According to Bloomberg, half of the nation’s gross domestic product (GDP) is in the hands of older adults experiencing ...

Sanae Takaichi came to power promising to tame inflation. But she’s boosting the crop’s cost to appease a subsidy-fuelled ...

iShares Currency Hedged MSCI Japan ETF (HEWJ) offers exposure to Japanese equities with full JPY/USD currency risk hedging. HEWJ is recommended as a hold due to Japan's monetary policy normalization, ...

Sanae Takaichi may seemingly have old-fashioned values, but it’s her economic offering that has captured young people’s imaginations, says freelance journalist Karin Kaneko ...

In some ways this reflects good trends. The region’s fields are short of youngsters because so many have found better jobs in ...

JAPAN is consumed by talk of a “foreigner problem”. The story goes that the country has been overrun by ill-mannered migrant workers, misbehaving tourists and opportunistic foreign investors. But ...

Across parts of rural Japan, a shift is underway that has little to do with dams or new pipelines. Instead, it is happening inside individual homes. I.

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

At the heart of the Air Force's combat search and rescue corps is its aging fleet of rescue helicopters. But as the Air Force ...

Dorje Dundul recently had his foot gnawed by a brown bear – a member of the species Ursus thibetanus, to be precise. It ...

The Alzheimer’s Association estimates that 4.6 million people could have dementia.

It’s always important to remember that cultural differences aren’t always cut along straight lines. For example, “love hotels,” hotels where amorous couples can rent a room by the hour, have been a ...