While not enforced, the city of Toyoake is encouraging residents to limit their screen time to less than two hours, ...
While Japan’s overtourism issues may be causing headaches for local residents, there’s one group that seems to be benefiting from the influx of people – deer. Specifically, the deer who live in Nara, ...
Modern Japan sounds like a sci-fi premise: the incredible shrinking country. Japan may have one of the longest national life expectancies, about 85 years, and the world's largest city, Tokyo. But the ...
Police won't be rounding up people glued to phones in Japan's Toyoake, but the mayor believes his two-hour limit can help ...
KUWANA, Japan--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Kuwana City, Mie Prefecture released two English subtitled PR videos, including “Rokkaen,” one of the leading tourist spots in Kuwana City, and “Deep Dive into the ...
A project in a western Japanese city has set a world record for the "most people decorating gingerbread houses simultaneously ...
The anecdote is one of several shared by Takaichi's hometown friends and supporters that render a softer side to the hardline conservative, who cites Margaret Thatcher, a divisive figure in British ...
Sanae Takaichi, a fan of Iron Maiden, had an improbable rise to power. Like her mentor, Shinzo Abe, she is expected to lead ...