Editorial: International law for sustainability in Arctic resource development

Since 2015, Arctic research in Japan has been enhanced and strengthened through the Arctic Challenge for Sustainability (ArCS), the Japanese government’s flagship research project for 2015–2020 (ArCS, 2019). [...]the interconnectedness amongst those factors represents both the challenge and the strength in envisioning effective Arctic social systems, including the international legal system for the Arctic. In the area of mineral resource development, the prevailing laws, both international and domestic, applicable to the issue is the law of the place where the activities are actually undertaken. [...]in this Special Issue, we have taken the examples from Greenland and the Yamal area of the Russian Federation as model cases for our international legal examination.