Some of you may curse the day that you – or perhaps more likely, your partner – heard of Marie Kondo. Ever since her ...

After decades of political sensitivities and threats kept it from screens, Schrader’s Yukio Mishima biopic, considered by ...

Renee Marant is a college student living in Japan, something she dreamed of from a young age. She says living in Japan feels safer and is more convenient than living in America, where she's from. But ...

For nine years, I lived in Japan, pursuing what I thought was my dream job. I had always been captivated by Japanese culture and learned the language at age 16. Later, I got a master’s degree in ...

As Sanae Takaichi becomes Japan’s first female prime minister, the country confronts an “enshortification” crisis — fewer workers, slower services, and harder choices on immigration.

There were 3,125 cases of suicide in Japan among people aged 15 to 29 in 2024, marking the fifth year for the figure for this ...

Japan will face challenges meeting climate goals while also easing cost-of-living pressures on its citizens, according to the ...

Japan ranks low in gender equality among developed nations. The first woman to lead the country is an ultraconservative who ...

When Jigyan Kumar Thapa, a Nepalese man living in Kanagawa Prefecture, was riding a train, a stranger told him, ...

Mako Nishimura was reportedly Japan’s first woman yakuza. After she ran away from home as a teen, she joined the organised ...

New research from Japan's iron-rich hot springs shows how early microbes may have harnessed iron and oxygen during the Great Oxygenation Event.