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Blue Leaf Microgreens: Big impact from urban farm

They say good things come in small packages. It perhaps follows that the very best things are the smallest — micro, even. Microgreens, harvested just as the first leaves emerge...

ESG Talk

Keio University draws new generation to build society

With Japan facing the challenges of a declining population and a prolonged economic slump, the president of Keio University said the university must accelerate building a globally attractive educational environment...

Roundtable

TELL leaders discuss mental challenges in COVID era

Note: This story discusses mental troubles and suicide. The word “health” generally conjures images of clean eating and regular exercise. But beyond physical health, mental health is an often-neglected facet...

Unraveling Japanese companies

For MS&AD Insurance, sustainability is existential issue

For non-life insurance companies, sustainability is a pressing issue to address rather than merely a topic promoted to appeal to stakeholders, especially as the industry faces growing uncertainty from demographic...

Authentic green stories

ESG / SDGs

Digital transformation reshapes urban planning involving public

The Land Readjustment and Urban Development Forum held in Tokyo last October brought together professionals from municipalities, academia and the private sector to examine digital transformation in community development. Themed...

Satoyama~Authentic Japan

Auberge Eaufeu

‘New cuisine’ in former school Auberge Eaufeu is located on a site endowed with underground water from Mount Hakusan. The town’s industries include rice growing and production of Nikka stone....

日本語記事

DXで変わる都市計画、住民参加型のまちづくりへ

「区画整理と街づくりフォーラム」が昨年10月に東京で開催された。テーマは「区画整理とデジタルトランスフォーメーション(DX)-事前防災・合意形成からエリアマネジメントまで」。土地区画整理事業や街づ…

【ファームレストラン クオーレ】新鮮な羊肉を堪能できる農場併設のレストラン。

北海道白糠郡白糠町は釧路空港から車で約20分。北海道の先住民族であるアイヌの文化が深く根付く地域だ。町内にはアイヌ伝統文化の保存伝承活動とともに、文化交流、国際交流、情報発信の場として、アイヌ文化…

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.

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Events

【November 5, 2024】Special Evening Roundtable

Tuesday, November 5, 2024, 18:00 to 21:00 JST

Vickie Skorjie & Bill Cleary

#42 Roundtable

Date: Friday, September 13, 2024 Time: 2:00PM to 3:00PM

Carlos Melen

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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