Bringing opportunities for children across Japan—Girl Scouts of Japan’s “Join Us Campaign,” offering ¥4,000 off first-year membership fees, ends September 30
[On sale August 1] European-style curry specialist “オーベルジーヌ” teams up with SHOGUN BURGER for its first collaboration! A summer-only burger arrives, meant to be enjoyed by dipping it into plenty of curry sauce
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¥2,380 (tax included)
Since its founding in 1987
Ranked sixth worldwide in the hamburger category at the World Food Championships
[JAF Nagano] First-ever event! Enjoy a BBQ at Iizuna Kogen, at an elevation of approximately 1,000 m! The event, to be held on Aug. 29 (Sat), also features bird-call making and a bingo tournament with free camping-stay vouchers as prizes.
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Capacity: 50 people
Original①大人1名 5,500円
Original②小人（小学生以下）1名 1,000円
Companies mentioned：JAF（一般社団法人日本自動車連盟）、eternal story 株式会社
[A challenge to the reality that 80% of new business owners “fail”] Hiroshi Yamakawa, who knows both the successes and failures of restaurant management, to speak at a seminar hosted by TOKYO Startup Station
JGTO tour pros decode “Trackman iO” data at “54GOLF RANGE,” a membership-based indoor golf range opening in Shibaura—grand opening on Sept. 1 (Tue)
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“54GOLF RANGE,” a membership-based indoor golf range, will grand-open on Sept. 1, 2026 (Tue), in Shibaura, Minato-ku, Tokyo (a 5-minute walk from JR Tamachi Station).
Ahead of the opening, the facility will begin a pre-opening period on Aug. 1, 2026 (Sat), with membership applications opening the same day.
Takeshi Hoshino (Representative Director) is a JGTO tour pro. He opened 54GOLF CLINIC in March 2002 and is now in his 25th year as a teaching professional.
Drawing on insights accumulated over more than 10 years of using Trackman for instruction, he interprets the factors behind the numbers and shows golfers a path to improvement.
A high-quality practice environment is available 24 hours a day, without relying on feel.
・Membership fee: 16,500 yen / Annual fee: 16,500 yen
Sankyo, with 57 years in business and a track record of improving logistics for hundreds of companies, launches a “Logistics Improvement Consulting Service” for its own logistics centers
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57 years since founding
Currently operates 8 logistics centers
An average of approximately 1 in 2.7 million cases over 5 years
“Translation Gummy” could become practical around 2030, while a “Time Machine” will remain difficult even in 2100 — “Miraima” launches, scoring the feasibility of future gadgets from “Doraemon”
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Feasibility score: 70 points, Rank B
Feasibility score: 17 points, Rank D
Rocket Piloting Training Machine (85 points, Rank A)
“New stability from a reverse taper” — NO1-GRIP, the golf grip brand, launches 3 new putter grip models that reduce wrist movement and dramatically stabilize your stroke!
“Happy cows of Ishigaki Island for special occasions” — A beef brand launches, using proprietary technology to measure “happiness hormone levels in cows” and deliver a food experience for life’s special occasions
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Price: 30,000 yen (before tax)
HALEBEEF premium beef set for steaks and yakiniku (500 grams)
Automatically display newsletters created for your website in pop-ups! Guide people who have never used a newsletter to become members and boost registrations! Launch of “LTV-MailFunPush”
[Amusement park Musashino Village] Enjoy fireworks at the amusement park during the Obon holidays! “Fireworks Show” to be held on August 15 (Saturday)! (加須市, Saitama Prefecture)
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A spectacular display of 1,300 fireworks that children will love
[Survey on attitudes toward consumption tax on food] “Maintaining 8%” was the most common response, but 60% support a tax cut; more than 40% prioritize “speed over the system”
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YouTube channel with more than 1.73 million subscribers
Sample size: 600 people
“The current rate of 8% is fine” (23.2%)
“Lower it to 1% as soon as possible” (22.2%)
“Reduce it to 0%, even if it takes time” (15.5%)
60% (60.7%) support cutting consumption tax on food in some form
“Easing the burden on household finances as soon as possible” (43.7%)
“I don’t think things will change much” (34.5%)
“Reducing the burden of social insurance premiums” (43.8%)
Typhoon-related plumbing problems: water repair services most commonly cost 10,000–50,000 yen, while about 1 in 4 people faced expenses exceeding 50,000 yen
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“10,001–50,000 yen” was the most common response at 45.7%
Cases involving costs of “over 50,000 yen” accounted for around 23% in total
Only 24% had taken steps to prevent plumbing problems before typhoon season
“Clogged drains and catch basins” accounted for 41.5%
About 50% of people with typhoon-related plumbing problems called a water repair service
Among those who called a water repair service, about 51% said repairs were completed the same day. Including those whose problems were fixed within 1–3 days, about 86% had their water service restored within a few days.
