A private scholarship program is providing support for high school students without residency status in Japan, ensuring they ...

Renee Marant is a college student living in Japan, something she dreamed of from a young age. She says living in Japan feels safer and is more convenient than living in America, where she's from. But ...

I never thought I'd want to live in an old Japanese house. I've always heard they're creaky and cold. However, I was surprised at how nice and cozy they could be inside. More than that, I really ...

Paul Schrader tells the incredible story of why his masterpiece “Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters" never showed in Japan and ...

When Jigyan Kumar Thapa, a Nepalese national living in Kanagawa Prefecture just south of Tokyo, was traveling home on the ...

For nine years, I lived in Japan, pursuing what I thought was my dream job. I had always been captivated by Japanese culture and learned the language at age 16. Later, I got a master’s degree in ...

As Sanae Takaichi becomes Japan’s first female prime minister, the country confronts an “enshortification” crisis — fewer ...

THE intellectual life of less self-conscious ages than ours has had no independent existence. Men have sought some other primary purpose, and given to philosophy, to poetry, to story-telling, only ...

Billions of years ago, Earth’s atmosphere was hostile, with barely any oxygen and toxic conditions for life. Researchers from the Earth-Life Science Institute studied Japan’s iron-rich hot springs, ...

Current conditions in Japanese hot springs give clues as to how some of these ancient microorganisms survived and adapted.