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Leaders & Readers

Less is more in sustainability for Swedish ambassador

Inspired by the pivotal events surrounding the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989, Viktoria Li decided to reset the direction of her life. Despite the legal career mapped out...

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

Ishii Iron Works remakes self for workers, new energy

Looking to take a longer-term perspective for its employees, Ishii Iron Works Co. Ltd. decided to delist its shares last year, the second year of the current president’s term and...

Authentic green stories

ESG / SDGs

Event weighs private equity’s role in environmental and social issues

Facing increasingly complex environmental, social and business issues, society needs multifaceted approaches to solutions. To discuss how to address these issues, private equity firms, lawyers and next-generation sustainability experts gathered...

Satoyama~Authentic Japan

Mauvaise herbe

French restaurant explores Okinawan ingredients The enigmatic French restaurant Mauvaise herbe keeps its phone number and address unlisted, disclosing its location in the Okinawa city of Uruma only after a...

日本語記事

【ひまわり食堂2】新しい“美⾷の地”富⼭県の個性派イタリアン。

今年「Destination Restaurants」に選出された10 店から、2025 年を代表する1 店である「The Destination Restaurant of the Year 2…

「Destination Restaurants 2025」審査会では何が語られたか?

2月上旬、ジャパンタイムズ本社(東京都千代田区)にて、5回目を迎える「Destination Restaurants 2025」の選考会が行われた。今年も引き続き、審査員は辻芳樹、本田直之、浜田岳…

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

The Japan Times Boarding & International School Day 2025

Sunday, April 20, 10:30 am - 4:00 pm

【November 5, 2024】Special Evening Roundtable

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

Vickie Skorjie & Bill Cleary

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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