It makes no description about the environmental issue, whose impact is particularly serious for women. In Japanese politics, extraordinary preference has been given to development for the benefit of general contractor and other major companies, and the environmental destruction is proceeding. The country is in a serious situation concerning dioxin contamination and environmental endocrine disrupters due to the lack of measures to reduce waste at source, by which Japan is said to be behind European countries in terms of measures to deal with those chemical substances. Large-scale development projects such as construction of dams and roads only helps the destruction of environment.
Big companies discharge toxic chemical substance freely.
Transportation policies do not impose strict regulations on air pollution with their priority given to cars. The Government takes such a passive attitude toward global warming that it met intense criticism from other nations in COP3 in Kyoto. The recent critical accident at Tokai Nuclear Power Plant revealed the country's nuclear energy administration that sticks to the use of plutonium is so haphazard and dangerous. Due to the Government's agriculture policy that has only helped to undermine the country's agriculture, Japan's food self-sufficiency rate has continued to drop and the rural villages and natural environment are ruined, which has resulted in greater damage when an earthquake takes place and frequent occurrence of damages from storms and floods. Such Japanese politics have also caused environmental destruction in developing countries.