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PRESS / Events
Mar 26, 2021

Designing sustainable workplace environments with a multicultural perspective

The Japan Times Cube Co., Ltd. (representative director: Minako Suematsu) launched Roundtable by The Japan Times, a series of talk events that will be broadcast in Japan.
Mar 26, 2021

Designing sustainable workplace environments with a multicultural perspective -Roundtable: Sustainability with Ross Rowbury -

The Japan Times Cube Co., Ltd. (representative director: Minako Suematsu) launched Roundtable by The Japan Times, a series of talk events that will be broadcast in Japan.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Jan 23, 2021

A year later, the first post-pandemic city

The long months of harsh lockdown have faded from view in Wuhan, the first city in the world devastated by the new coronavirus.
Japan Times
PRESS / Events
Nov 13, 2020

Roundtable: Sustainability with Ross Rowbury

The Japan Times Cube Co., Ltd. (representative director: Minako Suematsu) launched Roundtable by The Japan Times, a series of talk events that will be broadcast in Japan.
Japan Times
Nov 13, 2020

Roundtable: Sustainability with Ross Rowbury

The Japan Times Cube Co., Ltd. (representative director: Minako Suematsu) launched Roundtable by The Japan Times, a series of talk events that will be broadcast in Japan.
PODCAST / deep dive
May 14, 2020

Episode 49: Hospitalized, discharged and out the other side?

As the coronavirus shows some signs of slowing in Japan — for now at least — Japan Times staff writer Ryusei Takahashi talks with people hospitalized with COVID-19 in Japan.
Japan Times
PRESS / Events
Sep 13, 2018

中国5県地域おこし協力隊研修会・神石高原町ふるさと回帰塾申し込み受付中

Japan Times Satoyama 推進コンソーシアム(代表:末松弥奈子、株式会社ジャパンタイムズ・代表取締役会長)は中国地方知事会、神石高原町と共催し、10月20日(土)、21日(日)に『Japan Times Satoyama 推進コンソーシアム実践者交流会2018・中国5県地域おこし協力隊研修会・神石高原町ふるさと回帰塾』を開催します。...
Japan Times
PRESS / Services
Sep 5, 2017

2017年の大学入試でジャパンタイムズの記事が106校で採用

 株式会社ジャパンタイムズ(本社:東京都港区、代表取締役社長:堤丈晴)は、2017年度の大学入試で使用された英字記事の出題数および採用校数を発表しました。
COMMENTARY / World / THE VIEW FROM NEW YORK
Sep 1, 2014

U.S. media coverage reveals a pro-Israel bias

Imagine Boston, including its coast, hemmed in by a relentlessly hostile superior power ready to attack it anytime from air, land and sea. Boston is about a third of the Gaza Strip in land area, but the same in population density.
Japan Times
OLYMPICS
Aug 28, 2014

Nearly 50 years on, Bradley recalls 1964 Tokyo Games

As Bill Bradley remembers an unforgettable time in a life filled with extraordinary accomplishments, national pride as a collective experience remains a cherished memory from the 1964 Tokyo Olympics.
WORLD
Sep 29, 2013

NSA gathers data on U.S. citizens' social connections: report

The National Security Agency began mining Americans' email and phone data in 2010 to map out their social connections and locations, according to The New York Times.
Japan Times
ENVIRONMENT
Aug 1, 2007

Taiji officials: Dolphin meat 'toxic waste'

For what is believed to be the first time anywhere in Japan, elected officials have openly condemned the consumption of dolphin meat, especially in school lunches, on grounds that it is dangerously contaminated with mercury.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / CLOSE-UP
Jun 1, 2003

Looking back on a 'rudderless' land

In the four years since Howard French took the helm as The New York Times' Tokyo bureau chief, he has witnessed -- and covered -- the rise of Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi, the fall of his former foreign minister, Makiko Tanaka, the scandalous accident at the uranium-processing facility in the village...
Japan Times
WORLD
Mar 26, 2023

Stolen valor: The U.S. volunteers in Ukraine who lie, waste and bicker

People who would not be allowed anywhere near the battlefield in a U.S.-led war are active on the Ukrainian front, with ready access to American weapons.
PRESS / Events
Mar 22, 2023

