J APAN is consumed by talk of a “foreigner problem”. The story goes that the country has been overrun by ill-mannered migrant ...

Opposition to housing policies reflects an outcry of a deep cultural and psychological loss for Native Hawaiians.

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Lately a diplomatic spat with China has begun depressing the number of people coming to Japan from that country—but even this ...

Origami, the Japanese art of paper folding by using one sheet of paper to make figures like animals, figures and objects. The ...

Over recent years, the chewy rice cakes have killed and hospitalized hundreds of people in Japan, where it is eaten to ...

Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi is seeking to emulate the economic policies of her mentor Shinzo Abe, but this agenda ...

The rural town of Sakai, Japan, north of Tokyo, has sports events, driverless buses, and good food to market itself to Hawaii ...

In 2026, Japan’s fragmented Diet will have less room to govern as economic pressures, demographic decline and regional uncertainties sharpen policy trade-offs ...

The remote Japanese city of Suzu was already struggling to maintain its aging infrastructure when a massive earthquake hit on ...

Japan’s prime minister has joined more than 50 of her fellow female legislators to push for more ladies’ toilets in ...