Finally, a book on mastering sales in Japan! I wish this book had existed 13 years ago, when I started my career in sales here. It would have made my journey a lot easier. My employer interviewing me ...

Tokyo | Shigeo Hagihara abandoned city life to move to the picturesque Japanese mountain village of Ohi in the 1990s. Hagihara, 65, a former forestry worker, now spends his working hours fighting to ...

In Japan, you usually obtain a driver’s license by taking lessons at a private driving school which exempts you from a practical driving test at a police facility. After finishing the course, you take ...

It has been a decade since the Great East Japan Earthquake and tsunami on March 11, 2011, which offers us a fresh opportunity to mourn for the lives lost and look back on where we are with the ...

With Japan returning to a normal life after the Covid-19 pandemic, some people are getting help with something that they find awkward doing – smiling without a mask. At the Akabane-kita Elderly Relief ...

Isam Hamza was in the first group of students to graduate from the Department of Japanese Language and Literature at Cairo University, which plays a leading role in Japanese language education and ...

Africa will be on the minds of many in August as Japan hosts the seventh annual Tokyo International Conference on African Development. The two-day forum to be held in Yokohama at the end of the month ...

MIYAJIMA Hideaki (Faculty Fellow, RIETI / Professor, Faculty of Commerce, Waseda University / Director, Waseda Institute for Advanced Study) Governance structural reform is currently receiving ...

TOKYO -- The days of Japan's bad-loan problems are starting to look like a thing of the past. But rather than be forgotten, this troubled past should be carefully studied for the lessons it can offer ...

Three decades not lost, but offered chance to focus on enhancing internal stability Koreans often describe Japan as a country that is "close, yet far away." This expression underscores the notion that ...

Citing Russia’s war on Ukraine and its ongoing occupation of Japan’s Northern Territories, a former ambassador to Moscow calls on Tokyo to hold the line against Russian expansionism. Relations between ...