When a severe rice shortage sent prices skyrocketing in Japan last year, Tokyo restaurant owner Arata Hirano did what had ...

The kimono is a profound historical and cultural treasure of Japan. But can foreign tourists wear them too, as locals do? Here's everything you need to know.

I’m not saying Japan isn’t wonderful in many ways. It can be. The cleanliness of public spaces, the politeness of service staff, and the sense of personal safety are all remarkable. When friends back ...

The number of Japanese nationals living in the country saw a record year-on-year fall of 898,000 people to 120.3 million as of October 2024, official data showed Monday. Japan's birth rate is among ...

Citizens from the Grand Duchy who moved to Japan share their experience on the archipelago as the Osaka World Expo begins ...

Even by the standards of Trump’s second term, the saga that had played out over the past week left the world struggling to ...

Japanese households' inflation expectations heightened in the three months to March, a Bank of Japan survey showed on Friday, ...

Vietnamese worker Ho Anh Duc could provide health insurance to his family back home in Vietnam thanks to a Japanese insurance company and Yamanashi prefectural officials.