Asia Japan The Anti IUU Forum Japan - a group of NGOs promoting sustainable fishing - issued a statement to government officials suggesting measures to combat illegal, unreported and unregulated fishing
Asia Japan From this week, borders will reopen to 50 foreign tourists who will visit the country on organised tours in small groups of up to four people, an experiment to see how and when to fully reopen to international tourists not yet admitted
Asia Japan Japanese household spending fell in March for the first time in three months, although the drop was smaller than expected -2,3% - as consumers remained wary of rising living costs
Asia Japan Nearly 80% of Japanese think Okinawa's burden of hosting most U.S. forces in the country is unfair compared to other prefectures, according to a nationwide poll conducted ahead of the 50th anniversary of Okinawa's return to Japanese administration on 15/5
Asia Japan Japan and Russia have reached an agreement on Tokyo's fishing quota to catch salmon and trout born in Russian rivers, Japan's fisheries agency said, despite worsening ties over the crisis in Ukraine
Asia Japan A symbol of Japanese architecture, the Nakagin Capsule Tower in Tokyo will be demolished this month; the 1972 work by Kisho Kurokawa, counts 140 blocks thought as city-homes for workers and is the first example of metabolism architecture movement
Asia Japan More than 4.000 people have applied to become astronauts for the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, which for the first time has dropped the requirement that applicants have a university education
Asia Japan Nearly 200 Tokyo public schools are dropping controversial dress code on hair colour and underwear, after decades that the dress code was in place in the public school system
Asia Japan For the first time a court has awarded compensation to people forcibly sterilised under a eugenics law abolished in 1996
Asia Japan In his series "Flesh Love", Japanese photographer Haruhiko Kawaguchi - who calls himself Photographer Hal - has wrapped couples, families and even entire houses in plastic to explore human intimacy
Asia Japan Rising temperatures, heavy rainfall, flooding and demographics are eroding a centuries-old culture surrounding wasabi cultivation, making its rhizomes - already considered the hardest plant to grow in the world - more susceptible to mildew
Asia Japan Japanese auto industry giant Toyota, the world's best-selling automaker, has seen its profits fall 21% for the final three months of 2021 as global chip shortages hit production
Asia Japan Many professors are calling for the lifting of the border blockade on foreign students, which has been in place for almost two years; the government has declared that it will welcome 87 of the 150.000 students in February