Shiori Shakuto received funding from the Australian Government, Australian National University and Cambridge University to conduct research for this project. What makes a good retirement?

If you’re trying to decide whether to visit Japan in November, then you really should go ahead and book that trip. November is one of the very best times of the year to visit Japan, thanks in no small ...

A dwindling Japanese village has found a creative way to combat loneliness amid rural depopulation and declining birth rates. Ichinono, a community of fewer than 60 people north of Osaka ...

Copyright 2024 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. “He is the pride of Japan.” Shohei Ohtani fans in Japan are celebrating the Dodgers’ World Series win ...

“Japan is standing on the verge of whether [it] can continue to function as a society.” While the Japanese government and people might not be against immigrants, Japan could provide them with better ...

WASHINGTON -- The devastating loss by Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba's ruling coalition in Sunday's general election has put U.S. officials -- in the White House, the State Department and ...

Suicides among young people in Japan stayed at alarmingly high levels and distinct patterns were observed based on age and gender, according to the latest government white paper on suicide ...

Japan experienced rare political turmoil on Monday as it grappled with the results of Sunday’s snap elections that snatched away the Liberal Democratic Party’s (LDP) majority in parliament for ...

Mr. Taniguchi, who was a special adviser to the cabinet of Shinzo Abe when he was prime minister of Japan, wrote from Tokyo. The political dominance of Japan’s Liberal Democratic Party has been ...

The Liberal Democratic Party has ruled Japan for all but about four years since the movement’s founding in 1955, but lost its majority in an election on Oct. 27, creating political uncertainty ...

The Japanese electorate appeared to punish the Liberal Democrats, leaving it unclear whether the party would be forced to expand its coalition to stay in power. By Motoko Rich Kiuko Notoya and ...

Japanese voters delivered a stinging rebuke to the country’s longtime ruling party in elections Sunday, plunging the world’s fourth largest economy into a rare period of political uncertainty.