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Is Japan Poor? Combini’s New “Rice and Sauce” Dish Sparks Social Media Debate

Is Lawson Store 100's new dish a sign of Japan's dire economic straits? Or is it just responding to consumer demand?

As inbound tourists are poised to cross the 40 million mark a year, locations such as Nagano's Kamikōchi wage war against bad manners.

As debate surges around immigration, new data shows some towns in Japan have foreign populations as high as 36%.

Many called the woman a bad mother and even an evil human being. But other overworked Japanese mothers sympathized.

A recent incident involving a tired rapper and a self-checkout stand reveals anxiety around the growing use of the technology.

Tourists aren't the only ones causing ire in Japan: incidents of badly behaved railway photographers are on the rise.