As overtourism strains Japan’s major cities, Gifu Prefecture offers travelers a slower, more intimate way to experience the ...

Across Japan, organizations are redesigning how work gets done in response to structural labor shortages. Many of these ...

Japan had nominal (exchange rate per capita GDP) in 1988 that was 117% of the US level (17% higher) but this has fallen to less than half. On a purchasing power per capita income level Japan peaked at ...

U.S.-Based charities raising less to support earthquake recovery effort. March 18, 2011 -- Two days after an earthquake ravaged Haiti last year, American citizens text-messaged more than $5 million in ...

Japan is, in many ways, a piscivore’s paradise. As a compact island nation, when you’re in Japan you’re never very far away from the sea, and in addition to the country’s representative cuisine of ...

Japan’s economy shrank at a slower pace than anticipated in the third quarter of 2025, supported by resilient domestic consumption even as exports weakened under the weight of US tariffs and cooling ...

The yield on the 10-year Treasury bond is reaching highs not seen since 2007, and it’s happening just as the U.S. Treasury is issuing more debt more quickly than predicted. One effect is that ...

Need a train station shelter in a hurry? You can now print that. In Arida, Japan, a Japanese architectural firm and 3D-printed house manufacturer partnered with JR-West, a railway network, to build ...

Sony may have just announced the 1 TB version of the PlayStation 4, which differs only in the storage capacity, but over in Japan, it has launched a variant that has more substantial changes than that ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Ollie Barder covers Japanese pop-culture and gaming from Tokyo. Since its release last week in Japan, the new God of War on PS4 ...