Fukushima is launching an experimental app to see if gamifying housework will help close the chore gap in Japanese households ...

Does Japan REALLY welcome its new robot overlords? A deep dive into what Japan currently thinks about AI usage.

The new national legal requirement doesn't carry any direct fines, and customers face no potential punishment for crossing ...

Want to break up with someone, but are afraid what their reaction might be? Japan has a new type of service for that.

To start, the village has about 1,200 residents. Last year, roughly 380,000 people visited, most heading for the Soni Plateau (曽爾高原, Soni Kōgen ), where fields of Japanese silver grass, or susuki, ...

Just as the government is adding Japanese-language requirements to certain visas, the twice-yearly JLPTs are getting ...

Japan’s elderly care industry faces a severe labor shortage – and the problem has only deepened as its population ages. In 2023, Japan had 2.126 million care workers. That number fell by about 29,000 ...

If you’ve seen one image of Kitano Takeshi, alternatively known by his comedic sobriquet “Beat” Takeshi, it’s likely this one: Takeshi in a white button-up shirt on a beautiful beach, smiling as he ...

A Tokyo geisha plays the shamisen. 1870s. For Kiyoha, however, her trials went far beyond what might be considered acceptable to hone a disciple into a cultured artist. In her own words, “to begin ...

Long before Mario jumped his first barrel, and a century before Pokémon fit in a pocket, Nintendo was already a household name in Japan. But let’s be clear: their customers weren’t kids, and they ...

With their colorful kimono, stark white makeup, and extravagant hair ornaments, geisha are one of the most recognizable images of traditional Japanese culture. But like a lot of history, the reality ...