Health & Chemicals

Chemicals

• Profiles of the Initial Environmental Risk Assessment of Chemicals
• BAT Levels concerning By-Prodcuct HCB
• Japan HPV Challenge Program
• Risk Assessment of Chemical Substances under the Chemical Substances Control Act
• Information Exchange on Chemicals Management among Japan, China and Korea
• Outline of Chemical Substances Control Law (CSCL)[PDF 221KB]
• Results of questionnaire on Japanese companies' response to REACH[PDF 360KB]
• Chemical Substance Fact Sheets
• 05.08.29 Results of the Fourth Initial Environmental Risk Assessment of Chemicals
• Results of aquatic toxicity tests of chemicals conducted by Ministry of the Environment in Japan (-March 2019)[PDF 168KB]
• Results of sediment toxicity tests of chemicals conducted by Ministry of the Environment in Japan (- March 2017)[PDF 21KB]
• 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 since 1996
• SAICM National Implementation Plan of Japan[PDF 757KB]
• Progress in the Implementation of SAICM National Implementation Plan of Japan[PDF 2.3MB]
• ANNEX：ANNEX１[PDF 3.2MB]
• ANNEX２[PDF 4.2MB]
• ANNEX３[PDF 973KB]
• Poster Exhibition on the Fourth session of the International Conference on Chemicals Management[PDF 470KB]

Endocrine Disruptors

• Endocrine Disrupting Effects of Substances
• 10.07.06"MOE's Further Actions on Endocrine Disrupting Effects of Chemical Substances"(Press Release)[PDF 72KB]
• 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 102KB]
• 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 9KB]
• 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 8KB]
• 02.11.29 The 5th International Symposium on Environmental Endocrine Disrupters (Nov 28,2002)
• Results of Preliminary Environmental Risk Assessment of Chemical Substances[PDF 186KB]
• Table 1 : Results of Initial Health Risk Assessment (FY1997 - 2000) [PDF 14KB]
• Table 2 : Results of Initial Ecological Risk Assessment (FY1997 - 2000)[PDF 14KB]
• 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(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

• Information Brochure Dioxins 2012[PDF 341KB]
• 09.10.1-2Report of the 3rd Workshop on Reduction of Unintentional POPs in East Asian Countries[PDF 1.4MB]
• Information Brochure Dioxins 2009[PDF 807KB]
• 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 28KB]
• 03.12.05 Enforcement Status of the Law Concerning Special Measures against Dioxins in FY2002
• Information Brochure Dioxins 2005[PDF 132KB]
• Information Brochure Dioxins 2003[PDF 108KB]
• Dioxin Emission Inventory 2000[PDF 317KB]
• Environmental Survey of Dioxins FY 2000 Results
• State of Enforcement of the Law Concerning Special Measures against Dioxins in FY 2000[PDF 24KB]
• Findings of the Fiscal 2000 Survey on Brominated Dioxins[PDF 374KB]
• Information Brochure Dioxins 2001[PDF 70KB]
• 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 51KB]
• Guidelines on Quality Assurance/Quality Control for The Environmental Measurements of Dioxins[PDF 82KB]
• The State of Dioxin Accumulation in the Human Body, Blood, Wildlife, and Food: Findings of the Fiscal 1998 Survey[PDF 924KB]
• Basic Guidelines of Japan for the Promotion of Measures against Dioxins[PDF 26KB]
• Regarding the Results of the Urgent Simultaneous Nationwide Survey of Dioxins (Conducted in 1998)[PDF 443KB]
• Reducing Dioxin Releases (Leaflet)[PDF 126KB]
• Report on Tolerable Daily Intake (TDI) of Dioxin and Related Compounds[PDF 305KB]
• Information Brochure Dioxins 1999[PDF 114KB]
• Guideline on Securing the Reliability of the Environmental Measurements of Dioxins Commissioned Outside[PDF 31KB]

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 1.2MB]
• 05.06.24 National Implementation Plan for the Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants / Full Text[PDF 2.0MB]

Mercury

• Minamata Convention on Mercury
• Statement by the Minister of the Environment about the Cabinet Decision on the Conclusion of the Minamata Convention on Mercury by Japan
• "Introduction the Minamata Convention on Mercury" For Global Mercury Pollution Prevention Health & Safety

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 10KB]

Laws

Downloadable Documents