How much fans spend on their oshi depends. According to a recent survey by Japanese marketing company CDG and Oshicoco, an ...

Plummeting birth rates and ageing population leave closed-off country 'no choice' but to admit foreigners, but tensions are ...

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 ...

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.

The undersigned Japan-based organizations are writing to call on the Japanese government to protect the International Criminal Court (ICC) from ongoing efforts to undermine its essential global ...

Japan recently introduced new rules providing more support for working parents. These rules, which took effect April 1, amend the Child and ...

Japan’s biggest financial firms are abolishing decades-old practices that kept women off the corporate ladder.

Some 65% of Japanese students from the fourth to sixth grades used at least one form of social media in 2024, up from 37% in 2019, according to a recent survey by researchers at mobile carrier NTT ...

A NEW social welfare payment - worth up to €450 weekly - that became available last month will not be backdated, it has been confirmed. The "landmark" new Jobseeker's Pay-Related Benefit scheme ...