Arranged marriages once dominated in Japan, with parents and relatives finding partners. After the war, love matches ...

Officials and staff who work in support of Japan's imperial family are facing unprecedented uncertainty as to how their ...

Inside a local electronics shop, all kinds of parts and equipment for electrical products -- from circuit boards, electrical ...

Japan ranked the lowest among six countries in a private-sector survey of companies about their use of generative ...

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The United States and Iran escalated their attacks across the Middle East on Friday, trading strikes aimed at infr ...

Two Vietnamese men have become the first foreign bus drivers in the Shikoku region. They started regular bus service in late ...

A Kyushu University research group has, for the first time in the world, identified a tactile nerve that suppresses pain, ...

Japan's sandy beaches are shrinking. For about 40 years from shortly after World War II, the main reason was that less sand ...

Amid the widespread adoption of telework since the COVID-19 pandemic, concerns are growing in Japan and abroad about the ...

Yanai goldfish lanterns are a local folk craft made by pasting Japanese paper over bamboo frames to form the shape of a ...