With Japan’s population becoming ever more concentrated in Tokyo and the capital's surrounding prefectures, electoral districts are likely to be redrawn in ways that favor giving them more Diet ...

Kotobuki is one of three traditional day-labourer districts in Japan, called doya-gai, where men have long lived in flophouse-style rooms (doya) and found work at nearby labour markets (yoseba).

TOKYO — Local school districts across Japan voted with their order books Wednesday when they rejected by an overwhelming majority the use of a controversial middle school textbook that has ...