Japan Watching: Society, Politics, Culture, Economy, Environment, And the World

Two South Korean former "comfort women" cancel their planned meeting with Nippon Ishin no Kaicoleader Toru Hashimoto, saying via a...

The Diet passes a bill for a system to assign an identification number to every citizen to improve government management...

Germany is the most popular country again in terms of "global influence," with Japan dropping from first to fourth place,...

Work and masculinity are inextricably linked in post-war Japan. Although the employment system has changed in the last 20 years...

The world's best-known Japanese Taiko drumming ensemble, Kodo produce a range of sounds from near-silent clattering to full-blown percussive thunder....

Utada Hikaru is one of Japanese pop's guiding lights. She was writing songs before she hit puberty, and when an...

Japan's largest bread maker will raise the prices of some of its products from July. (NHK)

The government of Japan has bestowed one of that nation's highest honors on a Japanese-American, a former U.S. Soldier and...

The Bank of Japan on Friday offered to buy some 900 billion yen in Japanese government bonds from commercial financial...