Sustainable Travel Japan

Joy's recently back from Hawaii and inspired for sustainable travel and business strategies that also apply back to Japan. Tove has some Tokyo innovation and topics such as shorts okay for Cool Biz? / Regenerative Vertical Indoor Farm in Tokyo / Biodegradable plastics being used in Japan vs Hawaii / Sompo Japan insurance / EV electric car subsidy up to 1.3Million yen payback for all Japanese makers HONDA - TOYOTA - NISSAN - MITSUBISHI - MAZDA - SUBARU

#madeinjapan Sustainable

Short-Takes is a monthly chat between two friends on either side of Japan who both work in sustainability. Talks each month about sustainability trends, innovation, events and issues for Japan & beyond with JJWalsh & Tove Kinooka - 2 sustainability-focused insiders, educators & consultants working in Hiroshima & Tokyo Topics & Updates - July 2026

Tove Kinooka Global Perspectives KK

Enteleco Consulting https://www.globalperspectives.biz/ https://www.linkedin.com/company/enteleco https://www.linkedin.com/in/tove-kinooka

JJWalsh - InboundAmbassador co.

sustainable tourism & business consulting & development / sustainable tour training & guiding / moderator-speaker-host of Seek Sustainable Japan https://www.linkedin.com/in/jjwalsh-inbound-ambassador/ https'//www.inboundambassador.com

Farmer Thomas Kloepfer has been working this stunning hillside farmland for 15 years and finding the years of no-till farming paying off with healthy soil integrated with farm animals. Pitchfork Farms is on Mukaishima island, Onomichi area in Hiroshima, Japan.

Book your own private farm tour with Thomas- it works well as a part of your Shimanami-Kaido cycle ride along the coast starting from Onomichi: https://www.pitchforkfarms.jp/

University of Melbourne Educator Athanasios Tsakonas talks about the design of dark-tourism, A-bomb survivor trees of reconciliation & WW2 memorial sites in Hiroshima, Yokohama and Australia.

LINKS LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/athanasios-tsakonas-85490438/

Green Legacy Hiroshima: https://gethiroshima.com/features/green-legacy/

Yokohama commonwealth war cemetery https://www.cwgc.org/visit-us/find-cemeteries-memorials/cemetery-details/49433/yokohama-war-cemetery/

Podcast with Tsakonas on the Eucalyptus of the Yokohama Memorial https://www.shrine.org.au/eucalypts-hodogaya-podcast

Tan & Tsakonas architectural office in Singapore: https://www.archify.com/sg/tan-tsakonas-architects

Great topics in today's chat: renewable energy, sustainable life & business solutions, fabulous plantbased food, wonderful hotels in London, Hiroshima & Fukuoka putting people & planet forward, Ideas from London to promote EV's & ultra-low emissions

#talkshow #cleanenergy #lowemissions #london #hiroshima #fukuoka #onomichi #heatwave #greathotels #japan #uk

Topics & Updates - June 2026 Tove Kinooka

Global Perspectives KK / Enteleco Consulting https://www.globalperspectives.biz/ / https://www.linkedin.com/company/enteleco https://www.linkedin.com/in/tove-kinooka

JJWalsh - InboundAmbassador co. - sustainable tourism & business consulting & development / sustainable tour training & guiding / moderator-speaker-host of Seek Sustainable Japan https://www.linkedin.com/in/jjwalsh-inbound-ambassador/ https'//www.inboundambassador.com

Kristina Minami is better known as SugaLenin on Instagram and shares some of her favorite rural Japan travel advice as well as information about her new business to help guide visitors to more meaningful, less crowded travel with INNER JAPAN

Jay Allen has been the publisher and chief writer of the popular site Unseen-Japan since 2018 and living in Tokyo, Japan full-time since 2024 writing and guiding tours for Tokyo's nightlife and lesser-known capitol city gems.

In this talk, Jay Allen has great insights about social issues, travel, history and culture as well as current news events and key issues worth discussing for a better informed international community. Looking forward to talking with Jay and learning more of the backstory and philosophy of his work and projects as well as their guided tours.

https://unseen-japan.com/author/unseenjapanpress/

@UnseenJapan

Custom Tokyo Tours: https://unseen-japan.com/unseen-japan-tours/

Articles by Jay Allen on UnseenJapan: https://unseen-japan.com/author/unseenjapanpress/

Safety Pin Self-Defense of Groping on Tokyo Trains: https://unseen-japan.com/tokyo-chikan-campaign-self-defense/

Adrienne and Zealous Wiley are US based Palm Springs designers who fell in love with traditional Japanese houses and are living their dream by purchasing and beautifully renovating a 100-year-old machiya (traditional townhouse) in Kyoto, Japan. This live chat with Adrienne and Zealous gives us insights on their design decisions and steps of renovation as what led them to take on this new lifestyle.

Their journey buying and fixing up a Japanese house started with @shumatsuopost and his team of experts for finding houses and getting the paperwork done. Zealous made this beautiful website of their renovation journey: https://higashiyama-machiya.com/

YouTube & Instagram: @psiminkyoto

Machiya Journal on Substack: https://psiminkyoto.substack.com/

This talk is a lightly edited version of a talk I did with my dad Jay Jarman 5-years ago on Seek Sustainable Japan. Still so many wonderful insights here on living a life and running a business with a focus on helping kids in need. Dad has now officially retired but as the founder of such a wonderful organization he is still very much a part of their fabulous work.

LINKS https://www.commongrace.org/ http://www.malamamentors.org/

Rick Grehan of image mill talks of his new project just an hour outside of Tokyo to revive an old silk-making house and tea farm as sustainable and regenerative as possible to bring it back to life as a new community creative experience and learning hub for Tokyo folks to engage with nature, local people and tap into a better work-life balance.

Please help them raise funds for this project by donating a little or a lot on Campfire:

https://camp-fire.jp/projects/932524/view

Joy and Tove catch-up on travel, events, projects and products that focus more on a sustainable Japan