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Japan's Handling of International Environmental Problems: Contradictions with the Domestic Record

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 February 2017

Julian Gresser*
Affiliation:
Harvard Law School and University of Hawaii School of Law

Abstract

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Type
Japan's Emerging Views of International Law
Copyright
Copyright © American Society of International Law 1977

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References

1 The one exception has been Japan's opposition to atmospheric nuclear tests. For a discussion of Japan's contribution in the formulation of Principle 26 at the United Nation's Stockholm Conference of 1972, see Sohn, The Stockholm Declaration on the Human Environment, 14 Harvard Int'l L.J. 423 (1973).

2 For example, the Center on Human Environmental Problems at Tokyo Metropolitan University has started a research project on the legal aspects of environmental problems in Southeast Asia. For an insight into the origin of this group, see Gresser, A Japan Center for Human Environmental Problems: The Beginning of International Public Interest Cooperation, 3 Ecology L.Q. 759 (1973).