December's most unexpected entry comes at number eight. The Agatsuma Anpanman Kids Camera jumps from 26th place last month ...

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

In 1995, divers first noticed a group of bizarre sandy "crop circles" on the seabed around Amami Oshima Island, southwest ...

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

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Most of the time, you assume your brain is either “on” or “off,” awake or asleep. A new study shows something far more ...

Increasing longevity is forcing a rethink of public policy, individual lifestyles, and private finances. Yet it is crucial not to overreact or grow unduly alarmed about shifting population dynamics.

Within hours of returning to office, in January 2025, U.S. President Donald Trump took an axe to multilateralism by pulling the United States out of the Paris climate accord and the World Health ...

It has been two years since the Noto Peninsula Earthquake struck on Jan. 1, 2024. In the four municipalities of the Okunoto area of Ishikawa Prefecture, which suffered extensive damage, population ...

The project is aimed at securing human resources for community development and creating 'related populations,' or people who ...

In a model project by Japan's internal affairs ministry, municipalities in the countryside are collaborating with university students from urban areas, in order to leverage young people's ideas for ...

By taking international solo trips without my children at least once a year for two weeks, I am able to be a better mom and a ...