The city of Kobe's Ijinkan-gai (foreigners' house district) is a hillside neighborhood featuring European-style houses built ...

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Some experts argued that radical measures are needed. “There is global competition for foreign workers, and Japan mustn’t miss out,” one expert said.

A potential foreign acquisition of Japanese retail giant Seven & i would be “heavily related” to national security, Japan’s economy minister Ryosei Akazawa said on Wednesday. His public ...

Elsewhere are words written in a simplified Japanese syllabary (hiragana), and also in another syllabary (katakana), generally used for transliterating foreign terms; both were developed in the ...

TOKYO -- Activist foreign investment in the government-led chip project Rapidus should be blocked, according to Japan's former chip policy czar, as the project struggles to secure significant ...

TOKYO – More and more university students are teaching children with foreign roots the Japanese language, and working to create places for them to feel comfortable. Amid a shortage of teachers for ...

Foreign holdings of US Treasuries surged in February by the most since June 2021, with Canada and Japan among the biggest net buyers during a month that preceded the bond market’s recent turmoil.

The number of foreign visitors to Japan in March rose 13.5 percent from a year earlier to a record 3.5 million for the month, official data showed Wednesday, underscoring the continued strength of the ...

Japanese Foreign Minister Takeshi Iwaya, right, and new U.S. Ambassador to Japan George Glass shake hands ahead of their meeting in Tokyo on April 21, 2025. (Kyodo) TOKYO (Kyodo) -- Japanese ...