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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
持続可能な開発目標(SDGs)の達成期限とされる2030年が近づくなか、野村総合研究所(NRI)は、日本と世界が次に何をすべきかに焦点を当てた全国的な議論を呼びかけている。SDGsの次なる国際目標の形成を見据え、NRIは今年、産官学の専門家に呼びかけ、日本…
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…
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…
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...
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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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...