A survey shows the rise in Japan's living costs is hitting university students hard. More than 90 percent of students on ...

Japan's population has been shrinking for 15 years, with huge implications for the country's economy, national defense, and ...

Is Japan running out of people? Births are down, deaths are up and the number of Japanese nationals fell faster than ever ...

Before arriving in Japan, I had only lived in the suburbs of the San Francisco Bay Area, where I grew up, or my rural college ...

James M. Raymo ¹, Living alone in Japan, Demographic Research, Vol. 32 (JANUARY - JUNE 2015), pp. 1267-1298 ...

My husband, daughter, and I moved from North Carolina to Okinawa, an island known as the "Hawaii of Japan," in 2022 and have lived here ever since.

TOKYO—Shigeko Kagawa, a 114-year-old retired physician from Nara Prefecture, has become Japan’s oldest living person, ...

In the first century of our relations with Japan, both countries swung from extremes of high hope to despair, and back again to hope. Now, with greater opportunities to know each other and with a ...