JLL releases its 2026 Global Real Estate Transparency Index: Improved transparency boosts real estate investment, with investment rising 64% in markets rated “high”
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Real estate transaction values in the 13 markets rated “high” for transparency rose 64% over 2 years
Japan ranked 12th and remained in the “high” transparency market group, as it did in the previous edition
The 2026 edition covers 146 cities in 88 countries and regions worldwide
Analyzes 256 factors across 6 sub-indices
Had approximately 112,000 employees as of June 30, 2026
A Niigata Important Cultural Property transformed into a fantastical space of light! “Sasagawa Residence: Japanese-Style Light 2026” to be held [September 26–October 18]
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Original計10日間は、午後5時半から午後8時まで、特別に夜間開館します。
500 yen for high school students and older
Elementary and junior high school students: 300 yen
[KEYUCA] New socks featuring 2 patented technologies to support walking and standing from the feet up during the autumn outing season and for jobs that require standing: “d Walking Support Compression Pile Crew,” launching on Saturday, September 12
Built on a corporate network of more than 40,000 companies
Has generated more than 100,000 matchmaking opportunities
We support open innovation at more than 164 leading companies across a wide range of industries, including automotive and mobility, electronics and manufacturing, telecommunications, finance and insurance, and food and consumer goods.
Selected 140 companies in more than 20 prefectures
Merchandise for the Ryusuke Fukahori exhibition “Deep Fukahori: ‘Song of the Goldfish’—Co-creation with Kenji Yamada and Keisuke Kitagawa” confirmed! A preview of some items
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Starting Friday, September 18, 2026
Until Sunday, October 25, 2026
Goldfish Sake (regular edition) 2,750 yen (tax included)
Scarf > Lawn (chiffon) 17,600 yen (tax included)
Goldfish Art Studio T-shirt 2024 6,050 yen (tax included)
Goldfish Art Studio Hoodie 2025 9,900 yen (tax included)
Postcard > (regular size) Goldfish Sake, named Saiun 165 yen (tax included)
Postcard > (large size) Miuzu 220 yen (tax included)
Look great with no effort just by getting dressed: AOKI’s high-performance women’s wear brand MeWORK presents its new autumn lineup of “easy-to-wear, flattering tops,” made with autumn colors and high-performance fabrics to keep you comfortable through the lingering summer heat
The “Limited-Time Korean Fair Plate” joins the all-you-can-eat menu for a limited time! Enjoy items from かっぱ寿司’s “Kappa’s Korean Spicy Festival” with chawanmushi in the “Kappa Sushi all-you-can-eat” lineup—a limited-time selection to enjoy this autumn, the season of hearty appetites!
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Original販売期間：2026年９月１７日（木）～９月３０日（水）予定
General: 3,890 yen (tax included)
Seniors (65 and older): 3,390 yen (tax included)
Elementary school students: 1,990 yen (tax included)
General: ¥4,190
Seniors (age 65 and over): ¥3,690
Original3名様以上は1名様につき 990 円（税込）
If you leave the sushi rice uneaten, we charge 33 yen (tax included) per piece.
“Japanese New Year cuisine to celebrate the first days of spring from 日本ばし大増” reservations now open! 日本ばし大増’s New Year cuisine, offering a taste of “Edo style” with more than 120 years of history. Frozen osechi that can be sent to distant destinations is now available in 3 varieties! // For convenient reservations, visit our e-commerce site //
Feasibility study for producing e-methane using CO2 from waste-incineration plant exhaust gas and green hydrogen produced in Tokyo, and injecting it into city gas pipelines, selected for a Tokyo Metropolitan Government public solicitation project
A taste of autumn returns this year! Made with yuzu pepper produced in Kyushu※1! “Kataage Potato Yuzu Pepper Flavor,” with the fragrant aroma of green yuzu and the lingering kick of spicy green chili peppers※2
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Net weight: 60g
Suggested price: around 190 yen, including tax
Monday, September 28, 2026
Since its launch in 2008
First launched exclusively in Hokkaido on November 8, 1993
[神戸須磨シーワールド] A Halloween celebration at the aquarium, featuring sweets with adorable orca and dolphin ghosts! Limited-edition menu items arrive in autumn style
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“Dolphin Halloween Sundae” (1,000 yen)
Orca Ghost Soft Serve (800 yen)
Purple Ghost Melon Soda (850 yen)
Orca Lottery, autumn-limited color “Grape Duo” (1 play/1,300 yen)
Reiwa 6 Noto Peninsula Earthquake recovery event, “Let’s make the power to explore Noto’s satoyama and satoumi count. Wakura Onsen,” to be held at Osaka Station
“Never give up on your dreams; learning can change the future”: One year since the scholarship program began. A look at where its scholarship students are now and what lies ahead.
