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Mar 28, 2025
The Japan Times Boarding & International School Day 2025 ~Elementary school to High School~
The Japan Times is excited to announce the second Boarding & International School Day, on Sunday, April 20, 2025. Boarding and international schools in Japan have been carving out new educational paths for students in recent years. They can provide an internationally enriched environment from an early...
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Oct 1, 2024
TELLing the story: Emotional wellness and integral wellbeing for those living in Japan
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Aug 16, 2024
Japan Times revamps Android mobile app
This week we released a major upgrade of our mobile app.
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Aug 16, 2024
Japan Times revamps iOS mobile app
This week we released a major upgrade of our mobile app.
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Oct 23, 2023
The Japan Times wins two gold at WAN-IFRA Asia Media Awards 2023
The Japan Times, Ltd. (Chairperson, Publisher and President: Minako Suematsu) is a double Gold award winner (small-medium company category) in the World Association of News Publishers (WAN-IFRA) Asia Media Awards 2023.
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Mar 22, 2021
The Japan Times changes tagline for the first time in 65 years
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Mar 20, 2020
To our readers: Internal review of ‘comfort women’ and ‘wartime labor’ descriptions
In November 2018, The Japan Times published an Editor’s Note announcing the paper’s decision to change its description of “comfort women” and “forced labor.”
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Dec 6, 2018
Message from the Executive Editor
In the Friday Nov. 30 issue of The Japan Times, we published an Editor’s Note on our language regarding “comfort women” and “forced labor.”
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Jul 19, 2018
Japan Times charity drive for flooded areas of western Japan
The Japan Times has started a charity drive to raise money for people in flood-affected areas in western Japan.
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Feb 15, 2018
Trust has to be earned
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Dec 20, 2017
Regarding the Dec. 20 misprint of NYT
Due to a New York Times’ production error, the front page and page 5 of the Dec. 12 edition were duplicated in the Dec. 20 edition of The New York Times International Edition that was distributed in Japan by The Japan Times.
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Jun 20, 2017
The Japan Times joins the News2u Group
The Japan Times has become a News2u Group firm to strengthen its presence in the rapidly changing media industry.
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