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NHK’s official pages for Kyo no Ryori and Kyo no Ryori Beginners bring together broadcast schedules, episode descriptions, and streams marked as available. The main series presents seasonal dishes and recipes from its cooking instructors, while the beginner program teaches approachable meals and basic techniques. The pages show current episodes and upcoming broadcasts; video access can vary by episode, region, and viewing conditions.

The Japan Productivity Center is a Japanese private organization working to improve productivity across industry and support a sustainable economy and society. Its programs include leadership and employee development, seminars, in-house corporate training, and management consulting. It also conducts research and publishes proposals on productivity, employment and wages, workplace mental health, customer satisfaction, leisure, and related social and economic topics. The official site lets visitors find training by job level, theme, or skill, and browse research reports, policy recommendations, the Productivity White Paper, the Leisure White Paper, articles, and organizational news. Details and application conditions are provided on each individual program page.

Webun Plus is the Toyama news information site operated by Kitanippon Shimbun. Its local coverage is organized into politics and elections, economy and agriculture/forestry/fisheries, society and topics, regional news, culture and daily life, personnel, disaster prevention and safety, and children/newspaper-in-education. Municipality links provide routes to news from across Toyama Prefecture. The sports section covers local Toyama clubs and high-school baseball, while national and overseas news and nationwide sports have separate areas. The site also links to series and features, editorials, video news, obituaries, a newspaper-page viewer, morning-paper article lists, and special extra editions. The homepage displays weather for Toyama and Takaoka, traffic and disaster-prevention information, and 24-hour and weekly rankings. Public-safety modules include civil protection, earthquakes, tsunami, linear rainbands, warnings, river-flood alerts, and evacuation information. Member registration and login, Webun Plus applications, and newspaper subscriptions are linked; the homepage does not establish one access rule or price for every article. It is a regional publisher's online service for following administration, community affairs, business, culture, and sports in Toyama as well as national and overseas news.

The Yamanashi Chuo Bank’s official website presents bank products and information for individuals, businesses, sole proprietors, shareholders, and investors. Personal services include account opening, deposits, investment trusts, NISA, home and card loans, insurance, inheritance support, pensions, and iDeCo. The site also explains the bank’s app, internet banking, cashless services, and online procedures. Visitors can locate branches and ATMs, review rates, fees, exchange and investment information, and arrange appointments or consultations. Business customers can explore lending, management advice, operational support, and overseas-business services, alongside news, company details, and careers.

Japan Finance Corporation is a Japanese policy-based financial institution serving three areas: small businesses and sole proprietors, small and midsize enterprises, and agriculture, forestry, and fisheries. Its website explains business financing and the national education loan, and links to online applications, consultations, document requests, forms, and electronic contracts. Other sections cover support for starting a business, succession, business recovery, and overseas expansion. The site also publishes special consultation information for disaster-affected customers, research findings, and institutional publications.

This is GU’s official online store for Japan. The homepage switches between WOMEN, MEN, and KIDS・TEEN and offers categories such as pants, skirts, outerwear, T-shirts, shirts, knitwear, dresses, sweatshirts, loungewear, underwear, shoes, and accessories. It also features limited-time prices, markdown items, seasonal collections, and collaboration releases. Links lead to the GU app and StyleHint, an app for discovering outfit ideas. The site provides access to a membership card and purchase history, shopping cart, shopping guide, exchanges and returns, customer contact, and company information. The products, stock, and promotions shown may change over time.

4Gamer.net is a Japanese-language publication covering console, PC, and smartphone games as well as related hardware. Its articles include announcements and release news, event coverage, reviews, hands-on reports, guides, developer interviews, and videos. Readers can browse dedicated sections for PC, Xbox, PlayStation, Nintendo Switch, mobile games, VR, arcade titles, and analog games. Search by game title or publisher, release schedules, game catalogs, and article rankings help players compare titles and platforms while deciding what to buy or play.

The Japan Textile Federation (JTF) is an industry federation representing organizations connected with Japan’s textile sector. Its official site describes work on fair business practices, workforce development, environmental and safety issues, trade, and collecting and sharing industry information. It also publishes policy requests to the Japanese government and reports on exchanges with textile organizations overseas. Visitors can find a member directory, current news, reference materials and statistics, corporate-conduct initiatives, and programs for fairer transactions. For 2026, JTF lists priorities including fair business relations, stronger supply chains, a circular economy, trade matters, communication and brand strength, and tax issues. The site also presents responsible-business guidelines for the textile industry and a proposal outlining a desired direction for the sector toward 2030.

