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

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 ...

For a while, I’ve been seeing theories popping up to explain Japan’s supposed love for AI. Most of them involve Shinto, particularly the native religion’s belief in animism, the polytheistic principle ...

In September of this year, Vice released an article on badass samurai women, notably featuring those who fought for Aizu during the bakumatsu (幕末; ばくまつ), or the end of the Shogunate government. While ...

Regular readers have seen me take swings at Japanese business culture for its love of antiquated technologies like fax machines and Internet Explorer. And that’s a little unfair. Japan has contributed ...

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 ...

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 ...