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Forty-Seven Samurai: A Tale of Vengeance and Death in Haiku and Letters, by Hiroaki Sato. The bare historical facts of the 47 samurai saga are incredible and thrilling. Hiroaki Sato | …
In an apparently discriminatory practice, 11.1 percent of companies in Japan have in-house rules on the height of the heel of pumps worn by female employees at the workplace, a survey by the Jap…
He has given up working in Japan with the new working visa and plans to go back to his home country. According to the Japan Student Services Organization, the number of foreign students totaled …
That’s when AKB48 released its first chart-topping single, “River.” I’d like to argue that the J-pop decade ended early, too. And between Oct. 21, 2009, and March 14, 2019, the pop gro…
At first glance, it has been a lucrative period for the domestic movie industry, too. From an international perspective, it’s fair to say that Japanese cinema isn’t inspiring the kind of excitem…
The immigration service had issued just 895 working permits as of early November under the new visa system for skilled blue-collar foreign workers, a far lower number than had originally been fo…
The campaign’s claims were scrutinized by Tokyo Shimbun in an Oct. 17 article. Tokyo Shimbun says the truth is more complicated. As the lawyer for Japan River Keeper Alliance told Tokyo Shi…
Nagano Prefecture has won praise for providing foreign residents with disaster information related to powerful Typhoon Hagibis, which tore through the prefecture last month, in multiple languages and…
Funds totaling more than ¥230 million have been donated by more than 16,500 people to a crowdfunding campaign set up by the city of Naha, in Okinawa Prefecture, to help rebuild Shuri Castle, which wa…
“Sorry, we’re full,” I hear someone say as I open the door to Ladrio, a pre-eminent kissaten (traditional coffee shop) situated in a tumbledown alley in Tokyo’s Jimbocho neighborhood. Coffe…
