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SEGO Initiative creates connections in Kanagawa

Serendipity flows like a current through Alana Bonzi’s life, gently leading the environmentalist and educator to places and people where she feels at home. Her love for nature and a...

Unraveling Japanese companies

Sompo looks beyond insurance to focus on well-being

The Sompo group values its roots as a fire brigade established more than a century ago in Tokyo, and its ethic of rushing first to where people need help still...

Roundtable

IGES: Preserving biodiversity with science, foreteller insects

How blind are we to things too big to see directly? Take the environment — why should people care? Our muddled perceptions can make it grueling to find the right...

ESG Talk

How electronics giant NEC turned a crisis into society-leading strategy

Facing crisis a decade ago, electronics giant NEC Corp. sought once again to define the social significance of its business. Since Japanese firms’ top market shares in the fields of...

Authentic green stories

ESG / SDGs

Seminar discusses increasing green transition finance

As the world faces the challenge of global warming, it is increasingly urgent to reduce carbon dioxide emissions across the board. At a June 4 seminar in Tokyo on green...

Satoyama~Authentic Japan

Necchu Elementary School builds thriving communities via learning

As many rural communities across Japan grapple with population decline and aging, new ways to sustain local vitality are increasingly needed. One organization believes the answer begins with learning. Necchu...

日本語記事

受賞シェフに手渡されるのは復興を目指す輪島塗の盾。

ジャパンタイムズが主催する「Destination Restaurants」では毎年、表彰式で受賞者に店名と名前入りの盾を贈っている。今年は2024年元日に起きた能登半島地震への復興支援を兼ね、石…

世界的な逆風が吹くなかでフカヒレ料理を作る意義。

ジャパンタイムズが主催する「Destination Restaurants」は、その選定基準のひとつとして、食を通じて地方創生に貢献できるかということも見ている。そこには自然を含めた周囲の環境と、…

History & Archives

Brand history & Archives

Lacquer artisans add layers to 1,000 years of tradition

A craft preserved from ancient times, lacquering is one of Japan's representative arts, so much so that "japanning" became a word in English for similar lacquerwork. In 1955, the artisan...

125 years of history

Our beginnings

The first issue of The Japan Times was published on March 22, 1897. The leading founders were President Sueji Yamada and Editor-in-Chief Motosada Zumoto, a former executive secretary to Prime Minister Hirobumi Ito.

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Awards

Sustainable Japan Awards

We are pleased to announce the winners of the fifth annual Sustainable Japan Award.

Our goal is to commend individuals, companies, and organizations who have made advances in sustainable efforts, and we hope to convey their activities both domestically and internationally.

Destination Restaurants Awards

Destination Restaurants now has 50 on the map

Presented by The Japan Times since 2021, Destination Restaurants seeks out Japan’s best restaurants beyond big cities, selected by Japanese experts with international diners in mind...

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