The official Iyo Bank website provides information for personal customers, companies, sole proprietors, investors, and job applicants. Personal products include ordinary, term, and installment deposits, foreign-currency deposits, investment trusts, NISA, loans, and insurance. The site introduces the AGENT smartphone app, Iyo Bank Direct, a business portal, and foreign-exchange services for companies. Visitors can open accounts, locate branches and ATMs, check rates, exchange quotations, and fees, and find procedures, campaigns, seminars, events, and FAQs. Company information, investor relations, news, and regional content complete the guide to this Ehime-based bank.

JUGEM is a Japanese blog-publishing service with a free plan and a paid JUGEM Plus option priced at ¥330 per month including tax. Its official comparison lists 1 GB of image-upload capacity for the free plan and unlimited capacity for Plus. Plus removes advertisements from PC and mobile blog pages and adds detailed traffic analytics by post, device, and keyword, refreshed hourly, as well as custom-domain and access-control features. The service supports reading and posting from PCs and smartphones, offers design templates, and promotes social-network integration. Public blogs can be browsed without starting one; free signup and login are used to create and manage a personal blog.

Lolipop! is a Japanese web-hosting service for individuals and small businesses, offering rental servers and WordPress hosting. Its tools include quick WordPress installation, domains and SSL, backups, and site migration, with plan details and customer examples. The service has also added an AI website builder: users describe what they need in a conversation and can create and publish a site, alongside the traditional option of building with WordPress.

Stockmark’s Japanese corporate site presents AI services that turn fragmented business information, technical documents, and employees’ implicit knowledge into structured assets. It helps organizations redesign workflows around AI and improve decision-making, while researching Japanese business-focused LLMs, VLMs, and knowledge-structuring technology. Its offerings include the Stockmark A Technology AI platform and Aconnect, an AI agent for manufacturing R&D that gathers information from news, papers, patents, government reports, and internal documents to surface risks and opportunities and support technical research and problem solving.

Nikkei Business Digital Edition is the online version of Nikkei Business, an economics and management publication from Nikkei Business Publications. Its official introduction describes it as a media service for managers seeking better decision-making and stronger organizational value. Coverage is organized around five themes: human capital management; governance and risk management; finance and capital strategy; the global economy and management thinking; and economic security. Reporting and analysis examine how management ideas work in practice and what can be learned from the challenges, setbacks, and successes of companies and executives. The editorial team draws on specialist reporters in Tokyo and overseas bureaus. The site features latest articles, special reports, recurring series, rankings, email newsletters, audio, video, live programs, current weekly-magazine issues, and an archive. Subscription and member plans are available.

DTS is a Japanese information services and systems integration company supporting the full system lifecycle, from consulting and design to development, hardware and software selection, deployment, operations, and maintenance. Its official site organizes solutions by industries such as finance, insurance, government, communications, retail, manufacturing, construction, and healthcare. It also lists packages for AI, cloud, ERP, security, BPO, and process improvement, alongside customer cases and technical articles.

JISF represents Japan’s iron and steel industry. The site publishes statistics and analysis on production, supply and demand, orders, shipments, inventories, and trade, alongside industry news and policy statements. It also presents environmental and infrastructure initiatives, educational material about steel, and information on seminars and publications.

Yahoo Japan Transit lets users enter stations, bus stops, addresses, or facilities as origins and destinations to find public-transport routes across Japan. Results can be compared by travel time, transfers, and fare, with options for IC-card or cash fares and unreserved or reserved seating. Service updates cover railways, buses, Shinkansen, and limited express trains, while major airports show domestic and international departures and arrivals. Users can look up station details and timetables for weekdays, Saturdays, Sundays, and holidays, then register frequent lines for a consolidated status view or email alerts. The site also links to its mobile app, road traffic information, maps, weather, and disaster notices.

Car Watch is a Japanese automotive news publication operated by Impress Corporation. Its homepage reports on new and updated vehicle launches, specifications and prices, automakers and suppliers, motorsports, and automotive events. A make-by-make test-drive archive brings together road reports on passenger cars, electric vehicles, and hybrids. Separate topics cover tires, navigation systems, dash cameras, motorcycles, and vehicle customization. The publication also features vehicle photo stories, product reviews, reporter and expert columns, article archives, and readership rankings. It is an editorial resource for following Japanese car releases, comparing vehicles, and keeping up with the automotive and mobility industries.

The Japan Gas Association explains natural gas characteristics and types and how city gas is produced and delivered. Its site covers household and industrial gas uses, safety and environmental measures by the gas industry, the city-gas business, the association and its members, along with announcements and news releases.

gihyo.jp is an IT content site operated by Japanese publisher Gijutsu-Hyoronsha. It publishes articles and news across operating systems, frontend and backend development, programming, machine learning and AI, devices and IoT, science, design, and business skills. Readers can explore featured stories, rankings, and serialized material, follow updates through email newsletters or RSS, and find links to the publisher’s books, magazines, and ebook store.