Experience of Yokkaichi City: Forerunner of air quality management in Japan

This paper presents on the experience of Mie Prefecture and Yokkaichi City titled; Experience of Yokkaichi city: Forerunner of air quality management in Japan. The experience of Yokkaichi city is one of the four biggest environmental pollutions in Japan along as two Minamatas and Itai-itai disease, and has been known the name not only domestically but internationally. Here the paper will explain its chronological outline and socio-economic background in 1960s, its urban environmental management capacity, its adaptability to developing country in Asia-Pacific. This presentation consists of five sections: Outline of the Yokkaichi /City’s Air Pollution Experience, Analysis of the City’s environmental management capacity, Comparison with the successor cities in Japan, Adaptability to Asian developing countries, and Conclusion.