# The Japan Times

> The Japan Times is a news source in the TOLD catalogue, based in Japan. TOLD classifies its editorial position as **Balanced**.

- **Domain:** japantimes.co.jp
- **Website:** https://www.japantimes.co.jp
- **Country:** Japan
- **Region:** Asia
- **Language:** English
- **Editorial position on TOLD:** Balanced
- **Founded:** 1897

## About

The Japan Times has one job: translate Japan to the world in English, and it has done so since 1897. Rated least-biased and highly factual, it draws on wire services and ground-level Tokyo reporting to maintain a consistency uncommon inside Japan's famously closed press-club system. That its owner is a public-relations company, and its ratings remain clean, is perhaps the most Japan Times thing about it.

## Profile

- **Ownership:** News2u Holdings, Inc., a Tokyo-based public-relations company; CEO Minako Kambara Suematsu
- **Funding:** Digital subscriptions and advertising revenue
- **Focus areas:** Japan domestic politics, Asia-Pacific affairs, diplomacy, business, society, culture, and environment


## What the position means

TOLD classifies what an outlet publishes over time, based on ownership, funding
and focus. It describes a pattern; it is not a rating of quality and not a
ranking. Nothing in TOLD sorts, hides or promotes a source by its position.
State-aligned and partisan outlets are in the catalogue on purpose, labelled.

## Latest headlines

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- [The art of making something from nothing](https://www.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2026/08/31/art/upcycled-art-japan-hotels/) — 2026-08-31T11:15:00.000Z
- [Japan to exempt extra charges on OTC-like drugs from tax](https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2026/08/31/japan/otc-drugs-tax-exemption/) — 2026-08-31T09:12:00.000Z
- [Government asks city of Hitachiomiya to accept nuclear waste site survey](https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2026/08/31/japan/hitachiomiya-nuclear-waste-site-survey/) — 2026-08-31T09:07:00.000Z
- [Hokkaido and Osaka governors meet to discuss secondary capital concept](https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2026/08/31/japan/politics/osaka-hokkaido-secondary-capital/) — 2026-08-31T08:56:00.000Z
- [35% of young unmarried people in Japan have no wish to get wed](https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2026/08/31/japan/marriage-wish-survey/) — 2026-08-31T08:49:00.000Z
- [SK Hynix weighs Japan memory fab partnership to supply AI boom](https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2026/08/31/companies/sk-hynix-joint-venture-feasibility/) — 2026-08-31T08:34:00.000Z
- [CIA-backed investor helped top German drones firm break into U.S.](https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2026/08/31/companies/cia-investor-german-drones-us/) — 2026-08-31T08:24:00.000Z
- [South Korea court sentences Unification Church leader to jail](https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2026/08/31/asia-pacific/crime-legal/south-korea-unification-church-leader-jail/) — 2026-08-31T08:17:00.000Z

## Assessment note

Latest assessment: 2026-03-29. Generated with TOLD Source Prompt Brief v1.2.7. TOLD summarizes framing patterns and third-party classifications; it does not assess factual accuracy, intent, or legitimacy. External classifications: 7 (4 themes).

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