Welcome to our new column, "Ask the Tokyo Dietitian," that provides expert insights on food and nutrition – tailored specifically for life in Japan. Whether you're ... Each month, she'll tackle common ...

Using common language development ... and feels refreshed by the end. Curious kids are the best kinds of kids, soaking up knowledge any time they can. For those questions to which you don ...

It was difficult to meet new people while staying in Japanese capsule hotels. Hostels were more social.

The number of people who killed themselves in Japan fell to 20,268 in 2024, marking the second consecutive year of decline and the second-lowest level after 20,169 in 2019, the health ministry ...

One of children's TV icons had his fingers doctored for the Japanese market for a chilling and surprising reason. In Japan the country's most feared mafia - the Yakuza - cut off their little ...

Japan’s population of children under 15 shrank by 190,000 from a year earlier to an estimated 14.93 million as of April 1, the 40th consecutive year of decline, internal affairs ministry data ...

Shin, for the first time, is the main host! He shows what an elementary school student in Japan needs when going back to school after summer break.

The speculation about Kanye West’s possible move to Tokyo has generated a lot of talk, especially about his reasons for the ...

But the IEA projects global electricity use by data centers could double from 2022 figures by next year, to around Japan's annual consumption. That growing demand is unevenly spread. Data centers ...

For me, the 7-Eleven experience in Tokyo summarizes the intelligence of urban planning and a culture of mutual respect.

The Great East Japan Earthquake on March 11 ... with the prolonged evacuation of residents drastically reducing the number of children in the area. The region's population decline due to the ...

An increasing number of women are choosing to remain single throughout their lives, while even those tying the knot are increasingly choosing not to have children. Despite the growing diversity in ...