After witnessing the quiet vanishing of Japanese artisanship over two decades, former tour company founder Steve Beimel, a longtime admirer of Japanese crafts, realized something needed to be done to...
With the continuing rise of artificial intelligence technologies, the digital marketing firm Netyear Group Corp. announced last year that it would fully shift to generative AI in its services. “When...
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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...
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Yamagata, the city selected in 2025 as the first Destination Region — a Japanese municipality The Japan Times wishes to tell the world about — is home to the first...
人工知能（AI）技術の進展を背景に、デジタルマーケティングを手がけるネットイヤーグループは昨年、生成AIを事業の中核に据える方針を打ち出した。 「私が約2年前に社長に就任した当時、生成AIが今後拡大する時期だったが、『これからはすべての経営資源を生成AIに…
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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...
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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...
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