society

Adults Become “Caregiver Shut-Ins” to Care for Aging Parents

A new health care crisis mounts in Japan.

Japanese Restaurant Chain Tests Smoking Ban. The Results…?

Nakada Holdings, which runs a chain of kushikatsu (deep-fried meat skewer) restaurants, decided to get a leg up on the law, and…

Logan Paul and the “Casual Racism” of Weird Japan

After Logan Paul's infamous Aokigahara video, the English-language internet woke up to something Japan watchers had long called 'weird Japan': a brand…