The Declaration of the Immunity Nation for COVID-19:JAPAN

Becoming a Leading Immunity Nation for a Better World            Creating a “Japanese Model” for a Sustainable Society

Although countries and regions around the world are pursuing polices and measures to achieve a sustainable society, every country and region in the world is still in a trial-and-error stage.
In this context, Japan is in an ideal position to create a working model of a sustainable society as a “miniature Earth,” in the sense that Japan has few natural resources as well as a population and industrial activities that are concentrated onto national land that is limited in size, and yet has strengths such as traditional wisdom from living in harmony with nature, environmental and energy-related technologies that have enabled socio-economic development, the experience of having overcome severe pollution, abundant human resources with great passion and capabilities. In addition, Japan boasts a culture and set of values in which efforts conducted through public-private partnerships incorporate the participation and cooperation of a broad array of stakeholders who work together as one, as evidenced in the contributions made to the nation’s steady economic growth.
We should take full advantage of these strengths to create a “leading environmental nation,” with a strategy of policies and measures for the development and spread of environmental and energy-related technologies, reforms of social and economic systems and so on, in cooperation and partnership with other countries around the world. Through such efforts Japan will utilize in modern-day society its traditional wisdom for coexistence with the natural environment. Moreover, through the cooperation of a wide range of stakeholders acting in unison, Japan will use its world-leading environmental and energy-related technologies, its experience and wisdom in overcoming severe pollution, and its abundant supply of passionate and capable human resources to derive from the environment both economic growth and vitality in local societies, creating a “Japanese model” in which Japan, as a leading Immunity nation, contributes to the development
and the prosperity of the globe, to be shared with Asia and with the world.