No Green Party at the Japanese Parliament means a lot

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It doesn't matter whether the leftist parties in Japan are better inclined toward the environment than other parties, because in Europe, almost any major party, be it left, center or right, has at least as much concern for the environment than the most environmentalist Japanese party with seats at the Parliament.... For example, there is no significant green party in the UK either....

(1) Exactly what is this "most environmentalist Japanese party" you are talking about here, (2) exactly what kind of environmental policy agenda they are advancing, and (3) exactly what's lacking in their concern for the environment?

The British did not just invent the Society for the Protection of Animal Rights....

Again, exactly what organization of animal rights in Japan are you talking about? Or are you implying that there exist zero animal rights activists in Japan? If not, how many orgs exists in Japan, what are the leading orgs, what have they (and the government) achieved, and exactly how poor is their performance compared to that of the British and the rest of the world?

For example, Japan does recycle its wastes, but the separation is very simple (burnable, non-burnable, bottles).

What exactly is this "Japan" you are talking about? Waste management is mostly left to the discretion of each local municipality under Wastes Disposal and Public Cleaning Law (廃棄物の処理及び清掃に関する法律). In Yamagata waste is sorted into 8 categories, 9 in Utsumnomiya, 12 in Tsu, 15 in Kochi, 12 in Saga, 23 in Minamata, 14 in Miyazaki, 32 in Hekinan among others (cf. http://www.ktv.co.jp/ARUARU/search/arugomi/gomi1.htm). Recyclable waste categories in the city of Hekinan include aluminium cans, steal cans, plastic bottles, sake bottles (glass), beer bottles, colorless bottles, brown bottles, blue and green bottles, black bottles, cigar lighters, polystyrene, hard plastic, newspaper and magazines, clothes, fluorescent bulb, dry batteries, ceramics, glass (cf. http://www.katch.ne.jp/~hiro32/recy/recy002.htm). At national level, Law for Promotion of Sorted Collection and Recycling of Containers and Packaging (容器包装リサイクル法 effective 1997) specifies 8 recyclable categories: glass, plastic bottles, paper containers, steal cans, aluminium cans, paper packs, cardboard, the first four of which are mandatory to recycle.