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A store is a ballet stage: LVMH Japan head

Norbert Leuret’s passion for elevating the luxury brand retail experience is palpable. Every aspect of a store is an integral part of the total package, from the window display and...

Unraveling Japanese companies

Sompo looks beyond insurance to focus on well-being

The Sompo group values its roots as a fire brigade established more than a century ago in Tokyo, and its ethic of rushing first to where people need help still...

Roundtable

Sailors for the Sea Japan charts conservation course

Sailors for the Sea Japan Chair and CEO Minako Iue established the group in 2011 as an affiliate of the ocean conservation NGO Sailors for the Sea. | Yuico Taiya...

ESG Talk

For NRI Group, ESG awareness starts with whole staff

In 2019, Nomura Research Institute Ltd. formulated a medium-term business plan through fiscal 2022, pledging to promote “sustainability management policy” to achieve growth for the group and at the same...

Authentic green stories

ESG / SDGs

Tottori Flower Garden opens at Japan health institute

A new Tottori Flower Garden has opened within the International Garden of the Japan Institute for Health and Safety (JIHS) in Tokyo’s Shinjuku area. An opening ceremony was held on...

Satoyama~Authentic Japan

Uchiko mayor discusses preservation and development

Uchiko is a town of 14,000 people encompassing what once were three towns that merged 21 years ago, making it rather large, at nearly 300 square kilometers, and diverse in...

日本語記事

世界的な逆風が吹くなかでフカヒレ料理を作る意義。

ジャパンタイムズが主催する「Destination Restaurants」は、その選定基準のひとつとして、食を通じて地方創生に貢献できるかということも見ている。そこには自然を含めた周囲の環境と、…

食で震災復興を目指す、気仙沼の中国料理店。

今年「Destination Restaurants」に選出された10店から、2026年を代表する1店「The Destination Restaurant of the Year 2026」に満…

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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