YOKOSUKA, Kanagawa -- Over 80% of university students who responded to this east Japan city's happiness survey indicated that ...

Under the current system, rubbish collectors place yellow “violation stickers” on bin bags that don’t have properly ...

Residents in Kamikatsu, a Japanese town with an ambitious zero-waste goal, proudly sort their rubbish into 45 categories.

While some cities in Japan, including Kyoto and Sasebo in the Nagasaki Prefecture, conduct inspections of rubbish bags and disclose the names of offending businesses, Fukushima is the first to do ...

For the uninitiated, sorting one's rubbish can be a convoluted process in Japan - a country that boasts one of the world's strictest waste disposal rules. But in the city of Fukushima, things are ...