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Japan’s Rental High School Student Project is more wholesome than it sounds, good for its community
- Casey Baseel
May 19, 2025 - Tweet
Program creates connections and offers help for senior citizens.
- Japan
- (COK • high school • high school students • moving • senior citizens • seniors • society • students • teens • touching • youth)
Angry Japanese mayor wants off-season Mt. Fuji hikers to pay costs of their rescue operations
- Casey Baseel
May 15, 2025
“They are taking Mt. Fuji too lightly.”
- Japan
- (COK • Fujinomiya • hiking • Mountains • Mt. Fuji • outdoors • rescue • Shizuoka • Shizuoka Prefecture • society)
Japanese restaurant chain installs tip boxes in response to foreign tourists leaving tips, sparks debate
- Casey Baseel
May 14, 2025
Beef cutlet chain’s policy attracting a new wave of attention as inbound foreign tourist numbers and consumer prices continue to rise.
- Japan
- (culture • Gyukatsu Motomura • restaurant tips • restaurants • society • tipping)
Japanese high school ends tradition of having all students walk 85-kilometer all-night trek
- Casey Baseel
May 9, 2025
Those kids are still going to be doing a lot of walking, though.
Survey asks foreign tourists what bothered them in Japan, more than half gave same answer
- Casey Baseel
May 8, 2025
Lack of trash cans once again is high on the list, but not the top response.
U.K. Pavilion at Japan World Expo responds to complaints about shabby afternoon tea quality【Videos】
- Casey Baseel
May 2, 2025
5,000 yen for tea bags in paper cups prompts two explanatory videos from organizers.
- Japan, UK
- (afternoon tea • culture • society • tea • U.K.. Pavilion • World Expo • World Expo 2025 • world's fair)
Number of foreign students in Japan hits record high, one country accounts for over 35 percent
- Casey Baseel
May 2, 2025
More students from abroad than ever before are studying in Japan, with a massive surge between the last two reporting periods.
- Japan
- (COK • foreigners in Japan • internationalism • schools • society • students • study in Japan • studying in Japan)
Foreign travelers’ lukewarm reactions to traditional Japanese inn food causing changes in Kyoto
- Casey Baseel
Apr 24, 2025
Classical part of ryokan culture is fading away at some inns.
- Japan
- (COK • culture • food • hotels • inns • Japanese inns • Kyoto • overtourism • ryokan • society • tourism • travel)
Tokyo government ordered to search for biological parents of 67-year-old-man switched at birth
- Casey Baseel
Apr 23, 2025
Four-year lawsuit comes to an end as court dismisses privacy concerns.
School suddenly changes field trip from 2025 Expo to Universal Studios Japan over safety concerns
- Master Blaster
Apr 18, 2025
Will more follow their lead?
- Japan
- (2025 Osaka World Expo • class trip • Osaka • safety • school trips • schools • society • students • travel • Universal Studios Japan)
24,000 Japanese drivers scrupulously submit payment offers after expressway collection system breaks
- Casey Baseel
Apr 16, 2025
Many more are yet to do so, though, and the toll collector isn’t planning to let them off for free.
Widespread anime support and expansion initiatives planned by Japanese government
- Master Blaster
Apr 16, 2025
Let’s hope they really mean it this time.
- Japan
- (Agency for Cultural Affairs • anime • COK • education • government • manga • Public-Private Council on the Content Industry • society)
University of Tokyo announces new department with all classes taught in English
- Casey Baseel
Apr 10, 2025
Japan’s most prestigious university adds its first new department in nearly 70 years as it strives for greater internationalization.
- Japan
- (colleges • education • internationalization • schools • society • study in Japan • universities • University of Tokyo)
Japan’s job-quitting service gets four new customers on first day of work
- Master Blaster
Apr 4, 2025
Sometimes, you just know it’s not a fit.
Japanese bar district to get bilingual wristbands to help start/avoid conversations while drinking
- Casey Baseel
Apr 4, 2025
There are more than 600 bars and pubs in Noge, and these wristbands seek to help you find one that’s just right for you.
What are you supposed to do with your backpack on a crowded train in Japan?
- Casey Baseel
Mar 29, 2025
“People wearing their backpacks on their backs” and “people holding their backpacks in front of them” both rank high on list of train riders’ annoyances.
Mr. Sato is sorry for not taking your compliment well
- Master Blaster
Mar 26, 2025
Our reporter’s done a lot of work on his outside. Now, it’s time for the inside.
- Japan
- (clothing • compliments • fashion • manners • Mr. Sato • politeness • shyness • society)
Japan abolishes skirts from policewoman uniforms nationwide
- Casey Baseel
Mar 23, 2025
After nearly a half-century run, skirts to no longer be part of uniforms.
A century of love – How dating and marriage have evolved in Japan
- Elliot Hale
Mar 22, 2025
From arranged marriages to dating apps, relationships in Japan have gone through a big transformation over the last 100 years.
- Japan
- (arranged marriage • COK • culture • dating • history • marriage • relationships • romance • society)
Is “Nagoya skipping” a cause of the exodus of young people from the city?
- Krista Rogers
Mar 22, 2025
Data suggests that a relative lack of live music and performances is a contributing factor as to why many young people move to Tokyo or Osaka.
- Japan
- (Aichi Prefecture • concerts • music • Nagoya • Nagoya-skipping • society)
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Japan announces sudden 400-percent increase in visa fees for foreigners entering the country
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