Okinawan men fell from first to 43rd while women slipped to 16th in the last life expectancy survey, a slide that is expected ...

In June of 2020, Ikea opened a new branch in the fashion-focused Harajuku neighborhood of Tokyo. Launching a new venture at this time was a gamble, since the COVID pandemic was in full force and the ...

TOKYO -- Japan is seeing a growing number of "gray divorces" where couples who have shared life together over 20 years decide ...

Mikayla McGhee moved to Bahrain in December 2022 after first visiting in 2020.

One of a minority of Japanese cities that don't share a name with the prefecture they are the capital of, Kofu is the ...

“The present of Japan is the tomorrow of America,” said Jesus Fernandez-Villaverde, a professor at the University of ...

Japan’s snap election: Who’s running, what they stand for, and what’s at stake - Sanae Takaichi is betting on her high ...

A Japanese government report shows that the number of suicides by students through high school hit an all-time high last year ...

These unusual, coloured glass structures allow you to see what’s going on inside—until you enter to use them, and then an ...

Jobs were cut at the fastest pace in more than five years after Rachel Reeves’ second Budget, new figures show.

The Osaka gathering was thanks to the “Adult Women’s Dormitory Project,” a group working to build just that for middle-aged ...

South Korea’s government-led stock market reforms remind me of Japan in 2020. Back then, Japan implemented intense structural ...