Research has shown that human bodily responses and cognitive shifts affect each other in both directions. We feel sorry because we cry, but also cry when feeling sorry. So, what then for our primate ...

The recent surge of Chinese travelers into Japan may be creating much-needed ambassadors.

The Lunar New Year holiday, a prime time to travel for many in China and Taiwan, is over.With the weak yen making Japan "cheap," inbound tourist numbe･･･ ...

A picture-perfect village in Japan is staying alive with a population of just one person. Discover the story behind this ...

It is not just pop culture that is facing a reckoning. Last year a female prosecutor in Osaka, in west of Japan, accused a ...

A wave of anonymous workplace harassment posts has flooded social media platform X (formerly Twitter) in Japan, triggered by ...

The Japan Social Development Fund (JSDF) is a Partnership between the Government of Japan (GoJ) and the World Bank conceived in the wake of the Asian financial crisis in the late 1990s. It was ...

Two landers owned by US and Japanese companies to carry out separate tests on the Moon's surface. The first minister delivers a rendition of Kimigayo, to welcome Ambassador Suzuki to Wales.

Yes, Japan hosts numerous cherry blossom festivals centered around the traditional practice of “hanami,” or flower viewing. These festivals occur during the brief cherry blossom season, which lasts ...

Japan is grappling with a severe demographic crisis (Representational image) Some elderly people are ready to pay money to go to jails, even though they have to work at prison factories. One of the ...

This may sound like the start of a particularly silly joke, but it was a very real challenge faced by staff at a Japanese aquarium ... turned toward makeshift “people” made from cardboard ...