[赤福] Seasonal summer “赤福水ようかん” on sale at Haneda Airport Terminals 1 and 2｜Pop-up shop open for a limited time from August 6 (Thursday) to August 17 (Monday)
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12 days, from August 6 (Thursday) through August 17 (Monday), 2026
Akafuku mochi, 12 pieces: ¥1,300 including tax
白餅黑餅, 8 pieces: ¥1,100 including tax
Okage Dog sable cookies, 6 pieces: ¥1,000 including tax
饌 (sen), rice crackers, 5 pieces: ¥1,000 including tax
August 3 is “Honey Day”! New merchandise and limited-time perks celebrating the 100th anniversary of the original Winnie-the-Pooh stories are arriving at “Disney HARVEST MARKET,” a cafe and gift shop inspired by the world of Disney.
[武蔵野大学] University students and elementary school students turn a vacant house in their community into a “private park”! Planning a summer festival for the 大間々祇園祭 on Saturday, August 1!
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15 students from 太田研究室’s “OTALAB”
10 local elementary school students
A total of 6 workshops
Underused property (an area of approximately 450 square meters, including 2 vacant houses, a parking lot and a garden)
Designated as an underpopulated area in 2022
From April 2025
In June 2024,
In 2025
More than 14,000 students
Changed its name to 武蔵野大学 in 2003
Since becoming coeducational in 2004
Opened Japan’s first data science faculty at a private university in 2019
Opened Japan’s first faculty of entrepreneurship in 2021
[First implementation] What is “bar-born natural recruiting,” which supports growth to over ¥100 million in ARR? 株式会社on the bakery successfully recruited top talent by using the KOBUSHI BEER community as a hub for building trust!
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Approximately 30 partner companies
Approximately 10 companies using the product
A marketer and entrepreneur community attended by more than 5,000 people annually
30,000 yen per month (excluding tax)
ROI of approximately 15 times
Companies mentioned：KOBUSHI MARKETING合同会社、株式会社on the bakery、KOBUSHI BEER
Great location but still no sales? What is the solution to “joined buildings and difficulty with simultaneous rebuilding”? A real estate appraiser will hold an individual Q&A session
[Explained by a labor and social security attorney] The blind spot in executive bonuses that could cost you if overlooked. Smart financial planning that takes social insurance premium caps into account, and legal cost-cutting strategies
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Original厚生年金保険料は「1カ月の間の賞与につき150万円」
Health insurance premiums: “cumulative bonuses of up to ¥5.73 million per year (April through the following March)”
If ¥3 million is paid at once as an executive bonus
Original支給時期を「年1回（200万円）」に集約することで
More than 750 people nationwide have obtained the “Employment Clean Planner” qualification
Learn without strain, even if you’re new to IELTS! “Complete IELTS Listening and Reading Preparation” to be released on July 30
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A score of 7.0 is a band score required for admission to leading universities and graduate schools in English-speaking countries and for employment at foreign-affiliated companies. With as little as 40 days of study (5 days a week × 8 weeks), work on listening and reading a little each day and gradually build your ability to solve questions.
The author runs an English-language school in Canada and is an English instructor who has taught across a wide range of fields, including IELTS preparation, TOEIC, business English, interpreting and translation, and English conversation. The author’s extensive teaching experience and practical know-how are reflected throughout this book.
For IELTS preparation, the author has supported the learning of more than 1000 students through a wide range of formats, including in-person individual and group lessons, seminars, online lessons, and correspondence courses.
【Price】3,080 yen (tax included)
[Size] A5 (148 mm × 210 mm), 472 pages
[Included] Downloadable audio for study (English [British English], 4 hours 19 minutes)
[AI&DX Leaders' Conference 2026] Imagining the future of people, organizations, and businesses in the age of AI agents. To be held in Otemachi, Tokyo, from 12:00 on Friday, September 11. Registration now open.
