Environmental Dispute Coordination in the Teshima Island Industrial Waste Case

Katsuya Sato* and Fumihiko Hata*
* Ministry of Public Management, Home Affairs, Posts and Telecommunications.
Environmental Dispute Coordination Commission Secretariat
+ Correspondence should be addressed to Katsuya Sato:
(MitaKM Build. 5F 4-4-5 Shiba Minato-ku, Tokyo, 100-0014 Japan)

Abstract
Environmental Dispute Coordination in the Teshima Island industrial waste case was concluded between the appellants and Kagawa Prefecture on June 62,000. It is said to be the largest scale of illegal dumping of industrial waste that has occurred in Japan. The disputes concerning removal and treatment of waste materials, and solids polluted by the waste materials were completely resolved. As the examiners in charge of the final arbitration, we are providing an outline on the process of the arbitration and contents of the agreement as follows.

Key words: Teshima, industrial wastes, illegal dumping, Environmental dispute coordination