AP Bank is a Japanese
non-profit organization dedicated to
renewable energy and environmental projects, founded in 2003. AP Bank's seed money was provided by
record producer Takeshi Kobayashi, musician
Kazutoshi Sakurai and composer and musician
Ryuichi Sakamoto. It channels its finance to small-scale sustainable projects that would otherwise struggle to receive loan funding. Beneficiaries have ranged from a recycling program in the far south of
Kyushu,
Japan, to the construction of an eco-resort in the Marshall Islands.