Integrating production, storage, and shipping into a 2-location setup in Kansai and Kanto. Premium frozen gourmet brand mitaseru(ミタセル) opens a new central kitchen in Funabashi
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Approximately 2.5 times the area of the existing facility
Lineup expands to a total of 57 restaurants and 112 products
Orders open for products including trading foil-stamped cards featuring newly illustrated characters in Chinese outfits from the TV anime Medalist, available through AMNIBUS, which sells original anime and manga merchandise
[Health Management Seminar] Health Management Terakoya Series Special Edition! Exploring the reasoning behind the written questions (Q17, Q32, Q69) on the Reiwa 8 fiscal year Health Management Survey, starting with “Why?” — Held on Aug. 19, 2026!
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Employees: 53 (as of April 1, 2026)
A practitioner who has supported organizational improvement at more than 100 companies
New products featuring illustrations of Eren and Levi from the TV anime Attack on Titan dressed as an angel and a devil go on sale Aug. 1! Animate will also hold a promotion where customers can receive a special foil-stamped square card
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The manga has surpassed 140 million copies in circulation worldwide
Audience attendance surpassed 1 million
Price: 1,980 yen each (tax included)
Original価格：1パック（2枚入り）495円（税込）
Price: 1,100 yen each (tax included)
Price: 550 yen each (tax included)
Companies mentioned：株式会社アニメイト、講談社、「進撃の巨人」The Final Season製作委員会
Announces the “2026 Quantitative Survey on HR Trends”: The focus of HR challenges has shifted since the 2021 survey toward employee retention and support for success. In management challenges, “transforming people and organizations”—including securing and developing talent and leveraging DX and AI—ranks among the top priorities
Enjoy summer in Ginza in a yukata! 銀座天一 will again take part in the “GINZA SIX Bon Odori × Ginza Specialty Shops Food Stalls.” The “Ginza Specialty Shop Collection,” featuring miniatures of famous establishments, will also be available
doors inc., a creative company connecting people, businesses and culture to unlock new value, announces its corporate statement. — Taking Japanese creativity global and carrying it into the next millennium —
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Companies mentioned：doors inc.、NEW ENERGY、Blue Marble、寅壱GOTO GROUP PTY LTD、MINAMATA
How 15 years of young people regularly visiting local communities led to an award for frailty prevention: SET explains the program’s structure in a 3-part podcast
“Green Witch,” the German-born bio detergent, launches a 30th-anniversary campaign marking its arrival in Japan, with a chance to win an 8-day trip through Germany, including its “hometown” of Hamburg and the Romantic Road, starting Saturday, Aug. 1
A former diplomat turned restaurant owner aims to end “food trips hampered by language barriers”—launching MENU-PAAN, a menu translation app, and RESTO-PAAN, an app for creating foreign-language menus using cutting-edge AI
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Usable in 50 countries and regions worldwide
Menus in 12 major languages worldwide are ready
Translation for the first 100 items, plus 30 items every month, is free forever
Expanding opportunities to view art: Some of the collection of around 7,900 works to be shown across 大阪府 — Reiwa 8 fiscal year “Project to Promote the Use of Artworks Owned by 大阪府” launches under a new structure
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Osaka Virtual Art Museum “enoco＋” to showcase around 200 works in a virtual space
More than 28,000 works submitted from 81 countries and regions worldwide
Promoting the appeal of experiential tourism through influencer marketing. STUDIO FOCUS supports social media promotion for Aichi Prefecture’s tourism project “旅ろっ！愛知”
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Influencers with a combined following of more than 520,000
“Landrome Kotehashi Sankakucho Store” to open in Hanamigawa Ward, Chiba City, at 9:30 a.m. on Thursday, Aug. 6, 2026! Offering products that support local dining tables, including the “Majime Series”
A summer with less homework: As families increasingly shape children’s writing skills, online penmanship classes for elementary school students to launch on Sept. 1 (free trial registration open early from 7/21)
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¥15,000 enrollment fee waived
Monthly tuition is ¥5,980, including teaching materials
Ranked No. 1 nationwide in group participation in the Hard-Pen Calligraphy Skills Test for 12 consecutive years
A calligraphy school attended by around 10,000 children
A cooled rest area with beds will be set up at the Okazaki Fireworks Festival on Saturday, Aug. 1. Heat countermeasures to be tested at the fireworks festival.
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External dimensions: approx. length 2,880 mm × width 1,440 mm × height 1,970 mm
Internal dimensions: approx. length 2,800 mm × width 1,300 mm × height 1,910 mm
Weight: approx. 120 kg gross
To prepare for especially hot conditions, 2 window air conditioners have been installed to increase cooling capacity.
Turning top salespeople’s tacit knowledge into an organizational asset: Kakero launches an AI implementation service for sales organizations powered by AI agents