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Path paved by languages, inspirational interactions

Belgium’s new ambassador to Japan, Roxane de Bilderling, brings special linguistic insight to her post. A trained conference interpreter in English, Spanish and French, de Bilderling, who also speaks Dutch...

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

Good Coffee Farms Inc.’ Carlos Melen brewed fairer trade

When life gives you lemons, make lemonade. When life gives you coffee, build an empire. This has been the path of Good Coffee Farms Inc. (GCF) founder Carlos Melen. In...

ESG Talk

Shifts in consumer spending can drive ESG investing

Keiko Honda, who served as CEO and executive vice president of the World Bank Group’s Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency for seven years to 2019, promoted environmental, social and corporate governance...

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

【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…

「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…

History & Archives

Brand history & Archives

‘Gakumon no Susume’

'An Encouragement of Learning' Yukichi Fukuzawa, one of the leading educators of the Meiji Era and founder of Keio University, was a relative of Sueji Yamada, founder of The Japan...

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.

Education

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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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