Archive 2021/07
Developing a sustainable future
The people helping Japan make
the SDGs a reality
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 life in Japan.
This special site is inspired by the United Nations’ sustainable development goals (SDGs), a set of 17 global aims that UN member states resolved to achieve by 2030. These goals, which include ending extreme poverty, fostering peaceful and inclusive societies, and taking urgent action on climate change, are described by the UN as a “plan of action for people, planet and prosperity”.
Tokyo 2020 > Osaka, Kansai 2025
Partner content by The Government of Japan
What can Osaka, Kansai Expo 2025 learn from The 2020 Olympic and Paralympic Games?
UNLOCK: Greater Osaka
Area Guide
Take in the best of the diverse Greater Osaka region: from historical Kyoto to the charming Hyogo prefecture.
Dubai 2020 > Osaka, Kansai 2025
Partner content by The Government of Japan
What can Osaka, Kansai Expo 2025 learn from its predecessor, Dubai 2020?
Sustainable futures
Yoichi Ochiai
How the pioneering digital artist and computer scientist is thinking about sustainability in bold new ways
The originator
Shibusawa Eiichi
The story of the man who set sustainability goals for Japan a century ago
Funny business
Takayuki Oinuma
The founder of Laugh & Peace Mother on using laughter to help kids learn
Future food
Hirotaka Tanaka and Akiko Okada
The authors of a new book on food tech on the innovations changing the way Japan cooks and eats
Chemical reaction
Hiroshi Fukushima
The senior managing officer of the Iwatani Corporation on the formation of the Japan Hydrogen Association
Etiquette guide
Working hours
All you need to know about time on and time off in the Japanese workplace
Without equals
Fumino Sugiyama
The trans rights activist on how Japan’s politicians need to act now on gender equality
Life through a lens
Masaaki Kasuga and Herbie Yamaguchi
Two great chroniclers of the Japanese capital show Tokyo’s development between two Olympic Games