In a rural town in Japan’s Tokushima Prefecture, older adults earn up to about $130,000 per year by collecting and polishing fallen maple leaves from their backyards as part of a local sustainability ...

“The present of Japan is the tomorrow of America,” said Jesus Fernandez-Villaverde, a professor at the University of ...

The number of foreign workers in Japan reached a new high of over 2.57 million as of the end of last October, government data ...

TOKYO - The following is the latest list of selected news summaries by Kyodo News. ---------- Japan's foreign worker population hits record 2.57 million TOKYO - The number of foreign workers in Japan ...

Last month she decided to test her strong performance in the polls by calling a snap election on 8 February to Japan’s lower, more powerful house (loosely equivalent to the House of Commons, although ...

A high-tech water breakthrough in Japan could rewrite the future of infrastructure. Backed by billions and driven by a ...

US tariffs, Chinese competition and falling domestic demand are putting pressure on most of the country’s seven major carmakers and their suppliers. With a Honda-Nissan deal on ice, driving Mazda into ...

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The soldiers jumped into Narashino Training Area in Chiba prefecture and Ojojibara Maneuver Area in Miyagi prefecture, both ...

China’s births have fallen to a level comparable to that of 1738, when the country’s total population was only about 150 ...

As China’s fertility rate falls to roughly half the replacement level of 2.1, Beijing is scrambling to boost births through policy incentives. But the decline now resembles a boulder rolling ...

The average asking price for a 70-square-meter used condominium in Tokyo's 23 wards in 2025 surpassed 100 million yen ...