For the people I spoke to, retirement is understood as an opportunity to live a life for themselves, leading to a journey of ...

Komatsuna, or Japanese mustard spinach, is a leafy green vegetable with a mild mustard flavor. It is a cool-season crop that ...

In February, venture company Towing Inc., working with major construction firm Obayashi Corp., succeeded in growing komatsuna, Japanese mustard spinach, by using sand like that found on the moon.

For a long while, there was an industry in Japan called Nihonjin-ron: a multimillion-dollar traffic in theories of the Japanese national character. The Japanese of the 1960's and 70's discovered to ...

Want to learn Japanese by playing video games and watching anime? A band of YouTubers — with the help of modern tools — has made learning one of the world’s most challenging languages into a ...

Here’s how we test products and why you should trust us. Until recently, that bottle of Japanese whisky you paid a premium for might not actually contain whisky made in Japan. Producers could ...

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“I want to move the Japanese Diet, and society, forward.” Activists in Japan maintain that the election of more women will lead to a more inclusive society. Some of them addressed a webinar ...

In 2016 the rising number of student suicides led the Japanese government to pass a suicide prevention act with special recommendations for schools. Family circumstances, personal issues with ...

By Li Yuan A Japanese boy was stabbed on his way to school in China on Sept. 18. That’s the date when, nearly a century earlier in 1931, Japan invaded China. The child, who was 10 years old ...

In the 1960s, Japanese books became immensely popular in South Korea. Interestingly, Korean newspapers often wrote about this ...