The Japanese government has drawn up measures to assess foreign ownership of real estate in Japan. The move is part of a ...

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A powerful magnitude-7.5 earthquake struck off Japan’s northeastern coast on Monday, triggering evacuation orders and a ...

In the 1980s and 1990s, many foreign workers came to Japan because the economy was strong and there were not enough Japanese ...

The leaves of a heart-shaped ginkgo tree at the Iimori Fureai Hiroba community plaza's parking lot in the city of Isahaya, ...

A new glass-walled giraffe exhibition room was unveiled at Obihiro Zoo in the city of Obihiro, Hokkaido, on December 6. The ...

Every year EF Education First, a Switzerland-based company that provides language learning services and assistance in countries around the world, prepares its English Proficiency Index (or EF EPI) ...

Outdated teaching methods and the rise of language translation apps have made most Japanese less inclined to learn English, ...

Japan’s new prime minister may drive a renewed wave of risk appetite among Japanese crypto investors, industry watchers told Cointelegraph. Japan’s newly elected prime minister, Sanae Takaichi, may ...

Japan on Friday executed a man dubbed the "Twitter killer" who murdered and dismembered nine people he met online, in the nation's first enactment of the death penalty since 2022. He had targeted ...

Students taking university entrance exams in north Japan next year may have trouble finding flights and hotel rooms. This is ...