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For a decade, Vietnamese worker Minh did tough jobs like sandblasting ships and welding steel, helping address rapidly ageing Japan’s dire labour needs. But now, having overstayed...
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Japan’s Tamagotchi toys were a 1990s playground craze and the virtual pets that demand food and attention are still a hit among retro-loving Gen Z...
Business
A Japanese sushi entrepreneur paid a record $3.2 million for a giant bluefin tuna Monday at an annual prestigious new year auction in Tokyo’s...
World
Nearly 60 women lawmakers in Japan, including Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi, have submitted a petition calling for more toilets in the parliament building to...
Business
Japanese tech investor SoftBank said Wednesday that its stake in OpenAI is now around 11 percent after completing the second stage of a $41-billion...
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The Japanese government on Friday approved a record budget for the upcoming fiscal year, to pay for everything from bigger defence spending to ballooning...
Life
Since Japan recorded a spike in deadly bear attacks, Koji Suzuki has struggled to keep up with booming demand for grilled cuts of the...
Business
The Bank of Japan hiked interest rates to a 30-year high of 0.75 percent on Friday, the first increase since January,
World
When Takanori Kuzuoka began climbing the criminal career ladder, he didn’t fancy joining Japan’s old-school yakuza, with their tattoos, rigid hierarchy and codes of...
World
Hundreds of people across Japan will sue the central government Thursday to seek damages for its “unconstitutional” inaction on climate change, the country’s first...