The government plans to boost the rate to 45 per cent by 2030, but faces several challenges, starting with a decline in the size of the labour force and farmland. Today, Japan imports most of the food ...

TOKYO -- Even as Japan brings in growing numbers of foreign workers to relieve labor shortages, 38% of its municipalities had no Japanese language schools as of last November, according to government ...

Suspected North Korean ships have visited Japanese ports at least 38 times over the past three years, violating the UN sanctions, a Japanese magazine claimed in its recent study. The study conducted ...

Japanese people are known for following rules diligently and obeying the social and legal norms. The same characteristics were on display by the locals when the toll system crashed in the country in ...

A Russian Ilyushin Il-38 breached Japanese airspace on 23 September on three separate occasions, according to the Japan (MoD). (Japan Ministry of Defense/Janes) A series of airspace breaches by a ...

Japan has signalled it may intervene to prop up the yen after the currency fell to a 38-year low against the US dollar. Japanese Finance Minister Shunichi Suzuki said on Thursday that authorities ...