Osaka, Japan is a modest city of 2.7 million citizens that enjoy a GDP of $71,000, the highest in all of Asia. This prosperous city landed on top by planning for the future, and while it has made leaps on all things sustainable, the most notable is waste collection, sanitation infrastructure, and electric cars.
Osaka lives by its slogan, “Environment is the Key to the Future”, and has some of the strongest water sustainability policies in the world. The citizens live eco-consciously, and teachers who work in Osaka get to enjoy the second largest transportation system in Asia.