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A Health, Labor and Welfare Ministry official. The ministry plans to cover tuition and living expenses for select international students from Asia studying at medical schools in Japan.

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I am American and my husband is Dutch. Our three kids were born and raised in Switzerland until we moved to Japan last year.

Hiroaki Asakura, a farmer in Aichi Prefecture, central Japan, learned how to be a green thumb from his father.

Masks are just one of the items offered by hundreds of vendors at the Setagaya Boroichi, a colorful flea market in suburban Tokyo with a history dating back 447 years.

Japan's ruling parties on Friday approved their tax reform plans for the next fiscal year starting April aimed at funding a scheduled defense budget hike through increases in corporate and tobacco levies from 2026.

Police in Tokyo have arrested a 31-year-old Chinese unemployed man on suspicion of stealing a tote bag containing around 40,000 yen in cash and other items from a woman on her way home.

Police in Sapporo have arrested a 63-year-old man on suspicion of assaulting his wife after they got into an argument over her putting his pajamas in the washing machine.

About a quarter of Japanese firms are positive about reskilling their workers -- seen as essential for improving labor productivity -- but only a

An 82-year-old man riding a bicycle died after being hit by a truck that kept going in Koshigaya City, Saitama Prefecture, on Friday.