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Green light

Illuminating ideas bringing the UN’s
Sustainable Development Goals to life

Unlock The Real Japan combines Nikkei Asia’s renowned insight into the business world with Time Out Tokyo’s knowledge of city life, ensuring that visiting executives can experience all sides of Japan.

This special site looks at the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), urgent calls for action issued by the UN with a target of completing them by 2030. With seven years to go there is work to do, and on this site we highlight Japan’s approach to doing so. Some of the ideas we’ve featured, such as the sustainable approach at Ise Grand Shrine, have been centuries in the making. Others, including Taku Yamada’s plans to reimagine tourism are much newer. All are essential if we are to achieve the kind of world we want to live in.

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A virtuous circle

A virtuous circle

Ise Grand Shrine

Ise Grand Shrine’s history of sustainability

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The natural solution

The natural solution

Yasushi Ogawa

Japan’s only physician of Tibetan medicine on improving wellbeing

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All better

All better

Osamu Kunii

How the Japanese-led GHIT Fund is making a global difference to health

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An equal chance

An equal chance

Yukiko Ozaki

Can Japan reduce inequalities in the workplace?

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Travel plans

Travel plans

Taku Yamada

Using tourism to make communities more sustainable

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Good clean fun

Good clean fun

Gion Matsuri

How a Japanese festival is working towards responsible consumption

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Ready for anything

Ready for anything

Tadayuki Sato

New products designed to help you prepare for the worst

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Etiquette guide 5

Etiquette guide

Gift giving

How to give business gifts the Japanese way

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