With about 1.6 million deaths and 720,988 births, there were about two deaths for every new baby born. Japanese governments have proposed policies to reverse this trend, but they have so far had ...

Kawata Yasutoshi was never cut out for traditional Japanese corporate life. As a former guitarist in a heavy-metal band, he found working at a large electronics firm frustrating: particularly the ...

A customer dining at a Sukiya location in January reported a foreign object in their miso soup to a staff member The Yomiuri Shimbun via AP; Getty A Japanese restaurant has issued an apology after ...

Nearly half of Japanese business leaders plan to increase their operations in the United States in response to President Trump’s calls for greater foreign investment despite worries over his ...

KYOTO--Japanese on sightseeing trips seem to be avoiding key landmarks in this historic city due to the hordes of foreign visitors that residents also gripe about. City authorities sought to ...

A popular fast-food chain in Japan will shut down for several days following reports of rat-infested miso soup. Sukiya, the country’s biggest beef bowl chain, said it would cease operations ...

It's directly based on the game from Japanese studio Kotake Create, which sees players stuck in an infinitely-looping Japanese subway. 映画『8番出口』特報【8月29日（金 ...

The Japanese language has three types of characters: Hiragana, Katakana, and Kanji. Hiragana and Katakana are phonetic symbols, each representing one syllable while Kanji is ideogram, each stand ...