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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

H₂O giant Suntory explores advancing with hydrogen

The beverage giant Suntory Holdings Ltd., together with nine other companies and Yamanashi Prefecture, held a ceremony on Oct. 11 to mark the start of a demonstration experiment at a...

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

【レストラン カム】観光資源のない郊外で地元支持を集める名店。

経済的低迷を続ける日本では“日本人のガストロノミー・レストラン離れ”の傾向が続いている。実際、ジャパンタイムズが選出する「Destination Restaurants」でも、ほとんどの店で年々、…

【くるますし】愛媛県の魚介類を包丁技で別次元の寿司に。

今年で5年目を迎えたるジャパンタイムズ主催の「Destination Restaurants 2025」の一軒に、愛媛県松山市にある『くるますし』が選出された。実は今まで、四国地方から同賞の受賞は…

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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