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Carlos Donderis bridges work cultures at Mercari

After a 10-day visit 13 years ago, Spaniard Carlos Donderis decided he wanted to live in Japan. He had been working as a programmer, and determined that in order to...

Unraveling Japanese companies

Muratec builds sustainability into factories, logistics

Murata Machinery, building on its base of industrial automation technologies, is contributing to global sustainability at a time when an endless list of large AI data center projects are boosting...

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

ESG investing gains ever more momentum in Japan

While working for the Ministry of Finance, Hideki Takada launched the Green Finance Network Japan in September 2018. Starting with just a few members, the group’s activities grew fast as...

Authentic green stories

ESG / SDGs

JWLI Women’s Fund opens new possibilities for women leaders

Japan has long ranked last among the Group of Seven nations in the World Economic Forum’s Global Gender Gap Index. In 2026, it placed 117th out of 145 countries, with...

Satoyama~Authentic Japan

How the mail reaches even remote Seto citrus island

Shikoku, the fourth-largest island in the Japanese archipelago and home to four prefectures, is surrounded by more than 600 scattered islands, most of which are in the Seto Inland Sea....

日本語記事

【村田機械】自動化技術のさらなる進化で、サステナビリティへの貢献を目指す

自動化技術を事業の柱とする村田機械は、人工知能(AI)の普及で半導体需要が拡大し、世界各地で大規模なデータセンター建設が相次ぐ今、持続可能な社会の実現に貢献している。 データセンターの急増で電力需…

サントリー、統合的な水資源管理に向け企業や地域と連携

熊本市とその周辺10市町村は、約100万人の住民が使う水道水のほぼすべてを地下水でまかなう日本でも珍しい地域だ。古代の阿蘇山の噴火によって降り積もった火砕流堆積物が、水を通しやすい土壌を形成した。…

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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