The Sustainable Cosmetics Award 2025 ceremony took place on 20 March in Tokyo. The 2025 edition highlighted the best of 2025’s sustainable cosmetic Japanese products that combine traditional...
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The Sustainable Cosmetics Award 2025 ceremony took place on 20 March in Tokyo. The 2025 edition highlighted the best of 2025’s sustainable cosmetic Japanese products that combine traditional...
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Yokohama has always been a city in conversation with water. It faces Tokyo Bay, where the port shaped its modern identity, and it is laced with rivers that run past schools, parks and shopping streets. Yet this close relationship with water has also...
Shin-Mirai Co., Ltd. is a company focused on sustainable forest management, and they have announced a new nature positive project at Nasu Senbonmatsu Ranch in Tochigi Prefecture. It would integrates forest maintenance, biodiversity research, and...
Kyoto City is leveraging its history, culture, and a deep-rooted sense of “Shimatsu-no-kokoro”—a spirit of mindful frugality and respect for resources—to lead the transition to a circular economy. It aims to forge a new urban future...
In 2025, Japan’s Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI) published a guide titled “Guide for Promoting CE Commerce Businesses”, outlining strategies to promote CE (Circular Economy) Commerce among businesses. It reinforces Japan’s Circular...
Sake, known in Japan as nihonshu (literally “Japanese alcohol”), is familiar to fans of fine beverages worldwide. Sake is brewed from rice, water, koji (a fermentation starter), and yeast. The process is complex, transforming starch into sugar and...
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