Japan will triple its departure tax from July 2026, raising exit fees from JPY 1,000 to JPY 3,000 for all travellers. Here’s ...

J APAN is consumed by talk of a “foreigner problem”. The story goes that the country has been overrun by ill-mannered migrant ...

Some 1.09 million people — 560,000 men and 530,000 women — reached adulthood as of Jan. 1, according to government data.

Lately a diplomatic spat with China has begun depressing the number of people coming to Japan from that country—but even this ...

The Bank of Japan said on Thursday the country's regional economies were recovering gradually and many firms saw the need to ...

Also part of the equation this week: China's visible pivot to another regional neighbor, South Korea, whose president spent ...

The Japan Ground Self-Defense Force deployed in November to confront the threat of bears in northern Japan. The rare ...

A week in which longtime tensions between neighbors China and Japan ratcheted up economically and politically is drawing to a ...

Japan, already a world leader in pro-natal policy, must dramatically boost child allowances to make a difference, an analyst ...

South Korean President Lee Jae Myung said the country’s relations with Japan are as important as those with China, seeking to ...

Japan’s first commercial offshore wind farm, Goto, commenced operations on Monday.