Japan's population has been shrinking for 15 years, with huge implications for the country's economy, national defense, and ...

Japan's falling population is owed, in part, to a spike in the success of women in the workforce. A greater percentage of ...

Conservative lawmakers decry a change of the surname rule in the Civil Code as an attack on traditional values and tie it to ...

From learning to carve woodblocks or make pottery, to observing artisans at work, tourists can help sustain and revive these ...

Thinking of moving or traveling to Japan? Here's what it means to be wealthy, if you're eligible for a digital nomad visa and ...

What are the hallmarks of a resilient, balanced, long-term happiness? Traditional Japanese wisdom offers insights.

Answer: the clock. Not the polite little wall clock above my desk, but the national one that seems permanently stuck on ...

The country’s objects and ideas, including matcha and emojis, that have had an outsize influence on the world.

Periods including “fish emerge from the ice” in mid-February and “rainbows hide” in late November offer a framework for ...