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I earned a GPA of 3.92/4.0 at university, ranking first in my class.
Why do leadership candidates put what they learn into practice differently, even when given the same assignment? — 10 illustrated guides on developing talent across companies released
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Built on data from 980 companies and 338,000 workers
With reference to 14 related publications on topics including training transfer, goal setting, how problems are perceived, information sharing in groups, action plans, and experiential learning
Parents ask people to repeat themselves, and even when their children notice, they find it hard to bring up the subject. Survey of the younger generation on their parents’ hearing ahead of Respect for the Aged Day
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59.5% of respondents in the younger generation said they had “noticed changes in their parents’ hearing”
57.0% said they “find it difficult” to talk with their parents about their hearing
64.6% (single answer; n=412) said they “would like to recommend that their parents give it a try”
彦根市, Ohmi Railway, Aioi Nissay Dowa Insurance, and BRJ sign an agreement to work together on tourism-focused community development using next-generation mobility
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Tourist visits to 彦根市 are expected to recover to 2.99 million in 2025, including about 90,000 inbound visitors
【Oct. 20 | Free to attend】Trauma-informed care can make responses to bullying consultations smoother! Online seminar and consultation session to be held (commissioned by こども家庭庁)
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Date and time: Tuesday, October 20, 2026, 13:30–16:00
Seminar: 500 participants (registration in order received)
Individual consultation sessions: 4 organizations (registration in order received)
Seminar registration deadline: Monday, October 19, 17:00
Individual consultation session registration deadline: Tuesday, October 13
Taking people who can share the appeal of peaches from Yamanashi to the rest of Japan: Japan’s leading peach-producing prefecture, 山梨県, to hold its first “Peach Sommelier” certification exam
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The exam capacity has been expanded from the originally planned 100 to 300 people
The first “Peach Sommelier” certification exam will be held on Sunday, November 1, Reiwa 8
Applications for the exam open on Monday, September 28
The cutting edge of medical device development comes together in Fukushima! Experts from Japan and abroad, including Professor Fumiaki Ikeno of スタンフォード大学, take the stage | Featured seminars at Medical Creation Fukushima 2026 | October 1 and 2 at Big Palette Fukushima
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Two days: October 1 (Thursday) and 2 (Friday), 2026
Opening at ジェイアール名古屋タカシマヤ on Friday, October 30, 2026: “鎌倉紅谷 ジェイアール名古屋タカシマヤ店” will offer its regular products as well as a special opening commemorative set!
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ジェイアール名古屋タカシマヤ opening commemorative set / 2,916 yen (tax included)
petit paquet（プティ・パケ） / 2,592 yen (tax included)
Financiers, 2 varieties, 2 pieces / 833 yen (tax included)
【Respect for the Aged Day】Use the occasion to discuss your family’s future: recruiting free trial participants for “Family Future Meetings,” facilitated by an administrative scrivener
【First time in Fukushima】Seeking about 200 participants! All-you-can-eat frozen foods and ice cream from the store for 90 minutes! “Chin! suru Restaurant in York Benimaru Nishinouchi Store” to be held
A pop-up oyster hut arrives at カスミ's Kiryu Aioi store in Gunma Prefecture! Open for a limited time from October 2 to October 25! 《A heaping serving of Miyagi Prefecture oysters in the shell for ８８０ yen!!》
A moist texture that will have you coming back for more! 3 「もちもち食感どーなつ」 products from セブン‐イレブン go on sale nationwide in stages starting Monday, September 21!
「ひまリエ」, a new hub where children and adults can grow as people who take on challenges, grand-opens on 9/27 in 北竜町, a sunflower town with a population of about 1,600
Closing, but fighting until the end: 大阪焼肉・ホルモン ふたご Tenma store to hold its first 「Last-Ditch Perseverance Festival」 starting September 18
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The Tenma store will close at the end of September 2026.
