Japan

Sakura Pyro Waste Systems Launches Global Initiative to Turn Waste into Energy
PR Web Press Release Newswire, February 2007

Charcoal Use in Japan (From Japanese Market News: Charcoal 2000)
IBPC Osaka Network Center

1. In Japanese, charcoal is called "mokutan", or sometimes simply "sumi". Long ago, charcoal used to be the main source of fuel for household use, and was as important a necessity of life as rice. Domestic output in around 1955 was approximately 2 million tons. Output gradually dropped year by year, however, because of the switch to the

RDF (and biomass waste) Carbonizing System
Environmental Solutions Center, JFE Holdings, Inc., Tokyo, Japan

Change of Dominant Microbial Community in Composting of Rice Bran by Adding Charcoal
Shuji Yoshizawa, Satoko Tanaka, ACER, December 2006

Proliferation of Microorganisms in Compost by Addition of Bamboo Charcoals
Shuji Yoshizawa, Michio Ohata, Satoko Tanaka, ACER News vol 2 June 2005
Asian Center for Environmental Research (ACER), Meisei University, Japan
http://acer.meisei-u.ac.jp

Sustainability and reality of the projects of Carbon sequestration by Carbonization and Forestation (CCF) as a biomass conversion option
Makoto Ogawa, Yasuyuki Okimori*, Fumio Takahashi, ACC Strategy, Abrupt Climate change, Paris, September 2004

Abstract.

Current activities of biofertilizer project in Japan
Takuji Ohyama, Faculty of Agriculture, Niigata University

Biofertilizer mailing list
Biofertilizer mailing list has been established for exchanging information among researchers, producers, technicians, farmers, students and people who are interested in biofertilizer in Asia proposed in the last meeting in Bangkok. This list is managed by Project manager Dr. Tsuguo Genka JAIF. There are 73 people in the current list.

Effects of Charcoal as a Soil Conditioner onCitrus Growth and Vesicular-arbuscular Mycorrhizal Development
ISHII T; KADOYA K. JOURNAL OF THE JAPANESE SOCIETY FOR HORTICULTURAL SCIENCE 63: 529-535, 1994

The utilization of VA mycorrhizal (VAM) fungi for crop production:
T. Ishii, Lab of Pomology, Kyoto Prefecture University, Japan

Microbial Fertilizers in Japan
Michinori Nishio, National Institute of Agro-Environmental Sciences, Ibaraki, Japan
Food & Fertilizer Technology Center (FFTC) for the Asian and Pacific Region