Shohei Ohtani is widely regarded as the best player in Major League Baseball, and Ichiro Suzuki enters the Hall of Fame later this year, reminders that some of the top talent in American baseball is now Japanese. That's a point of pride at home, but also a ...

First, could you tell us about the current situation of people in need of Japanese language education within Japan? Ishikawa: There are currently about 3.4 million foreign residents in Japan (as of 2023). This accounts for approximately 2.7% of the total ...

Japan has switched on its first osmotic power plant in Fukuoka, marking a new step in efforts to find reliable, low-carbon energy. The site, which began operating in early August, is only the second facility of its kind anywhere in the world, after one ...

Over the next decade, the U.S. economy will face two big challenges: higher interest rates and AI-generated disruption. Each invites the same solution: policies to keep rates below their market level. The strategy, also known as yield-curve control, is ...

From event highlights to connections made, here’s everything — both planned and unexpected — that went down at Expo 2025 Osaka, Kansai, Japan in case you missed it. On Oct. 13, World Expo 2025, hosted by Osaka, Japan, came to an end after 184 days of ...

As Nov. 3 and the 72nd anniversary of the original kaiju, Godzilla, get closer, it’s time to revisit the past and the future and look at where the world’s favorite monster is headed. The big news is that Japanese director Takashi Yamazaki is not only ...

The unassuming Shimada Gama workshop in Gotsu doubles up as an open-air museum of traditional stoneware pottery. It specialises in creating large pieces that are burnt in a sloped wood-fired kiln. We talk to the 73-year-old master Shimada Takayuki about ...