In a country that ranks poorly internationally for gender equality, the new president of Japan’s long-governing Liberal ...

In 2019, Japan enjoyed its highest foreign visitor numbers on record, rounding off a ten year period of growth in the nation’s tourism sector. Japan’s 2019 Tourist Travel Boom in Numbers 1. The number ...

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Akihito, the eldest son of Emperor Hirohito (b. 1901, d. 1989) and Empress Nagako (b. 1903, d. 2000) is currently the longest ...

Japan hanged three death-row inmates on Tuesday, its first executions in two years, amid growing criticism by human rights groups of the country's use of the death penalty. One of the three, Yasutaka ...