“Guiding corporate leaders in diversity and equity for innovation (DEI)” with Jackie F. Steele

The Japan Times Cube Inc. (representative director: Minako Suematsu) launched Roundtable by The Japan Times, a series of talk events broadcasted in Japan.
Japan Times
PRESS / Events
Mar 3, 2023

“Combining climate action and diplomacy with a love of nature” with Carole Fuchs

The Japan Times Cube Inc. (representative director: Minako Suematsu) launched Roundtable by The Japan Times, a series of talk events broadcasted in Japan.
Japan Times
PODCAST / deep dive
Feb 15, 2023

Living with disaster: Building the cities of the future

We speak to professor Hitoshi Abe, an architect who has some ideas on how to start designing our cities to better deal with such inevitable disasters.
PRESS / Events
Feb 14, 2023

“Developing a sustainable protein through cellular agriculture” with Yuki Hanyu

“Updated with revisions on 17 February, 2023”
Japan Times
PODCAST / deep dive
Jan 25, 2023

Japan on a plate: Our food critic reveals his favorite spots

Food writer Robbie Swinnerton has been covering Tokyo’s culinary scene for decades, so for this week’s episode we asked him to pick out a few standout meals from last year.
Japan Times
LIFE / Food & Drink
Jan 10, 2023

Noma, rated the world’s best restaurant, is closing its doors

Is the end of Rene Redzepi's acclaimed restaurant the canary in fine dining's coal mine?
Japan Times
WORLD / Politics
Jan 1, 2023

The ‘red wave’ washout: How skewed polls fed a false U.S. election narrative

Coupled with the political factors already favoring Republicans, biased polls earlier this year helped feed an ultimately false narrative: A Republican wave was about to hit the U.S.
Japan Times
WORLD / Politics
Dec 22, 2022

Trump’s taxes: Red flags, big losses and a windfall from his father

The congressional Joint Committee on Taxation reviewed the Trump returns and found dozens of red flags that it believed required further investigation.
Japan Times
PODCAST / deep dive
Dec 21, 2022

Culture in 2022: Good books, outdoor art and 'Tokyo Vice'

Culture editor Alyssa I. Smith talks to culture critic Thu-Huong Ha about the books they read, the festivals they went to and how Japanese stories are currently capturing Hollywood's attention.
Japan Times
WORLD
Dec 18, 2022

‘This isn’t war. It’s the destruction of the Russian people by their own commanders.’

Russia has been at war most of the year, yet its army seems less prepared than ever.
Japan Times
PODCAST / deep dive
Nov 30, 2022

How making alcohol from trees could give rural Japan a buzz

Alex K.T. Martin joins us to talk about the science — and sustainable process — behind the process that may bring cedar, oak and sakura to your next cocktail session.
Japan Times
PODCAST / deep dive
Nov 24, 2022

Is Japan the model for Elon Musk's Twitter?

Elizabeth Beattie explains how the social media platform's Japan team has been affected since Elon Musk's purchase of Twitter.
Japan Times
PODCAST / deep dive
Nov 16, 2022

Samurai Blues: The J. League, the World Cup and Japan’s place in global soccer

Sports writer Dan Orlowitz joins the show to catch us up on where Japan stands in the global soccer landscape and the controversies swirling around the host nation of Qatar.
Japan Times
PODCAST / deep dive
Nov 2, 2022

Hey Japan, are you happy?

Deep Dive explores whether the Japanese are content or not with the help of Alex K.T. Marin, who has written several features on the polls and surveys of happiness.
PODCAST / deep dive
Oct 5, 2022

Deep Dive is back! And the climate crisis is still a problem.

Oscar Boyd, Hanae Takahashi and Eric Margolis join new Deep Dive host Shaun McKenna to talk about how people in Japan get their climate news and what we need to do as citizens to aid in the fight.
Japan Times
WORLD
Sep 18, 2022

Ukraine's Donbas, where Putin sowed the seeds of war

In the Donbas region, everything suddenly fell apart. This was part of Putin's grand plan, and it helped lay the groundwork for the invasion of Ukraine. Now things are heating up again.

Longform

Visitors walk past Sou Fujimoto's Grand Ring, which has been recognized as the largest wooden structure in the world.
Can a World Expo still matter? Japan is about to find out.