As Japan takes the final steps toward restarting the Kashiwazaki-Kariwa Nuclear Power Plant, the world’s largest nuclear ...

In cities like Tokyo and Osaka, where visitor numbers are climbing again, hotels and airports are facing a big problem: people are leaving their suitcases behind. After days of tax-free shopping and ...

Anti-foreigner sentiment is on the rise as Japan wrestles with how to keep its identity intact amid plummeting birth rates. October 22, 2025 If recent policy moves are any indication, Japan has a ...

The Kashiwazaki-Kariwa Nuclear Power Plant shares the same operator as the crippled Fukushima Daiichi plant. Read more at ...

I see the people of Noto standing up and taking a step forward, and I think it is my calling to be here now, in Noto, introducing people to my home town.” Kaho Shoji and I are making our way along a ...

Modern Japan sounds like a sci-fi premise: the incredible shrinking country. Japan may have one of the longest national life expectancies, about 85 years, and the world's largest city, Tokyo. But the ...

Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi of Japan has called population decline the country's "biggest problem" and set out an action plan for her ministers to follow in hopes of tackling the issue. These ...

In a legislative committee meeting on November 13, Japanese Prime Minister Takaichi Sanae was asked how she planned to address Japan’s notoriously long working hours. She responded that she now sleeps ...