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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

Kira-kira names (キラキラネーム), literally “sparkling” names, are names where the reading is a bit (or a lot) different from standard readings of the kanji. In English, the equivalent would be an unusually ...

Traditional Japanese coffee shops (喫茶店; kissaten) are among the country’s best third spaces. For a nominal price, you can while away hours with a book or chatting with friends as the world outside ...

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

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, ...

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

A cropped T-shirt and gray sweatpants, inspired by K-pop’s rehearsal wear, may be popular among Japanese women not only for their comfortable, cute appeal, but also because the outfit can offer a ...

As the world reeled from the deaths of both Dolly Parton and Tim Curry in the same week, news came of another big loss. Artist Kusama Yayoi’s office announced last week that she had died of multiple ...