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When Ayumi Saito was 22 she broke up with her boyfriend. But the Tokyo resident found an easy way to fill the void left by her ex lover's departure. She downloaded a romance gaming app…
Japan's transport ministry has reprimanded a company for the dangerous operation of a drone. The ministry says the firm flew a drone at a commercial facility in Tokyo in April, allowing vis…
The Tokyo Labor Bureau has advised Nomura Real Estate Development Co. to take corrective measures against its abuse of a discretionary work system that forced hundreds of employees to work unpaid ove…
The number of foreign students enrolled in Japanese schools totaled a record 267,042 as of May, with most coming from Asian countries, a government affiliate said Wednesday.
A pine tree that survived the 2011 earthquake and tsunami in eastern Japan and became a symbol of hope for local residents has been cut down. The 25-meter-tall tree in the city of Mina…
A Japanese court has sentenced a Chinese man to 20 years in prison for killing his former girlfriend's female roommate. 26-year-old Chen Shifeng had been charged with murdering 24…
Monks and laypeople beat tatami mats with bamboo slats during year-end cleaning called “susuharai” at the Nishi Honganji temple in Kyoto on Wednesday. They stir up the dust accumulated throughou…
An about 1,000-square-meter vacant lot of land in Tokyo’s Ginza district where a hotel will be built was converted into an outdoor movie theater Nov. 25 for one night only. More than 3…
A special winter train equipped with traditional Japanese "kotatsu" heaters has begun operating in northern Japan, along the Pacific coast. The first train departed from Sanriku Railwa…
“It’s a job anyone can do.” So tweeted entrepreneur Takafumi Horie in October about nursery teachers, immediately triggering a firestorm online that put the issue of their low wages back in the …
