We dig a little deeper into education in Japan. The segments featured in this episode are available in full online at NHK WORLD-JAPAN ON DEMAND. *Please note that due to the available terms of the ...

Okinawa Prefecture in southern Japan has a long history of emigration. Today, around 420,000 Okinawans and their descendants, are living around the world. This report highlights the journey of a ...

Once a symbol of rebellion and girlhood, the cartoon cat has become a cultural ambassador—part of Japan’s global soft power strategy to rebrand its image after World War II. To much of the ...

A liquor industry group in Japan says it will ask the government to legally clarify what conditions should be met for a whisky to be marketed as "Japanese whisky." The Japan Spirits & Liqueurs ...

President Trump has shown a willingness to fracture the trans-Atlantic alliance with his tariffs and demands for higher military spending. By Steven Erlanger The rise and fall of Yoon Suk Yeol ...

While Japan routinely make it to the World Cup these days, that wasn’t the case 30 years ago. “In my time, a lot of players felt inferior to foreign players, and you could see that in their pl ...

His previous stories have been published in the Associated Press, Bloomberg, the Japan Times and Rest of World. A Tokyo native, Kantaro graduated from DePauw University in the United States and ...

Harvard offers free tuition to students from families earning $200,000 or less ...

April 5, 2025 • Palestinian medical officials say they obtained video footage that refutes Israel's claims about the killing of 15 rescue and aid workers in the southern Gaza Strip last month.

TOKYO, April 3 (Reuters) - Japan's service industry stagnated in ... The service sector's slowdown is of particular concern to the world's fourth-largest economy, which counts on it to anchor ...

Text by Vivian Morelli Photographs by Andrew Faulk Reporting from Tokyo A decade ago, many travelers considered Japan too expensive ... their knowledge of the world around them.