Seek Sustainable Japan – Details, episodes & analysis

Welcome to a new year of Seek-Sustainable-Japan - here are some dreams and thoughts as we start the year as best we can- hope it's a good one for all of us!

Feel free to drop comments or questions to me somewhere & I will give you a shoutout in the next episode!

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Our top picks of Sustainable Japan for 2025 - enjoy!

Did we miss your faves? Please let us know and we will give you a shoutout in the next episode!

LINKS: #seeksustainablejapan on YouTube #inboundambassador on IG & FB #jjwalsh on BlueSky

This month sustainability focused, Japan based consultants, educators and entrepreneurs Tove Kinooka and JJWalsh discuss Sustainable Japan Day event and awards featured by the Japan Times  ⁨@thejapantimes⁩  - One Young World - Sustainability in the Himalaya mountains with Carole Fuchs - Tech for Impact event in Tokyo October - Global Perspectives workshops and INTRApreneurship training programs - Digital Collage September event ICHIGO BLOOM - Responsible Finance and Investing with Morisawa Michiyo - Wooden Barrels Craft Award Yamaroku Shoyu Shodoshima - Made-in-Japan apparel - Sustainable Forestry in Wakayama - Zero-Carbon baseball stadium HANSHIN Tigers - GLIN impact capital investments in startups with social and environmental impact - Outrage & Optimism podcast  ⁨@OutrageandOptimism⁩  - HGPI Health and Environment intersection - Yamaroku Soy Sauce - Yamagata rural revival ..

LINKS

- Sustainable Japan day event 2025 on September 18 https://sustainable.japantimes.com/sjd-2025

- UNICHARM circularity in diaper business for babies and elderly - recycled pulp & recycle used https://www.unicharm.co.jp/en/csr-eco/education.html

- One Young World https://www.oneyoungworld.com/  ⁨@OneYoungWorld⁩ 

- Global Perspectives workshops & Intra-preneurship training https://www.globalperspectives.biz/intrapreneurship

- Tech 4 Impact Summit https://tech4impactsummit.com/

- Digital Collage event in Sept 2025 Ichigo Bloom Tokyo https://ichigobloom.jp/digital-collage-explore-the-hidden-footprint-of-our-digital-lives-tokyo-21-september-2025/

- Morisawa Michiyo feature about Responsible Investing https://sustainable.japantimes.com/unraveling/25

- Yamaroku Shoyu SHODOSHIMA island https://yama-roku.net/en

- Factelier made-in-japan clothing apparel https://factelier.com/aboutus/

- WAKAYAMA sustainable forestry https://nakagawa-forestry.com/about

- Hanshin Tigers Zero Carbon Baseball Stadium https://zerocarbon-bp.hanshin.co.jp/park/map.html

- GLIN social and environmental impact funding, startups and investing https://glinimpact.com/en/insight/insight-investment20231017

- Japan Health and Environmental policy intersection advising and diplomacy https://hgpi.org/en/

- Netchu Rural Revitalization in Yamagata - reusing abandoned schools to...

UK actor and playwright Michael Mears joins Seek Sustainable Japan to

share insights about his latest play called THE MISTAKE - a two person

performance telling stories connected to the nuclear bombings of

Hiroshima 80 years ago.

https://michaelmears.org/

Arcola theatre about THE MISTAKE: A powerful reflection on the decisions

that changed the course of history and the human cost that followed.

In the 80th anniversary year of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombings,

this is urgent, unforgettable theatre.

https://www.arcolatheatre.com/whats-on/themistake2025/

Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W6_szLiCp5s

An important play about nuclear weapons and the nuclear bombing of

Hiroshima.

play description:

"Shigeko Nomura is a young woman living in war-time Hiroshima.

Leo Szilard is a Hungarian scientist and ‘father of the atomic bomb’.

Paul Tibbets is the American pilot chosen to fly the plane that drops

the bomb.

At 8.15am on a Monday morning in August, their lives become fatally and

forever entangled."

https://michaelmears.org/the-mistake-a-new-play-about-the-day-the-world-changed-forever/

Michel Mears will be performing a bilingual version of THE MISTAKE in

Tokyo, Hiroshima and Tottori in September this year.

Contribute to their crowdfunding campaign.

https://www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/taking-my-play-the-mistake-to-japan-in-september

• Welcome
• Vegan-Friendly London
• Vegan LUNA Burger
• Hiroshima Nagasaki 80th
• Noto Recovery Trip BCCJ
• Wajima Lacquerware Recovery
• Alex Kerr talks Wajima in Hidden Japan book
• Benton Homestead Rural Entrepreneurs
• Write Public Response about Manager Visa Changes
• GTN Working with Foreign Residents as positive opportunity not risk
• Circular System Tokyo includes Worm Composting
• Fukuoka Clean Energy & Drinking Water Project
• Michael Mears actor playwright THE MISTAKE

LINKS

Talking with Michael Mears about THE MISTAKE play on Hiroshima Nuclear Weapons

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4d2jaraQyuY

LUNA Vegan Burger in HASE Kamakura area outside Tokyo #veganfood #japan https://maps.app.goo.gl/BM8ZRHaTN57oy1R78

