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To Our Readers
This booklet Abridged and Illustrated for Easy Understanding-Annual Report on the Environment in Japan is a
summary of the Quality of the Environment in Japan 2005 (White Paper), an annual report on the environment issued
by the Government, published on June 17, 2005. The content of this booklet was edited to reach out to a wider
readership with a more readable publication. This booklet offers an overview on the subject of "A Low Carbon Society
-A New Era Shaped by 'People' and 'System"' (in Part One) as well as a digest of environmental conservation
policies and measures implemented by the Government in FY 2004 (in Part Two).
The Quality of the Environment in Japan 2005 was printed by Gyosei Corporation. The Ministry of the Environment
also published the Annual Report on the Environment for Children on November 17, 2005, which is edited for easy
understanding by primary and middle school students. They are also available on the Ministry of the Environment
websites:
Quality of the Environment in Japan (http://www.env.go.jp/policy/hakusyo/)
Annual Report on the Environment for Children (http://www.env.go.jp/policy/hakusyo/kodomo.html)
They are presented in Japanese only.
Back issues of Quality of the Environment in Japan and Abridged and Illustrated for Easy Understanding-Annual
Report on the Environment in Japan are available on the Ministry of the Environment website
(http://www.env.go.jp/en/w-paper/index.html).
Besides the topics covered in this booklet, the Quality of the Environment in Japan 2005 also introduces the
following websites for your reference:
O Toward the Realization of a Virtuous Circle for Environment and Economy in Japan
(http://www.env.go.jp/policy/env_econo/index.html)
O Ecominister (My family's Minister of the Environment)
(http://www.env.go.jp/policy/wagaya/index.html) (in Japanese only)
O EcoFamily Website (http://www.eco-family.jp/) (in Japanese only)
O Global Environment Information Centre (http://www.geic.or.jp/geic/)
The drawing on the front cover is the work of Akane Iwao, a then third-year student at the Oita Prefectural
Hijiyoukoku High School. The drawing won the Minister of the Environment Award (General Category) in the 2005
White Paper on the Environment Cover Page Illustration Contest sponsored by the Ministry of the Environment and
the Japan Environment Association.
Ms. Iwao commented, "I drew with the hope that, by supporting the global environment, we can co-exist with
many other living things on earth in the future."
The drawing on the back cover is the work of Satsuki Suzuki, a then fourth-grade student at the Sendai City
Municipal Yoshinari Primary School in Miyagi Prefecture. It received honorable mention in the same Cover Page
Illustration Contest.Ms. Suzuki commented, "A society kind to the environment is a society that protects the earth, and that means a
society where all living things live together by being nice to and supporting each other. The earth is very small in the
whole universe and human beings are even smaller. But if we work together, we can protect our precious planet-the
Earth."
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