Many of Japan’s top universities moved up in the latest World University Rankings announced on Wednesday, with five, including the University of Tokyo, ranked in the top 200. In the …
Seoul – Nearly 42% of South Korean people now have a good impression of Japan, a survey by South Korea’s East Asia Institute showed Thursday. The proportion of respondents with …
Aboard Research Vessel Mirai – The Japanese oceanographic research vessel Mirai entered the Arctic Ocean in the small hours of Thursday local time, after passing through the Diomede Islands, located …
The number of babies born in Japan in the January to June period decreased 5.7% from a year before to 350,074, hitting a record low for the first half, the …
Japan had 2,567 children on nursery waiting lists as of April 1, down 4.2% from a year before, marking a record low for the sixth straight year, a government survey …
Nearly 20% of young people in Japan whose parents have been killed or left permanently disabled in traffic accidents are caregivers of family members, a recent survey by an association …
The number of ambulance dispatches in Tokyo in from January to July grew 4.4% from a year ago to 542,256, highest for the seven-month period since the statistics began in …
The amount of money stolen in investment fraud and romance scams linked to social media in Japan totaled about ¥66.02 billion in the first half of the year, exceeding the …
Many financially struggling households in Japan are worried about food costs during summer vacation, a recent survey by a Tokyo-based international nongovernmental organization showed. The survey by Save the Children …
Nearly 90% of Japanese households expect prices to rise a year from now, a quarterly central bank survey showed on Friday, a sign of heightening inflation expectations that would help …