No More Hiroshima Nagasaki 80th Commemorations  @medium  #peace #travel

https://medium.com/@jjwalsh/no-more-hiroshima-nagasaki-80th-8d4c808638b7

Staying in NOTO after the quake talking with Bernd & Mitsue

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bVIFqBe-0f4

Alex Kerr book Hidden Japan mentions Noto peninsula and Wajima

https://www.youtube.com/live/plqAlGpCCvU?si=UWw12L1xdpuKLKmx

Benton Homestead  @bentonhomestead 

https://bentonhomesteadjapan.myshopify.com/

Please write in about the sudden changes to the Business Manager Visa

system- we don't want to lose businesses doing good like Benton

Homestead:

https://public-comment.e-gov.go.jp/pcm/detail?CLASSNAME=PCMMSTDETAIL&Mode=0&id=315000115

 @theGuardian 

Fukuoka OSMOTIC Clean Energy and Drinking Water Project featured by

the Guardian

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/aug/25/japan-osmotic-power-plant-fukuoka?fbclid=IwY2xjawMaiu5leHRuA2FlbQIxMABicmlkETEwYWVwQjBzTk1KbFBrcnVrAR4NOapoCche5jHIsRTLksPSU699Acv72IxtqSpuTL0HCncHqOUM-Yvq19ooYA_aem_yaIjHbOaqJ0jl34TyKdZDA

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Sustainably focused consultants JJWalsh & Tove Kinooka monthly

30-min Short Takes Chat about sustainable strategy, news, events and

innovation in Japan and beyond.

#sustainablejapan #seeksustainablejapan #shorttakes #japan #sustainability

Grateful this year to have had the rare opportunity to attend both the Hiroshima 80th and Nagasaki 80th commemoration events this year - may these two cities be the last places on earth to experience such horror, suffering and devastation from a nuclear weapon attack.

Read post on MEDIUM

#nonukes #hiroshima #nagasaki #japan #hiroshima80 #nagasaki80 #nomorehiroshima #nomorenagasaki #nomorehibakusha #nomorewar

August 6, 2025 is the 80th anniversary of the nuclear bombing of Hiroshima city. The first part is a pre-recorded walk-thru of the most meaningful monuments that I introduce on guided tours and the 2nd part is clips from the August 6th livestreaming video from around the A-bomb dome on August 6th.

#peacenow #nonukes #hiroshima80 #peace #hiroshimajapan #hiroshima #japan

Watch the video of this podcast on the SEEK SUSTAINABLE JAPAN podcast playlist:

https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLcyYXjRuE20E18H3DZrT5FnAfxDiLFs32&si=poKQJQd1db7uSZZh

July Short-Takes 30 minutes of sustainable japan & beyond highlights with two sustainability focused women entrepreneurs based in Japan, JJWalsh and Tove Kinooka

Sustainable travel definitely includes plantbased dining, but independent vegan travelers struggle with Japan travel as there are fewer options and sometimes hard work to research and explain what you need. World Vegan Travel does the research and tour plan for vegan travelers around the world and has great insights on Japan travel.

Brighde Reed is co-founder of World Vegan Travel Company and a plantbased expert for Japan and other parts of Asia and the world where they run their tours focused on supporting vegan travelers who want meaningful, fun, engaging and on track with their plantbased eating lifestyle values.

#worldvegantravel

LINKS

World Vegan Travel Website https://worldvegantravel.com/

World Vegan Travel Upcoming 2026 Japan Tour https://worldvegantravel.com/joyful-japan-2026-1/

NYT Gift Article about Vegan Travel Booming: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/01/21/travel/vegan-travel.html?unlocked_article_code=1.X08.m6Y7.N8dgzBURo9d4&smid=url-share

Japan ANIMO Animal Sanctuary  @animosanctuary  https://www.animosanctuary.org/

Hiroshima New Stylish Vegan Eatery https://jogesayu-hiroshima.com/en/

Vegan Food at Osaka World Expo 2025 https://www.itravelforveganfood.com/articles/vegan-food-osaka-world-expo-2025

PETA featured World Vegan Travel for plantbased sustainable travel safari tours https://www.peta.org/features/vegan-african-safaris/.  @peta 

Vegan Influencer Colleen Patrick Goudreau: https://colleenpatrickgoudreau.com/

After cataract surgery, can my eyes be reused? / Reading glasses LIONS club donation ‪@lionsclubs‬ / New Japan BioPlastic Tech discovery that dissolves in seawater ‪@Reuters‬ / Fujisawa Beach Clean event with SEGO / Popular keep-cool tech waste ‪@theGuardian‬ / Tokyo pride parade & LGBTQ+ issues in Japan / MrBeast viral generosity success on YouTube ‪@BeastPhilanthropy‬ / Daikin Air-Conditioner Sales Boom sticks to carbon-neutral targets ‪@thejapantimes‬ / Osaka Expo REUSABLE structure BLUE DOME ‪@TheEconomist‬

LINKS

• BioPlastic Japan Scientific Discovery https://www.reuters.com/sustainabilit... ‪@Reuters‬
• SEGO BeachCleanUp featured on Go Connect: https://goconnect.jp/2025/06/04/sego-... ‪@goconnectjp‬
• MrBeast Philanthropy - Go Viral & Make Money while doing Good for People & Planet ‪@BeastPhilanthropy‬ https://www.beastphilanthropy.org

- ‪@medium‬ Beast Games and Mr.Beast inspiration for content creators doing good