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Exceptional skills, passion needed to sell luxury goods

A 2017 report released by Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu Ltd. on luxury consumers identified two major interrelated trends for the year. The first shows how the essence of luxury is moving...

Unraveling Japanese companies

JCOM expands from cable to social infrastructure

JCOM Co. Ltd. aims to transform its business by moving beyond its original cable television operations in a nearly saturated market and expanding into social infrastructure services that use its...

Roundtable

U.N.U. Mahesti Okitasari – Sustainability needs not uniformity but coherence

Growing up in an “informal settlement” in Indonesia, an urban village community that formed organically with unplanned spatial layouts and self-help housing, Mahesti Okitasari, now a research associate at the...

ESG Talk

Japan’s regions offer models for world sustainability

For the goal of making Japan carbon neutral by 2050, the Ministry of the Environment is supporting regional efforts through measures including legislation and subsidies. Tokutaro Nakai, vice minister of...

Authentic green stories

ESG / SDGs

NRI calls for national discussions on updating SDGs

As the 2030 deadline for the United Nations’ sustainable development goals approaches, the Nomura Research Institute has called for nationwide discussions on the goals focusing on what Japan and the...

Satoyama~Authentic Japan

Yamagata documentary festival enlightens global audiences

The Yamagata International Documentary Film Festival began in 1989 as an event to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the establishment of the city of Yamagata, which last year was chosen...

日本語記事

日本のガストロノミー・ツーリズムの起爆剤となる試み。

地方のレストランに特化し、毎年10軒を選びリスト化する取り組み「Destination Restaurants 2026」(主催:ジャパンタイムズ)も今年で6回目を迎えた。5月26日、東京・麻布台…

【豊田通商】脱炭素を勝機に変えた総合商社

TOYOTA TSUSHO's Strong Point 1.CDP「Aリスト」2025年版で、前年に続き2年連続トリプルA企業に選定 2.7大商社で唯一「SBT認定」を取得し、サステナビリ…

History & Archives

Brand history & Archives

1967: Wife of Wright seeks to save the Imperial

On Oct. 22, 1967, when Frank Lloyd Wright's last wife, Olgivanna, came to Japan to appeal for the preservation of the Imperial Hotel, a Japan Times reporter asked why she...

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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