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Tokyo: A Society where Women Shine starts with education

August 28, 2015

Japan Reasserts Government and Citizens' Strong Ties to UNESCO

August 29, 2015

Film director Naomi Kawase named UNESCO Goodwill Ambassador

November 26, 2021

Crafting the sea. New directions towards a balanced relationship between societies and their environment

Crafting the sea is a 15month multidisciplinary innovative project aimed at identifying local knowledge for monitoring climate change identifying biodiversity mitigating risks and promoting a more balanced relationship between humans and nature To this end the project focuses on the marine life of the Rovinj archipelago a NATURA2000 protected area in Croatia The first phase of the project which ran from May to October concentrated on identification and research and included a 3day workshop on 1921 October on the nexus between intangible cultural heritage and sustainable humannature relationships

December 9, 2021

Japanese Biosphere Reserves in review for 50th Anniversary of UNESCO's MAB Programme

A video produced by the Japanese Biosphere Reserves Network JBRN with the cooperation of the Japanese National Commission for UNESCO and the Japanese Coordinating Committee for MAB and support from the AEON Environmental Foundation has recently been released to introduce the activities of the Japanese Biosphere Reserves within the framework of the Man and the Biosphere MAB Programme

February 10, 2021

Japan to raise its partnership with UNESCO

February 22, 2021

Tools for the protection of cultural and historical heritage in the Sava River Basin

On 19 January 2021 the International Sava River Basin Commission and UNESCO with the support of other SHELTER project partners held successfully online the Sava Open Lab Third Stakeholder workshop Under the guidance of the SHELTER team 28 stakeholders from 6 Member States discussed the results and next steps of the research undertaken within the project The workshop discussed the several tools for cultural and historical heritage in the Sava River Basin and essential future needs of the SHELTER project With the participation of the stakeholders the selected resilience indicators and factsheets for the Sava open lab were also presented during the workshop

UNESCO’s Story for Development celebrates persons with disabilities’ achievements

Mr Kakiuchi a Japanese leading entrepreneur making a speech © 2021 Mirairo Inc Supported by the Nippon Foundation UNESCOs Story for Development is an online platform dedicated to the inspiring stories of person with disabilities around the world The platform identifies and creates an online registry of persons with disabilities success stories and their impact in the political economic academic and social spheres in their respective communities

Japan’s deposit of instrument of accession makes the Tokyo Convention very close to enter into force

December 7, 2017

First meeting of UNESCO Director-General Azoulay with Prime Minister Abe of Japan

October 17, 2018

A new chapter in the strategic partnership between Japan and UNESCO

October 18, 2018

How an innovative project from Croatia is developing ‘digitally mature schools’

October 30, 2018

UNESCO Brings Together All Government Partners in Japan at Annual Review Meeting

On 27 and 28 February 2020 UNESCO hosted the 2020 Annual Review meeting with Japan to review programmes funded through voluntary contributions from Japan and plan for the future For the first time the meeting brought together all UNESCOs main government partners in Japan including the Ministry of Foreign Affairs the Ministry of Education Culture Sports Science and Technology MEXT as well as the Ministry of Land Infrastructure Transport and Tourism and the Japan International Cooperation Agency with the Japan Agency for MarineEarth Science and Technology connecting from Tokyo by skype Together these partners support a portfolio of active projects with UNESCO in excess of $ 58 million On behalf of the DirectorGeneral JeanYves Le Saux Director of the Bureau of Strategic Planning of UNESCO expressed sincere appreciation to the Government of Japan for its commitment to provide long term predictable support that was highly aligned with the expected results of UNESCOs programme He also thanked the Government for standing boldly by UNESCO in addressing major new challenges relating to the ethical dimension of Artificial Intelligence the Futures of Education the Decade of Ocean Sciences as well as the flagship initiative Revive the Spirit of Mosul The meeting was also the opportunity to review recently approved large scale programmes for Afghanistan including a $7 million nonformal education programme and a programme for the Sustainable Management of the World Heritage Property in Bamiyan for which UNESCO and Japan signed a $ 39 million agreement earlier in the week