Archive 2021/03
Towards a better tomorrow
Experts on learning from the past to create a brighter future
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 dedicated to looking back – commemorating 10 years since the Great East Japan Earthquake – and forward to Japan’s exciting green future.
Lessons from the Great East Japan Earthquake
Partner content by the Government of Japan
Ten years after disaster struck, we report from Northeast Japan to hear how the area responded with gratitude to international aid and has made an impressive recovery.
Bright ideas
Christopher Grimes
The executive editor of Nikkei Asia asks whether Japan can innovate its way out of an energy and climate crisis.
A design for life
Manabu Chiba
The remarkable story of how ArchiAid, a group of architects formed by Manabu Chiba, came together to help rebuild the areas impacted by the Great East Japan Earthquake.
The local paths to net zero
Partner content by the Government of Japan
How local initiatives across Japan are leading the way to carbon neutrality by 2050.
Unlock: Tohoku
Area guide
Walking trails, sake breweries and memorial parks: your essential guide to Tohoku, an area that’s booming ten years after it was hit by natural disaster.
Fuel for thought
Eiji Ohira
The director general of the Fuel Cell and Hydrogen Group at the New Energy and Industrial Technology Development Organization on how it is paving the way for a renewable-fueled future.
Live and learn
Partner content by Nishimachi International School
How Nishimachi International School is nurturing tomorrow’s global citizens.
New power generation
Special report
Can Japan spearhead the green energy revolution? We profile four companies taking renewables to the next level and break down the country’s efforts so far in an exclusive infographic.
Playing safe
Hidekazu Kido
The Japan Sport Council’s National Stadium Service Division Manager tells Genya Aoki his plans to make the country’s showpiece arena Covid-secure.
ESG: Business for the Good of the World
PARTNER CONTENT BY KOMATSU/NYK LINE/RICOH/TORAY/TSUBAKIMOTO CHAIN/UCHIDA YOKOs
Naoya Hasegawa on how ESG (Environmental, Social, and Corporate Governance) is key to global business investment decisions, plus six Japanese companies share their plans for implementing ESG initiatives in their business strategies.
Working smarter
Kinya Tagawa
The head of international design agency Takram is already planning for a new world of work. He shares his plans with Io Kawauchi.
Engineering a better tomorrow
Digital society
Three Japanese welltech innovations looking to improve the way we all live featuring a personal trainer in your ear, a new mind gym and a very loveable robot.
Unlock: Kabuto-cho
Area guide
Exploring Tokyo’s answer to Wall Street from a Swedish coffee joint to a hotel whose rooms are works of art – literally.
Life through a lens
Katsumi Hirabayashi
One photographer’s ten-year mission to capture the impacts of the Great East Japan Earthquake and the efforts to rebuild.
Games changer
Keiichiro Yamamoto
NEC’s Senior Manager talks to Kaori Hori about the potential of facial-recognition systems to help save Tokyo’s Olympic and Paralympic Games.
Talking travel
Tourism
Hiroyuki Fushitani, Tomoe Makino and Takahiro Saito discuss the future of Japan’s tourism industry.
Dear Diary
Tatsuya Abe
The president of Health Tech Lab talks to Noriko Maniwa about how his Kenkou Nikki app could help combat Covid and allow for safe mass events in the future.
A different class
Kentaro Sugawa and Yoshihisa Tomonaga
The directors of Global Sky Education talk to Io Kawauchi about how virtual reality could help reshape Japan’s education system.
Changing schools
Akihiro Arai and Tetsuhiro Arai
Konosu City Board of Education members on the need for a quantum leap in Japan’s classrooms.
Etiquette guide
Digital society
Take a crash-course on the country’s culture from the comfort of your own phone, tablet or laptop.