Exactly what caused this crater lake destination to close down after just one week? In a nutshell, operation difficulties.

As Japan's divorce rate goes down, some experts say the country is seeing a rise in couples who stay together even after they ...

Japan’s masculine pronoun “ore” doesn't have the juice it used to. Instead, men are choosing boku, watashi, and jibun in ...

One of Tokyo's ritziest hotels found itself in hot water over an art gallery exhibition that featured material sexualizing ...

Icks, red flags, and deal breakers: everyone has them. Social media is flooded with people sharing their turn-offs, from bad posture to saying “hashtag” out loud (as in, “Hashtag tired” after a long ...

On September 16, news broke of a case that seemed to confirm what most people in Japan think about the country’s legal, but socially ostracized, nightlife entertainment world. Tokyo police arrested ...

For Japanese language learners, the Japanese Language Proficiency Test (JLPT) is often their white whale. Many learners need to pass level N2 for work purposes. Some take it just to prove their level.

If you’re learning how to read Japanese, it’s probably kanji’s dual reading system, on’yomi and kun’yomi, that’s slowing you down. On’yomi (音読み) is a reading derived from the Chinese pronunciation of ...

Salmon is the most popular topping at Japan’s conveyor-belt sushi restaurants, and it has been for 15 years straight. Which is kinda funny when you consider that raw salmon was not really part of the ...

A Nippon TV news crew recently spent a day at Tokyo Station International Clinic, following foreigners who needed medical attention in the middle of their Japan trips. The cases were about as ...