Diced Japanese beef sirloin, 980 yen (1,078 yen including tax)
Original※カプセル1個につき20g増量
If you guess correctly, we will add 40g.
Eligible items are from the menu normally priced at 2,000 yen for all-you-can-drink.
We will send you a coupon worth 2,500 yen, redeemable at participating stores on Thursday, October 1.
Operates 76 stores in Japan and 6 overseas (as of September 15, 2026).
Operates 131 stores under 11 brands in Japan and overseas, and primarily runs food-service businesses, sells beverages, and provides consulting related to the food-service industry.
➡️ 「Gymも。」, a personal training gym just steps from Shiki Station, opens on October 1‼️ The first month's fee is just 1 yen now🔥! Plenty of perks are available for the first 15 people‼️
Find the “something” in “We need to do something with AI too.” Free web tool “AI Utilization Slot,” which helps users discover ideas from other companies’ case studies, launched
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“AllNew AI Cases,” featuring more than 350 cases from Japan and abroad
360 cases from Japan and abroad (as of September 14, 2026)
“Making AI the hub of in-house data”—株式会社Emposy begins full-scale rollout of its dedicated ERP development service “AI-ERP,” refined by using the company itself as a test bed
Halloween limited-time sweets featuring pumpkin and sweet potato go on sale in stages from Wednesday, September 16, from France’s セバスチャン・ブイエ and [Goûter] -グテ-
The boutique retains elements of its early 20th-century storefront, including the original wooden display windows still in place beneath the iconic “OROLOGERIA” sign.
PAM01734, limited to 100 pieces worldwide, ¥8,404,000 including tax; 44㎜ Platinumtech™ case; notched crown-protecting bridge
PAM01794, limited to 1000 pieces worldwide, ¥1,639,000 including tax; 44mm stainless steel case
Small-scale art, with around 400 works, gathered in one place. Harajuku to host the largest-ever “No. 0 Exhibition,” with more than 100 participants from Japan and abroad
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Around 400 works in total are scheduled to be exhibited
“No. 0” refers to a small size used for works such as paintings. Works in this exhibition may be F0 (180×140mm) or S0 (180×180mm).
Kate Blanchett and 2 DFF-supported directors to attend the Japan premiere of a work from the 「ディスプレイスメント・フィルム・ファンド」, supported by ユニクロ as a founding partner
ORICO announces a MagSafe-compatible M.2 NVMe SSD enclosure. With 10Gbps, direct ProRes recording, PD 100W, 17 magnets, and SD/TF slots, it supports iPhone video production.
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High-speed 10Gbps transfer
PD 100W fast charging
17 powerful magnets
A can’t-miss campaign offering an effective 30% discount is underway!
Niigata Prefecture entrepreneurship awareness event [Gata Seed] holds its 4th installment for the first time in the castle town of Murakami — Turning local “everyday norms” into value
[First in the childcare industry] “Comprehensive sex education” at a preschool operating for 23 years wins the 20th Kids Design Award’s “Jury Chairperson’s Special Award”
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Each year, the program is delivered to 5-year-olds at about 200 facilities nationwide
チェンジホールディングス, Nasushiobara City in Tochigi Prefecture, and Miyake Town in Nara Prefecture launch a pilot project on using AI agents in municipal operations
Easily capture any scene with the 「ZEISS」 smartphone photography adapter and 2 dedicated attachments, plus the portable 「ZEISS」 stay-on case for Conquest Apia 65
[新潟医療福祉大学] University faculty member accompanies Nasa Hataoka on the LPGA Tour as her trainer for about 2 months: The potential of physical therapists witnessed on the world’s highest stage
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About 2 months
From July 4 to August 31, 2026
Companies mentioned：新潟医療福祉大学、NSGグループ、FuncPhysio、PRIISM Golf Lab TOKYO、Institute of Physical Art（IPA）、PRIISM Golf株式会社
[Beauty students team up with professionals] 高山美容専門学校 makes its first appearance at the “Koi’s CONTEST”! Students create works with popular salons and hone skills to be ready to contribute on the job
Okinawa, a tourism-focused prefecture, sees 65 vacation rentals shut down in 1 year — BizPato to launch its AI-powered ¥30,000-per-month “AI Vacation Rental Management Service” in Okinawa on September 1