The Economist

Sex tourists fuel outrage about vice in Japan

Mai is among hundreds of thousands of women working in Japan’s sprawling sex industry. The business, thought to be worth ...
NHK

Japan, Philippines to cooperate on export of Japan's used destroyers

The defense ministers of Japan and the Philippines have agreed to set up a working group between their ministries to promote Japan's early overseas transfer of used destroyers and other defense ...
The New York Times

Japan Is Used to Earthquakes, but What About a Big One?

For many people in Japan, the country’s regular tremors are not a big deal. Officials are urging them to prepare for the next catastrophic quake. By John Yoon and Hisako Ueno Hisako Ueno reported from ...
Just Auto

Hormuz closure halts Japan’s used-vehicle exports via UAE hub

Reduced supply across the Middle East and Africa may push vehicle prices higher. Credit: Scharfsinn / Shutterstock.com Iran’s closure of the Strait of Hormuz has disrupted a key route for Japan’s used ...
Al Jazeera English

Tokyo protests as China blocks ‘dual-use’ exports to 20 Japanese companies

Japan has strongly protested China’s move to restrict the export of “dual-use” items to 20 Japanese business entities that Beijing says could be used for military purposes, in the latest twist in a ...
ジャパンタイムズ

Microsoft Japan probed over alleged antitrust violation

Japan’s fair trade commission conducted an on-site inspection of Microsoft’s Japanese subsidiary on Wednesday over a suspected violation of antitrust law, a source close to the matter said. The source ...
The Daily Telegraph

Why importing a used European car from Japan is on the rise

Fastidiously maintained secondhand cars from the Japanese market have a small but growing presence in UK dealer lots Tom Barnard has worked in the motor industry for 40 years, starting as a journalist ...
CNN

For survivors of Japanese American prison camps, Trump’s deportation campaign has disturbing echoes

John Tateishi was just under three years old when he was sent to prison. He was never arrested or charged with a crime. But like over 120,000 other Japanese immigrants and Japanese Americans, he and ...
The Conversation

Held captive in their own country during World War II, Japanese Americans used nature to cope with their unjustified imprisonment

With a stroke of a presidential pen, the lives of Izumi Taniguchi, Minoru Tajii, Homei Iseyama and Peggy Yorita irreparably changed on Feb. 19, 1942. On that day, President Franklin D. Roosevelt ...
Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists

Nuclear power’s role in Japan is fading. The myths of reactor safety and energy needs can’t change that reality

On November 24, the Niigata Prefecture approved the partial restart of the seven-unit Kashiwazaki-Kariwa Nuclear Power Plant—the world’s largest, with a 7,965-megawatt-electric capacity—the first time ...
jdpower

Used Vehicle Sales in Japan Require Multi-Faceted Appeal to Meet Customer Expectations in Japan, JD Power Finds

TOKYO: 23 Oct. 2025 — Overall used vehicle sales satisfaction in Japan averages 683 points (on a 1,000-point scale), up 5 points from 2024, according to the JD Power 2025 Japan Used-Vehicle Sales ...