Hayakawa specifically chose to set the story in 1987, during Japan’s economic bubble period, seeing parallels with contemporary society. “Back then, Japan’s economy was growing and growing.

Japanese researchers turned to “experimental archaeology” to study how ancient humans navigated powerful ocean currents and ...

Manga is a cultural product and, as such, reflects the social situation of the era in which it emerges, but also influences ...

According to Loretta Ross and Rickie Solinger, reproductive justice “demands sexual autonomy and gender freedom for every ...

A container ship is docked at a cargo terminal in Tokyo, on April 9, 2025. (AP Photo/Hiro Komae) TOKYO (Kyodo) -- Japan's economy shrank an annualized real 0.7 percent in the January-March period ...

Harvard Business School has published a study on a Japanese trading house’s business style dating from the feudal era. The case study of Itochu Corp. centers on its “sampo-yoshi” (triple ...

The Wilduck Burger Special Set will cost ¥4,000 (~$27.50). Some of the ingredients used for the real-life version of the food will be Hamburg meat, cheese, mushroom sauce, and fried potatoes.

The first dismantling of a commercial reactor in Japan has started, ushering in a new period of decommissioning but with the same problem that has plagued the nuclear power industry for years.