It’s a situation most foreigners don’t anticipate, but it happens more often than you might think. Whether it’s a drunken altercation that leads to “self-defense” or a minor traffic violation that ...

Ikuko Yamazaki, 62, has been using social media to advocate for the succession of the emperor's first child regardless of ...

OSAKA -- The ratio of only children in Japan has been rising as the percentage of couples considered to have completed childbearing, with 15 to 19 years passed since marriage, who have one child was ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Sony is launching a cut-price model of its flagship PlayStation 5 to be sold only in Japan, in an ...

Western automakers are setting up sales outlets exclusively for electric vehicles in Japan, where EVs remain somewhat of a novelty and domestic manufacturers are lagging behind in the field. The ...