Japan is staring down a demographic cliff. The population has shrunk for 15 straight years, with births hitting a record low of 730,000 last year and deaths a record high of 1.58 million.

Standing on the steps of the Élysée Palace on December 7th, Donald Trump made a for-once accurate observation: “It certainly seems like the world is going a little crazy right now,” the US ...

As 2024 nears its end and we look back on the year in entertainment, it was clearly one when Japan-related works loomed large on the global market. It is a diverse group of works. Some were made ...

After all, very few moving pictures of Kansas City from the 1920s and 1930s are available. Home movie cameras, which were introduced by Kodak in 1923 weren’t cheap. Film stock often degraded ...

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Located in the Yamagata region about 260 miles north of Tokyo, the onsen is one of the most famous in Japan, drawing around 330,000 visitors each year. Travelers from around the world flock to the ...

Influenza continues to rage across Japan, with an estimated 1.67 million people becoming sick and seeing doctors in the week through last Sunday, double the level the week before, according to ...