일본 정부의 SDGs 이행 실천 현황과 도전과제

Abstract

The Japanese government, which has set SDGs as its national and urban future strategies, presented SDGs guidelines and action plan (SDGs action plan) through SDGs drive roundtable discussion with various stakeholders. The Japanese government's SDGs drive is based on the following three pillars linked to the existing Human Security. They are; ① the promotion of 'Social 5.0', which is linked to SDGs, ② the creation of localities with 2 SDGs as the driving force, and ③ the strengthening of the authority of next generation and women as the main players of SDGs. The Japanese government's practice of SDGs over the past five years has resulted in the boosting of the activities of youth and women, which includes; revision of the Japanese Federation of Economic Organizations' code of conduct and ESG, the spread of SDGs management linked with STI(Science & Technology Innovation) for SDGs, the identification of the possibility of creating localities through SDGs future cities and model projects, and the establishment of a platform for promoting next-generation SDGs. However, establishing values, ideologies, norms, raising awareness, preparing measures to improve the targets with low-progress and establishing effective systems and means to achieve SDGs by 2030 remain a challenge. The purpose of this paper is to introduce the situation of SDGs response by the Japanese government, the most advanced SDGs country in East Asia, and to find implications for implementing Korean SDGs. This is because the Japanese case could serve as a mirror for the implementation of Korean SDGs. This paper can be called as an exploratory study of Japanese SDGs. This study cross-analyzed the primary data related to SDGs produced by the Japanese government, ministries and agencies, and the secondary data such as SDGs books, papers and articles published in Japan. The timing of the analysis is limited until November 2020 from the adoption of SDGs. The analysis targets are divided into government policies and project levels to introduce and analyze the background of introduction of SDGs in Japan, recognition (value and ideology) of SDGs, characteristics of Japanese SDGs, structure and process of cooperation, and performance and tasks.