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P.R. Managerial Meeting
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General Manager: Dr.Kazunori Wada Representative managers: Mr.Tomio Akita, Mr.Ryoichi Kurosaki, Mr.Toshio Yarimizo, Mr.Masuo Kondo, Mr.Minoru Kikuchi, Mr.Makoto Kimura Managers: Mr.Yoshiaki Sato, Mr.Shinsuke Setoshita, Mr.Akira Kamakura, Mr.Yoshinori Nonomura, Ms.Yuko Nagaya, Mr.Yuya Kato, Dr.Mamoru Suwa, Mr.Yuji Okayasu, Mr.Hiroyuki Sato, Mr.Koji Ishida, Mr.Masaru Terada, Mr.Naoki Yanatori, Mr.Tomoyuki Noro
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Mr.Nobuhiko Komachiya, Mr.Tadayuki Wada Representative managers: Mr.Naoki Yorozu, Mr.Toshihiro Nakamori, Managers: Mr.Hirofumi Kitsuta, Mr.Masashi Mori, Ms.Maiko Kawanaka, Ms.Sayaka Okazaki

Editor´s Note

Many themes were connected with environmental conservation and cost reduction, including pavement, fish ecology, dams, and biotechnologies. I have even heard recent commercials tout products that that reduce CO₂ emissions. When I was studying earth sciences more than 10 years ago, I learned of non-CO₂-based systems that cause temperature variation, such as Milankovitch cycles and carbon cycling. Perhaps these systems have an impact when viewed on a 10,000- or 100,000-year time scale; however, because the state of the environment impacts on our health, we pay environment costs to maintain our health when, for example, we buy organic foods at high prices.

Ten years ago, there was no discussion of whether it was consumers, the government (taxes), or companies that paid environmental costs, nor was there talk about environmental taxes or CO₂ emissions trading. Thus, like Buddhist self-clarification, I think we must seize the initiative in our studies following graduation from school.

(Yoshiaki Sato)