A weekly ranking of the most popular songs in Japan combining physical and digital sales, audio streams, radio airplay, YouTube and GYAO! video views and karaoke data, compiled by Billboard Japan.

For the uninitiated, sorting one's rubbish can be a convoluted process in Japan - a country that boasts one of the world's strictest waste disposal rules. But in the city of Fukushima, things are ...

Japan ranked 29th for labor productivity among the 38 member countries of the OECD, according a survey by the Japan Productivity Center released Monday. Japan's per-hour productivity in 2023 came ...

Parliament on Tuesday enacted the government's ¥13.9 trillion ($90 billion) supplementary budget for fiscal 2024 to finance the first comprehensive economic policy package under Prime Minister ...

Here’s how it works. Sometimes, the search for the biggest scare possible may take you overseas and into an exploration of Japanese horror movies. There are many great Asian horror movies ...

TOKYO, Dec 13 (Reuters) - Japan's core consumer price inflation probably accelerated in November, driven by persistently high rice prices and the phasing out of utility subsidies, a Reuters poll ...

Today’s list is divided into shorter lists. First, there are the 2024 games–and some older games–that I played with my son ...

The Japan Social Development Fund (JSDF) is a Partnership between the Government of Japan (GoJ) and the World Bank conceived in the wake of the Asian financial crisis in the late 1990s. It was ...

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(AP Photo/Kiichiro Sato, File) Updated [hour]:[minute] [AMPM] [timezone], [monthFull] [day], [year] BANGKOK (AP) — A quarterly survey by Japan’s central bank shows business sentiment has improved ...