Jane Singer is Associate Professor at the Graduate School of Global Environmental Studies, Kyoto University, Japan, where she co-supervises the Environmental Education study area. Her research focuses on human migration and displacement, community resilience, campus sustainability and tertiary-level education for sustainability.Tracey Gannon was a lecturer and later a tenured associate professor in environmental communication at the Graduate School of Global Environmental Studies, Kyoto University, Japan, from 2003 to 2014. She currently divides her time between Japan and the UK, combining freelance editorial work and sustainability teaching with ongoing research into environmental education and eco literacy.Fumiko Noguchi has been working in the field of environmental education and ESD for nearly twenty years. She has been working for the Japan Council on Education for Sustainable Development (ESD-J) as the International Programme Coordinator since 2004. She is currently a researcher at the Centre for Global Research, RMIT University, Australia.Yoko Mochizuki is Head of the Rethinking Curriculum Programme at the UNESCO Mahatma Gandhi Institute of Education for Peace and Sustainable Development in New Delhi, India, which she joined in 2015 from UNESCO Paris.

• IntroductionTop-down and bottom-up ESD: divergence and convergence of Japanese ESD discourses and practices Yoko MochizukiPart I: School-based approachesChapter 1. Formal ESD in Japan: dissolving walls between classroom and communityJane Singer and Yoshiyuki NagataChapter 2. Implications of 3.11 for disaster education and education for sustainable development in Japan Aiko Sakurai and Rajib ShawChapter 3. Assessing sustainability learning and practice at Moriyama High School, Shiga, JapanYi Zhou and Jane SingerChapter 4. Globalising school education in Japan: an investigation using the academic ability model Toshiya KodamaChapter 5. Perspectives on education for sustainable development through local cultural heritageShizuo Nakazawa and Tadashi IzumitaniChapter 6. An investigation into fairness and bias in educational materials produced by the Japanese government to teach school children about nuclear power and radiationShinobu GotoChapter 7. Collaborating for change: teaching and assessing a university community sustainability course in Japan and Vietnam Tracey Gannon, Jane Singer and Benjamin McLellanPart II: Community-based approachesChapter 8. Community-based, non-formal and informal ESD in Japan: where top-down and bottom-up approaches meetFumiko Noguchi and Toyoshi SasakiChapter 9. Can civil society revitalise dying rural villages? The case of Kamiseya in Kyoto prefectureBinxian Ji and Katsue FukamachiChapter 10. Multi-stakeholder community education through environmental learning programmes in NishinomiyaMiki YoshizumiChapter 11. From challenge to opportunity: Japanese non-profit organisations harness post-3.11 civic engagement Sarajean RossittoChapter 12. A radical approach from the periphery: informal ESD through rights recovery for indigenous AinuFumiko NoguchiChapter 13. The Tohoku Green Renaissance Project – networking green rebuilding activities after a mega-disasterTsubasa Iwabuchi and Noriko Takemoto Chapter 14. The importance of genfukei (spirit of place) to citizen participation in community building in Zushi city Koichi NagashimaChapter 15. Exploring the values of rural communities through place-based education in Niigata prefectureTakako TakanoPostscript. Reflections on visions of rebuilding Tohoku: the future of ESD as a response to risk in JapanYoko Mochizuki with Makoto Hatakeyama

Jane Singer is Associate Professor at the Graduate School of Global Environmental Studies, Kyoto University, Japan, where she co-supervises the Environmental Education study area. Her research focuses on human migration and displacement, community resilience, campus sustainability and tertiary-level education for sustainability.Tracey Gannon was a lecturer and later a tenured associate professor in environmental communication at the Graduate School of Global Environmental Studies, Kyoto University, Japan, from 2003 to 2014. She currently divides her time between Japan and the UK, combining freelance editorial work and sustainability teaching with ongoing research into environmental education and eco literacy.Fumiko Noguchi has been working in the field of environmental education and ESD for nearly twenty years. She has been working for the Japan Council on Education for Sustainable Development (ESD-J) as the International Programme Coordinator since 2004. She is currently a researcher at the Centre for Global Research, RMIT University, Australia.Yoko Mochizuki is Head of the Rethinking Curriculum Programme at the UNESCO Mahatma Gandhi Institute of Education for Peace and Sustainable Development in New Delhi, India, which she joined in 2015 from UNESCO Paris.

• IntroductionTop-down and bottom-up ESD: divergence and convergence of Japanese ESD discourses and practices Yoko MochizukiPart I: School-based approachesChapter 1. Formal ESD in Japan: dissolving walls between classroom and communityJane Singer and Yoshiyuki NagataChapter 2. Implications of 3.11 for disaster education and education for sustainable development in Japan Aiko Sakurai and Rajib ShawChapter 3. Assessing sustainability learning and practice at Moriyama High School, Shiga, JapanYi Zhou and Jane SingerChapter 4. Globalising school education in Japan: an investigation using the academic ability model Toshiya KodamaChapter 5. Perspectives on education for sustainable development through local cultural heritageShizuo Nakazawa and Tadashi IzumitaniChapter 6. An investigation into fairness and bias in educational materials produced by the Japanese government to teach school children about nuclear power and radiationShinobu GotoChapter 7. Collaborating for change: teaching and assessing a university community sustainability course in Japan and Vietnam Tracey Gannon, Jane Singer and Benjamin McLellanPart II: Community-based approachesChapter 8. Community-based, non-formal and informal ESD in Japan: where top-down and bottom-up approaches meetFumiko Noguchi and Toyoshi SasakiChapter 9. Can civil society revitalise dying rural villages? The case of Kamiseya in Kyoto prefectureBinxian Ji and Katsue FukamachiChapter 10. Multi-stakeholder community education through environmental learning programmes in NishinomiyaMiki YoshizumiChapter 11. From challenge to opportunity: Japanese non-profit organisations harness post-3.11 civic engagement Sarajean RossittoChapter 12. A radical approach from the periphery: informal ESD through rights recovery for indigenous AinuFumiko NoguchiChapter 13. The Tohoku Green Renaissance Project – networking green rebuilding activities after a mega-disasterTsubasa Iwabuchi and Noriko Takemoto Chapter 14. The importance of genfukei (spirit of place) to citizen participation in community building in Zushi city Koichi NagashimaChapter 15. Exploring the values of rural communities through place-based education in Niigata prefectureTakako TakanoPostscript. Reflections on visions of rebuilding Tohoku: the future of ESD as a response to risk in JapanYoko Mochizuki with Makoto Hatakeyama