The novel coronavirus pandemic offers the only plausible explanation for a spike in fatalities in Japan, especially in rural areas, since 2020. The Asahi Shimbun set out to explain higher-than ...

Japanese firms are feeling the most acute shortage of full-time workers since the COVID-19 pandemic, with more than half of ...

Below is a table showing 366 days of historical exchange rates data for the year of 2020, covering the Japanese Yen (JPY) to US Dollar (USD) conversion. Converting Japanese Yen (JPY) to US Dollar ...

Police in Osaka announced on Tuesday the arrest of 62-year-old Yoshie Hamada, who claimed to be the “creator”, in connection with the deaths of two men in 2020, Japanese media reported.

Japan's population decline is accelerating. The number of deaths rose by 1.8 percent to 1,618,684, while the natural decrease — the gap between births and deaths — hit a record-high 897,696, widening ...

The lifeline that Warren Buffett just handed Shigeru Ishiba couldn’t come at a better moment for the beleaguered Japanese prime minister.

Japan World Cup winner Yuki Nagasato, who in 2020 made history by briefly signing on loan for a men's team, has called time ...

Ibaraki Prefectural Police have arrested a 45-year-old unemployed man on suspicion of murdering his 65-year-old mother, whose skeletal remains were found wrapped in a blue tarp in a field in the town ...