To understand why Japan is ready for reform, consider the view from a small town: Oyama is a beautiful village of 5,000 people nestled in the mountains of Kyushu. Below city hall lies a ...

Discover what it’s like for foreigners to live in Kofu, a small Japanese town. From community dynamics to cultural adaptation, this deep dive reveals whether outsiders are truly welcomed in this ...

Yoshihide Suga, expected to become Japan's prime minister this week, hails from Akita prefecture in the north, which leads ...

Japan deployed troops to the country's rugged north on Wednesday to help trap bears after local authorities said besieged ...

At a small factory in east Japan, a 24-year-old Vietnamese worker was busy cutting parts on an early September day the high ...