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The Ministry of the Environment (環境省 Kankyō-shō) is a Cabinet-level ministry of the government of Japan responsible for global environmental conservation, pollution control, and nature conservation. The ministry was formed in 2001 from the sub-cabinet level Environmental Agency established in 1971.

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  • The Guidelines for Harmonizing Marine Litter Monitoring Methods Using Remote Sensing Technologies, Version 1.0. 

    Isobe, Atsuhiko; Aliani, Stefano; Andriolo, Umberto; Dierssen, Heidi; Game Monteiro, João; Goncalves, Gil; Hidaka, Mitsuko; Kako, Shin’ichiro; Kataoka, Tomoya; Martinez-Vincente, Victor; Matsuoka, Daisuke; Mishra, Pravakar; Streett, Davida; Takahashi, Yukihiro; Topouzelis, Konstantinos; Van Emmerik, Tim (Ministry of the Environment, Japan Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo , Japan, Tokyo, Japan, 2024)
    This document presents the “Guidelines for Harmonizing Marine Litter Monitoring Methods Using Remote Sensing Technologies” (herein after referred to as the Guidelines). It aims to further improve the comprehensiveness ...

  • Guidelines for Harmonizing Ocean Surface Microplastic Monitoring Methods. Version 1.2. 

    Michida, Yutaka; Chavanich, Suchana; Chiba, Sanae; Cordova, Muhammad Reza; Cozsar Cabanas, Andrés; Galgani, Francois; Hagmann, Pascal; Hinata, Hirofumi; Isobe, Atsuhiko; Kershaw, Peter; Kozlovskii, Nikolai; Li, Daoji; Lusher, Amy L.; Marti, Elisa; Mason, Sherri A.; Mu, Jingli; Saito, Hiroaki; Shim, Won Joon; Syakti, Agung Dhamar; Takada, Hideshige; Thompson, Richard; Tokai, Tadashi; Uchida, Keiichi; Vasilenko, Katerina; Wang, Juying (Ministry of the Environment, Japan, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo , Japan, 2023)
    ATLAS OF OCEAN MICROPLASTICS (AOMI), a global database of surface microplastics was launched in 2024 at https://aomi.env.go.jp/. It contains the data from all over the world, in line with the Guidelines, The uploaded version ...

  • Guidelines for Harmonizing Ocean Surface Microplastic Monitoring Methods. Version 1.0. {SUPERSEDED by http://dx.doi.org/10.25607/OBP-867] 

    Michida, Yutaka; Chavanich, Suchana; Cózar Cabañas, Andrés; Hagmann, Pascal; Hinata, Hirofumi; Isobe, Atsuhiko; Kershaw, Peter; Kozlovskii, Nikolai; Li, Daoji; Lusher, Amy L.; Martí, Elisa; Mason, Sherri A.; Mu, Jingli; Saito, Hiroaki; Shim, Won Joon; Syakti, Agung Dhamar; Takada, Hideshige; Thompson, Richard; Tokai, Tadashi; Uchida, Keiichi; Vasilenko, Katerina; Wang, Juying (Ministry of the Environment, Japan (MOEJ), Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo, Japan, 2019)
    Marine litter, including microplastics, is a current global challenge. Determining the existing distributions and quantities of microplastics in the ocean is an urgent task. Comparison of reported microplastic abundances, ...