Number of foreign residents in Japan hits record 2.82 mil.
Technical trainees totaled 367,709, eclipsing the number of foreign students at 336,847, while there was a sharp rise in other work-linked visa holders, the agency said. Those arriving on a…
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IN PHOTOS: Tokyo Motor Show 2019
KYODO NEWS - 5 hours ago - 16:25 | All, Lifestyle, JapanThe Tokyo Motor Show opened to the public on Friday at Tokyo Big Sight, with more than 180 companies and organizations showcasing con…
Japan gov't to start using "family name first" order from Jan. 1
KYODO NEWS - 5 hours ago - 16:20 | All, JapanThe government will follow the family-name-first order when using the Roman alphabet to write Japanese names on official documents fro…
IN PHOTOS: Autumn skies lit up as Kyoto celebrates Kurama Fire Festival
KYODO NEWS - 1 hour ago - 14:25 | All, Japan, LifestyleThe autumn skies were lit up bright red above Kyoto's Mt. Kurama earlier this week as hundreds of people bearing huge flamin…
Russian kiteboarder crosses Soya Strait from Sakhalin to Hokkaido
The Hokkaido Shimbun Press - 1 hour ago - 14:20 | All, Lifestyle, JapanRussian professional kiteboarder Eugenii Novozheev earlier this month successfully completed a roughly 53-kilomet…
EVs, short-range cars take spotlight at Tokyo Motor Show
By Takuya Okamoto, KYODO NEWS - 7 hours ago - 19:33 | LifestyleTOKYO - Electric vehicles and cars designed for short trips are in the spotlight at the Tokyo Motor Show as automakers fa…
IN PHOTOS: Scars of Typhoon Hagibis
(Photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter on Oct. 13, 2019, shows houses in Nagano, central Japan, submerged after the Chikuma River overflowed due to Typhoon Hagibis.) (The Chikuma River in Nag…
Olympics: IOC mulls moving 2020 marathons, race walking events to Sapporo
KYODO NEWS - Oct 16, 2019 - 23:36 | Sports, News, AllTOKYO - The International Olympic Committee announced Wednesday it is planning to move the 2020 Tokyo Olympic women's and men…
SoftBank to provide up to $9.5 bil. to WeWork
KYODO NEWS - 5 hours ago - 14:03 | All, World(An employee is seen behing the logo of WeWork Companies Inc. during the SoftBank World 2018 conference on July 19, 2018 in Tokyo. )[Getty/…
IN PHOTOS: Mt. Fuji gets season's first snowcap
Fuji got its first full snowcap of the season on Oct. 23, 2019, eight days later than last year, according to the city of Fujiyoshida in eastern Japan. The announcement came a day after the Kofu…