Tokyo is great, but have you ever considered living in rural Japan? 🌿 In this video, I explain how I ended up buying land in ...

Erik Buhrow dreams of retiring in Japan. Until then, he's renting out the akiya, or abandoned home, to other Americans who ...

Kanye West continues to shun America in favor of a new life in Japan with wife Bianca Censori, and he’s looking into the ...

After two decades in Japan, one Canadian man shares some differences between life there and in his home country. Ron Reid, ...

We've listed our five most read stories on The Mainichi news site, from top to bottom, that were published between Jan. 18 ...

Writer Hannah Kirshner first moved to Yamanaka Onsen to better understand its craft culture. Almost 10 years later, she’s ...

When you talk to a Japanese person in real life, they speak slowly and only use simple words. It is disappointing because I want to improve my speaking and listening skills through conversation.

The rooms are filled with elderly residents, their hands wrinkled and backs bent. They shuffle slowly down the corridors, some using walkers. Workers help them bathe, eat, walk and take their ...

A political comeback following a scandal of this kind in Japan is exceptionally rare. The only other governor since the war to return to office following a no-confidence motion was Yasuo Tanaka ...

Much like any other pop culture enthusiast, Studio Ghibli fans are eager to discover the Spirited Away real life locations in ...

A Chinese man who carried out a knife attack in eastern China last June that wounded a Japanese woman and her child and ...