This collection of papers is from meetings held between February 11 an 18, 1996 with Taiwanese and Thai pollution victims. The meetings were conducted by the Japan Air Pollution Victims Association with a grant from the Japan Fund for Global Environment.

Pollution Victims

(Director, Nishiyodogawa Association for Pollution Patients and Their Families)
“The Experience of Organizing Pollution Victims in Nishiyodogawa”

“Experience in Organizing Pollution Victims”

“The Movement by Air Pollution Victims Against the Mizushima Industrial Complex, a New Industrial City”

Lawyers

“The Involvement of Japan’s Lawyers in Environmental Issues”

“The Role of Epidemiology in Japan’s Pollution Litigation, and the Extent of Its Progress”

“Japan’s Air Pollution Court Cases: Overview, Main Points at Issue, Achievements, and Challenges”

“Progress in the Nishiyodogawa Pollution Lawsuit”

“Motor Vehicle Emission Controls in Japan”

Supporters

(Secretary General, General Federation of Osaka Labor Unions)
“The Pollution Victims’ Movement and Support by Laborers”

(Acting Secretary-General, Osaka Urban Environment Council)
“Community Redevelopment Initiatives by Pollution Victims”

Overview

(Professor, Department of Economics, Kyoto University)
“Taiwan’s Environmental Policy and the Japanese Model”