Japan

Laws, agreements, and conventions between countries have “pushed” many Chinese to get their licenses in Japan.

This trend doesn’t seem so surprising in a culture that values respect and formal interactions.

The city’s most famous and bustling ward won’t celebrate the arrival of the New Year.

The country of “karoshi,” or “death from overwork,” wants to reduce the amount of consecutive work days allowed under law from 48 to 14 days.

Japan has introduced a new visa for digital nomads to open international opportunities and revitalize its labor market and local economy.

Accustomed to rain and tiny apartments, the people of Tokyo have devised an ingenious way to dry clothes more efficiently: a technique called the “rainbow.”

The 2011 earthquake and tsunami severely damaged the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant. Now, 13 years later, a new project aims to analyze and retrieve some of the 880 tons of melted fuel inside.

Tohoku Electric Power Co. has decided to reactivate the first boiling water reactor.

His name is Ryuta Watanabe and he already has 10 children from his four “wives” and two girlfriends.

Experts had speculated about one, two, or even three ancestral groups, but it was neither one nor the other. Japan’s population is, in fact, a “mixture.”

With international tourism at record levels, several districts in Tokyo have banned alcohol consumption in public spaces.