Asking students to clean their classrooms might seem unusual to some, but in Japan it is an unquestioned part of school life ...

Discover the enlightening Japanese concepts that have influenced nations and cultures worldwide, including the inspiring ...

Nagi earned the tag “miracle town” because its birthrate was more than twice the national average a few years ago.

Wearing seat belts in cars improperly can fatally damage the abdomen of young children in case of accidents, a survey by a ...

ISHINOMAKI, Miyagi Prefecture--Five days after the Great East Japan Earthquake and tsunami, Akemi Karino came to look for her missingdaughter at her destroyed elementary school. She saw rubble ...

A Navy medic who helped pull injured sailors from the oily waters of Pearl Harbor after the 1941 Japanese attack on the naval ...

THE Japan Information and Culture Center (JICC) of the Embassy of Japan in the Philippines is now accepting applications for ...

The government wants to take advantage of demographic dividend, hence the emphasis on human capital development through ...

Dozens of HISD's schools were built before 1950, and many have been transformed into community centers long after their ...

The Golden Globes are on Sunday and after another year of great TV, many wonder who will take home the night’s biggest prizes ...

The government of Japan is engaging in comprehensive economic measures to address skyrocketing consumer prices, but are these ...

I’m a female civil servant in my 20s. There was a staff reshuffle at my workplace, and I ended up being placed in the same ...