En-japan inc. is one of the largest companies that offers career-change services for jobseekers in Japan. The company has made public it will support a nonprofit organization called ‘International Medical Volunteers Japan Heart’. Japan Heart is an...
NEUVE・A Co., Ltd. is a Japanese company in the fashion industry. The company has launched a new repair shop at Shibuya Parco, a giant shopping complex in Tokyo, called ‘Re⇆STOCK.’ Re⇆STOCK is not just a repair shop that will fix broken or worn out...
Goto is a city in Nagasaki prefecture, consisting of 11 inhabited and 52 uninhabited islands. The city is in the westernmost area of the Kyushu Island; almost 1,000 kilometers west from Tokyo. T-Point Japan co. ltd., a Japanese company engaged in...
Kentucky Fried Chicken Japan Ltd. (subsidiary of KFC Holdings Japan Ltd.) has announced it will start providing food from its menu to food bank in Yokohama, south of Tokyo, from November 2019. It will give away ‘original chicken’ and ‘boneless...
STRIPE International Inc. (hereinafter STRIPE) is a mother company of multiple popular fashion brands in Japan. It is a Japanese SPA (specialty retailer of private label apparel), a company which designs, manufactures and sells its products. (Major...
DATAFLUCT, Inc., a Japanese startup, recruited partners in October for their new data service called ‘DATAFLUCT foodloss’. It uses artificial intelligence (AI) to reduce food loss and boost profit margin at grocery retailers across the country. AI...
Kanagawa is the only prefecture in Japan chosen for “SDGs Future City” and “Local Government SDGs Model Project”. To achieve the sustainability goals, Kamakura, a major city in Kanagawa, has launched “SDGs tsunagari point system” (“tsunagari” means...
The Japanese government is tackling both domestic and international measures to restore forestry and to change it into a growth industry. The Forestry Agency runs a new-employment training project called “Midori-no-koyou (Green Employment)”, in...
A temporary cafe, “Robot cafe DAWN ver.β2.0”, opened on Oct 7 to 23 at Otemachi, Tokyo. The waiters at the cafe are robots; and not just ordinary robots, but proxy robots remote controlled by people with physical disabilities. “Robot cafe DAWN ver...
A private organization in Japan called “work with Pride” (hereinafter “wwP”) has announced winners of its annual Pride Index awards on October 11. wwP promotes and establishes diversity management practices regarding LGBT in companies and...