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JapanCraft21 works to preserve disappearing crafts

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...

Unraveling Japanese companies

Digital marketer Netyear zeros in on generative AI

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...

Roundtable

Monitoring corporate climate policy influence

Among Monica Nagashima’s many ambitions as the climate think tank InfluenceMap’s Japan country manager, one is to eventually not have to explain what “policy influencing” actually is. Founded in London...

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

Family business heirs pitch ideas at Atotsugi Koshien

Small and medium-size enterprises (SMEs), which account for about 99% of all companies in Japan, play a vital role in supporting the economy as providers of employment and technological expertise....

Satoyama~Authentic Japan

Yamagata Symphony Orchestra plays part in community synergy

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...

日本語記事

【リョービ】アルミダイカスト業界で挑戦を続ける

リョービグループは、「パーパス」という概念が今日の経営において一般的になる以前から企業理念を確立しており、その信条は何十年にもわたり事業の方向性を示してきた。 日本の大手ダイカスト企業リョービの企…

【大和ハウス工業】7つのゼロを掲げ、総合力で環境に挑む

Daiwa House’s strong points 1.CDP「Aリスト」2025年版で、世界27社のトリプルA企業の1社に選定 2.CO2削減や森林、水、資源など7項目で「環境負荷“ゼ…

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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