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Much more than pyramids: Egypt builds the future

The Egyptian Embassy is easy to find in Tokyo. On a tree-lined street in Daikanyama, a grid of ornate metal latticework protects a driveway. The entrance is flanked by small...

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

Water-refill platform mymizu succeeds with fluid ideas

When Mariko McTier and her co-founder started the water-refilling platform mymizu four years ago, they were trying to change minds, but to do so, they didn’t go out and try...

ESG Talk

J. Front Retailing seeks both social and economic value

J. Front Retailing Co. launched a medium-term business plan in fiscal 2021, through February 2022, aiming to revive its business from the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic and returning itself...

Authentic green stories

ESG / SDGs

Yamanashi inn Esoto offers supreme sake and views

In the quiet neighborhood of Hakushu, in the Yamanashi Prefecture city of Hokuto, surrounded by mountains, rivers and rice fields, stands Esoto, a premium lodging facility in a traditional-style building...

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

「Destination Restaurants 2026」授賞式リポート

ジャパンタイムズが主催する「Destination Restaurants 2026」の授賞式が5月26日、東京・麻布台ヒルズの『Hills House Sky Room Café & Bar』で…

【JCOM】ケーブルテレビ運営から地域社会の課題解決を支援する企業へ

「J:COM」のブランド名で事業を展開するJCOMは、従来のケーブルテレビ事業にとどまらず、自社の事業資源を活用して地域社会や法人・自治体が抱える課題の解決を支援する社会インフラサービスへと事業を…

History & Archives

Brand history & Archives

Visual artists flourished overseas in turmoil of ’60s, ’70s

Postwar Japan saw a flourishing of visual artists, starting with the ideological and political upheavals of the ’60s and ’70s. Not unlike Japan’s film masters, many of Japan’s most well-known...

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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