 36KB]
(SPEED'98 : Strategic Programs on Environmental Endocrine Disruptors '98) - Global Assessment of the State-of-the-Science of Endocrine Disruptors (Japanese version translated by MOE)
- Materials for the Commission on Endocrine Disruptors held under the framework of SPEED'98
- International Symposium on Endocrine Disruption
- Official ED (Endocrine Disruption) Website
- Reports of Researches on Effects of Endocrine Disruptors
- Link : Endocrine Disrupting Chemicals Database (NIES)
- Link : UK-Japan Joint Research
- Link : Global Assessment of the State-of-the-Science of Endocrine Disruptors
Dioxins
- 09.10.1-2Report of the 3rd Workshop on Reduction of Unintentional POPs in East Asian Countries[PDF 1344KB]
- Information Brochure Dioxins 2009[PDF 736KB]
- 05.11.25 Dioxin Emission Inventory 2004
- 05.11.25 FY2004 Enforcement Status of the Law Concerning Special Measures against Dioxins
- 05.08.11 Dioxin Concentration of Exhaust Gas emitted from Waste Incinerators
- 05.08.09 Cabinet Ordinance Partially Amending the Enforcement Ordinance of the Law Concerning Special Measures against Dioxins
- 05.06.20 Plan to Reduce Dioxins Levels Resulting from Business Activities Modified
- 04.12.27 Ministerial Ordinance Partially Amending the Enforcement Regulations of the Law Concerning Special Measures against Dioxins
- 04.09.27 Dioxin Emission Inventory 1997-2003
- 03.12.11 Cabinet Ordinance Partially Amending the Enforcement Ordinance of the Law Concerning Special Measures against Dioxins
- Government Plan to Reduce Dioxin Levels Resulting from Business Activities in Japan [PDF 31KB]
- 03.12.05 Enforcement Status of the Law Concerning Special Measures against Dioxins in FY2002
- 04.12.08 Dioxin Emission Inventory 1997-2002
- Information Brochure Dioxins 2005 [PDF 135KB]
- Information Brochure Dioxins 2003 [PDF 112KB]
- Dioxin Emission Inventory 2000 [PDF 371KB]
- Environmental Survey of Dioxins FY 2000 Results
- State of Enforcement of the Law Concerning Special Measures against Dioxins in FY 2000 [PDF 25KB]
- Findings of the Fiscal 2000 Survey on Brominated Dioxins [PDF 379KB]
- Manual on Determination of Dioxins in Ambient Air [PDF 657KB]
- Information Brochure Dioxins 2001 [PDF 73KB]
- Detailed Study of Dioxin Exposure: Findings of the Fiscal 1999 Survey
- Survey on the State of Dioxin Accumulation in Wildlife: Findings for the Fiscal 1999 Survey [PDF 53KB]
- Guidelines on Quality Assurance/Quality Control for The Environmental Measurements of Dioxins [PDF 85KB]
- The State of Dioxin Accumulation in the Human Body, Blood, Wildlife, and Food: Findings of the Fiscal 1998 Survey [PDF 929KB]
- Basic Guidelines of Japan for the Promotion of Measures against Dioxins [PDF 27KB]
- Regarding the Results of the Urgent Simultaneous Nationwide Survey of Dioxins (Conducted in 1998) [PDF 448KB]
- Reducing Dioxin Releases (Leaflet) [PDF 127KB]
- Report on Tolerable Daily Intake (TDI) of Dioxin and Related Compounds [PDF 307KB]
- Information Brochure Dioxins 1999 [PDF 117KB]
- Guideline on Securing the Reliability of the Environmental Measurements of Dioxins Commissioned Outside [PDF 33KB]
PRTR
- PRTR information plaza Japan
- 05.08.29 Publication of Case Report on Activities for Release Reduction of Chemical Substances Subjected to the PRTR
- 04.03.29 PRTR Data for FY 2002 Published
- Report on the Evaluation of PRTR Pilot Project in Japan (1998)
PCBs
- 05.01.21 State of PCB Waste in Storage under the PCB Special Measures Law
- 03.10.24 State of PCB Waste in Storage under the PCB Special Measures Law
POPs
- Overview of Activities Related to POPs
- Environmental Monitoring of Persistent Organic Pollutants in East Asian Countries
- Environmental Monitoring Report on Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPs) in Japan 2002-2004 [PDF 1.21MB]
- 05.06.24 National Implementation Plan for the Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants / Full Text [PDF 1.92MB]
Mercury
Health & Safety
- 05.08.04 FY 2003 Annual Report of Environmental Health Surveillance for Air Pollution
- Japan Environment and Children's Study (JECS)
- Children's Environmental Health
- Pollution Disputes Settlement System
- Outline of Health Damage Prevention Projects
- Minamata Disease
Asbestos
- 06.01.20 Cabinet Decision on a Bill on Asbestos Health Damage Relief
- The view of the collection of contribution from the business operators for appropriation to the expense required for the payment of the relief benefit (Outline) [PDF 14KB]