Welcome to Mekong Watch

Mekong Watch is a Japanese NGO based in Tokyo. We combine research and advocacy to address and prevent negative environmental and social impacts of development in the Mekong Region. We are especially concerned about the lack of consultation with affected communities in development planning and implementation and the role of Japanese financing. By contacting communities directly, we try to bridge the information and communication gaps between them and decision-makers in Japan.

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What's New!

• (February 20, 2026)【Joint Statement】
  The Japanese Government Must Not Provide Public Financial Support for U.S. Fossil Fuel Infrastructure as a Bargaining Chip for Trump
  
• (February 13, 2026)【Petition】
  Do Not Support the Tangguh LNG Expansion Plans in West Papua, Indonesia
  
• (December 19, 2025)【Press Release】
  Civil society demands JICA to halt its considerations on providing an ODA loan to the construction of the O Mon 3 gas-fired power plant in Vietnam
  
• (December 19, 2025)【Open Letter】
  JICA, No Loan to the Construction of O Mon 3 gas-fired power plant in Vietnam - Don’t Exacerbate the Climate Crisis!
  
• (November 11, 2025)【Press Release】
  Japanese payment company JCB's silence over Myanmar military-linked crony bank draws civil society criticism
  
• (October 6, 2025)【Request Letter】
  The Japanese government should lead international efforts to prevent the junta's sham election and strengthen its support for Myanmar people's struggle to establish a genuine federal democracy
  
• (September 1, 2025)【Open Letter】
  Myanmar civil society welcomes Japan's rejection of junta's sham election, urges further principled action
  
• (July 30, 2025)【Press Release】
  Thai version now available - video on methane emissions from LNG lifecycle
  
• (July 8, 2025)【Press Release】
  Three Japanese investors have cut ties with Shwe Than Lwin - Japanese public-private funds and JIB must be transparent and responsible in their exit from Myanmar media project tied to military crony network
  
• (June 30, 2025)【Press Release】
  Criticism was raised at the ENEOS annual general meeting over its huge net-zero target year postponement - Environmental NGOs urged ENEOS to stop the Papua LNG project -
  
• (June 23, 2025)【Press Release】
  18 global insurers and 10 banks have excluded the Alaska LNG from their support - Environmental NGOs urged Tokio Marine to comply its policy at the annual general meeting -
  
• (May 15, 2025)【Joint Statement】
  JICA must stop the loan disbursement now and ascertain the corruption in Bangladesh's coal project - Bangladesh agency's senior official indicted due to a massive embezzlement in Japan's ODA Project
  
• (May 14, 2025)【Press Release】
  Japanese companies, government insurer and investment corporation urged to responsibly exit from Myanmar port project linked to sanctioned military conglomerate
  
• (February 20, 2025)【Joint Statement】
  Unfeasible; the promotion of the Alaska LNG development agreed at the Japan-US Summit, three major Japanese non-life insurers have already excluded Arctic gas drilling from their insurance underwriting
  
• (Posted on the Bangkok Post, November 26, 2024)【Opinion】
  End Japan's loans to Myanmar's tatmadaw
  
• (October 28, 2024)【Press Release】
  Institutional investors conduct climate change engagement with SOMPO after being encouraged by environmental NGOs
  
• (September 30, 2024)【Letter of Request】
  Dear Bondholders of Japan Bank for International Cooperation (JBIC), Request to engage with JBIC to stop financing new fossil fuel projects
  
• (September 5, 2024)【Joint Statement】
  Local company official and others arrested for corruption in ODA coal-fired power project in Bangladesh -JICA should immediately investigate the situation and suspend the loan-
  
• (August 28, 2024)【Letter of Request】
  Request to engage with SOMPO to stop underwriting new fossil fuel projects
  
• (July 10, 2024)【Press Release】
  Myanmar pearl company TASAKI and investors risk complicity in Myanmar military junta's international crimes - TASAKI must responsibly end all business with the sanctioned entity Myanmar Pearl Enterprise
  
• (July 9, 2024)【Joint Statement】
  Violation of G7 Agreement! We Condemn JBIC's Lending Decision to Provide Support for Vietnam's Block B-O Mon Project (Upstream and Midstream)
  
• (June 11, 2024)【Inqiry】
  Inquiry regarding human rights due diligence in relation to TASAKI's business partnership with sanctioned entity Myanmar Pearls Enterprise
  
• (June 11, 2024)【Inqiry】
  Inquiry regarding TASAKI's business partnership with sanctioned entity Myanmar Pearls Enterprise
  
• (June 4, 2024)【Joint Statement】
  NGOs strongly condemn decision by Japan Bank for International Cooperation (JBIC) to finance Woodside Energy, the Australian gas extraction giant - Over USD 28 billion has been financed for fossil fuel projects since the G7 Elmau Commitment -
  
• (April 9, 2024)【Joint Statement】
  Prime Minister Kishida should cooperate with the US and the Philippines for true decarbonization
  
• (April 8, 2024)【Joint Statement】
  For Vietnam's Block B-O Mon Project, We Demand Retraction of FID by Mitsui & Co. and JOGMEC's FID and Loan Guarantee Decision
  
• (March 29, 2024)【Joint Statement】
  NGOs Strongly Condemn Decision by Japan Bank for International Cooperation(JBIC) and Citibank to finance two gas-fired power projects in Mexico
  
• (March 28, 2024)【Joint Statement】
  NGOs urge Japanese financial institutions to stop developing/supporting the Scarborough gas field in Australia
  
• (January 25, 2024)【Joint Statement】
  JBIC financing for two gas power projects in Mexico would violate the G7 agreement - JBIC, NEXI and private banks should stop consideration immediately -