Japanese adults are exercising less, a recent survey by the Sasakawa Sports Foundation, a think tank in Tokyo, showed. The 2024 survey found that 69.8% of respondents said they engaged in some ...

Osaka will become the first region in Japan to ban people aged 65 and above from using ATMs while on mobile phones. The move is aimed at curbing phone-based fraud that targets the elderly ...

Public transport service providers and other concerns in Japan are introducing artificial intelligence to categorise and catalogue lost items and provide information on where to return them.

TOKYO -- This year, many people in Japan will stay home during Golden Week. This is mostly because prices are going up and to avoid crowded places. Read the full English article Read the original ...

"Because the inbound tourism is booming so much, hotel operators don't need to lower their accommodation prices, which is making it harder for Japanese people to travel," Tanaka added. A poll by ...

A Japanese influencer who accused Chinese tourists ... have been removing covers and tape to steal electricity. “Some people steal electricity from multipurpose toilets, and they do not come ...

The total number of Ainu people’s remains that were taken out of Japan is still unknown, said Hirofumi Kato, a professor of indigenous archaeology at Hokkaido University’s Center for Ainu and ...

The Nippon Foundation, which regularly conducts surveys to gain better understanding of the opinions held by young people aged 17 to 19 years old, ran a survey in early March 2025 asking 1,000 ...

Some Japanese people living in China have expressed concern that the trial did not uncover the reason for the attack on the school bus and other details of the incident. In September last year ...