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East Asia Environmental Information Express Manager
Representative, Toshiya Hirose
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our Neighbors' Environmental Issues China and Korea - Japan's neighbors. We see many news articles about the graveness of Chinese environmental issues, in particular, but searching the web for information on the status quo of the environment in both countries or on activities undertaken by environmental NGO's, we find that little information is offered in Japanese. In Autumn 2000, we began making preparations for the "Project for Web-based Sharing of Japanese, Chinese and Korean Environmental Information," in which NGO's from Japan, China and Korea have collaborated with the objective of providing a website that offers the same environmental information in Japanese, Chinese and Korean, the official languages spoken in their respective countries and a tool which allows site visitors to cross the language barrier in discussion. Conducting a Survey of Websites
Furthermore, we conceded that despite the efforts of various environmental NGO's, not only in China but in all three countries, to provide the domestic audience with diverse environmental information via the Internet, we have yet to work on transmitting information to a foreign audience. The First Japan-China-Korea Steering Committee - Seoul Meeting In January 2002, environmental NGO's from the three countries met in Seoul, Korea to discuss the proceedings of the project and to exchange information on the status quo and role of environmental NGO's in each country and on domestic environmental issues for the year 2001. Consequently, we were able to have an understanding of the differences in our backgrounds. We believe the interaction at the conference has brought us one step closer to cooperation based on mutual understanding. Discussion on a Bulletin Working in Three Languages Members from the three countries currently exchange
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Contact: East Asia Environmental Information Express Manager 2-7-3 Kojimachi, Nishikawa Bldg., Chiyoda Ward, Tokyo 102-0083 c/o ASAP21 TEL: +81-3-3263-9022 FAX: +81-3-3263-9463 URL: http://www.eden-j.org |
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