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 ...

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 ...

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

In less than a year, three printing companies serving Japan’s self-published magazine, manga and novel market (dōjinshi, 同人誌) shut down. Rising ink prices linked to instability in the Middle East have ...

Whenever I stay at a hotel in Japan as a resident, I show my residence card as identification. But legally, I don’t have to. The law in Japan requires a declaration of nationality and a passport from ...

If you’re learning how to read Japanese, it’s probably kanji’s dual reading system, on’yomi and kun’yomi, that’s slowing you down. On’yomi (音読み) is a reading derived from the Chinese pronunciation of ...

Salmon is the most popular topping at Japan’s conveyor-belt sushi restaurants, and it has been for 15 years straight. Which is kinda funny when you consider that raw salmon was not really part of the ...

Universal Studios Japan has hosted Halloween Horror Nights for years, celebrating the ghoulish holiday with creative horror-themed haunted houses, mazes, scare zones, and other entertainment. However, ...

On September 16, news broke of a case that seemed to confirm what most people in Japan think about the country’s legal, but socially ostracized, nightlife entertainment world. Tokyo police arrested ...