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Why Japan’s Disability Law Still Fails Disabled Students

An attorney who represents families in disability cases explains how gaps in the law leave some disabled students stranded.

In Japan, schools are supposed to make all reasonable accommodations for disabled students. One student says it wasn't so easy.

Japan wants more women to give birth to counteract its declining birth rate. That's hard to do when nursery schools are rapidly shuttering.

Following in the wake of the Nakai Masahiro scandal, another pop/TV star stands accused of multiple acts of harassment against staff.

The Kurdish community in Kawaguchi faces growing hostility, blamed by locals for neighborhood unrest. But how do they see it?

Some say the act was generous, but others question whether he should've established a trust rather than trust the city.

The city of Nagoya and the 2025 Osaka Expo may be instrumental in reversing a habit that the 1970 Osaka Expo helped popularize.

The existence at Expo of the carbonated barley drink, whose parent company is almost wholly owned by the Church, caused an online backlash.

Many people in their 20s in Japan continue to mask up. However, some say they're not doing it for health reasons.