By 2050, Japan’s youth will inherit a transformed country, reshaped by population decline, longer lives and unprecedented ...

Japan’s centenarian population has reached a record high as the country continues to maintain the world’s longest life expectancy – a milestone officials credit to healthy lifestyles and fewer fatal ...

Japan has one of the longest life expectancies in the world. A Bengaluru-based neurosurgeon explains how discipline, ...

THE intellectual life of less self-conscious ages than ours has had no independent existence. Men have sought some other primary purpose, and given to philosophy, to poetry, to story-telling, only ...

Only 800 could crowd into the great public hall in Tokyo where the lottery took place last week, but 28,000 on the outside were waiting to hear the results. The lottery was no ordinary one, and its ...

For 19 years, Takehito Matsuba worked for two big corporations in Tokyo — Mitsubishi and Google. Like so many others, he reached an inflection point during the pandemic. Tired of working for big ...

For many, a smart city begins with technology. In Japan, it starts with a person. In local lore “customer is god,” and the customers of any city are its people. In the Japanese sense, being smart when ...

TOKYO, May 2 (Reuters) - Many Japanese life insurers, major investors in global bonds, plan to reduce currency hedging amid the yen's slump, as well as investing more in superlong-dated domestic debt.