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Japan’s EF English Proficiency Index rank drops for 11th straight year, hits lowest ever

Casey Baseel
Dec 4, 2025
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What’s behind Japan’s continuing slide down the list?

Japan
(education • Education First • EF Education Eirst • English Proficency Index • linguistics • society)

Japan considering raising international traveler departure tax even more than previously reported

Casey Baseel
Dec 4, 2025

Tripling the current tax still isn’t enough for some politicians who want travelers to pay even more when flying out of Japan.

Japan
(COK • departure tax • Japan travel • overtourism • society • tourism • travel)

Is China’s don’t-go-to-Japan warning affecting tourist crowds in Shibuya’s Don Quijote?

SoraNews24
Dec 4, 2025

We assess the political fallout at one of Tokyo’s biggest tourist hotspots.

Japan
(China travel warning • Don Quijote • Donki • Japan travel • Mega Don Quijote • politics • Shibuya • SNJO.COK • society • Tokyo • tourism • tourists • travel)

Is China’s don’t-go-to-Japan warning affecting tourist crowd sizes in Nara?

Casey Baseel
Dec 2, 2025

We stop by to see how the city, its merchants, and its deer are doing.

Japan
(China travel warning • COK • Japan travel • Nara • Nara deer • Nara Park • politics • SNJO • society • tourism • travel)

Japanese police attempting to clamp down on “zombie cigarettes”

Master Blaster
Dec 2, 2025

Who doesn’t want to be a zombie that smokes?

Japan
(arrest • COK • crime • Drugs • society • Tokyo • weird • zombie cigarettes)

Is Kyoto less crowded with tourists after China’s don’t-go-to-Japan warning?【Photos】

Casey Baseel
Dec 1, 2025

No city in Japan is more symbolic of overtourism these days than Kyoto, so is the travel downturn from China having a noticeable effect?

Japan
(China travel warning • COK • Gion • Japan travel • kiyomizu • Kyoto • Nishiki Market • politics • SNJO • society • tourism • travel)

Number of foreigners studying Japanese in Japan hits record high, but are there enough teachers?

Casey Baseel
Nov 29, 2025

Students studying Japanese as a second language in-country hits historic high, majority of teachers are unpaid volunteers.

Japan
(COK • foreigners in Japan • internationalism • Japanese language • learning japanese • linguistics • society • studying in Japan • studying Japanese)

Sushi passed up by ramen in survey of foreign tourists’ favorite thing to eat in Japan, but why?

Casey Baseel
Nov 26, 2025

Foodies today might be the dishes in a very different light than they did a generation ago as sushi now sits in the number-three rank.

Japan
(food • ramen • society • survey • sushi • tourism • travel)

Is China’s don’t-go-to-Japan warning affecting tourist crowds in Tokyo’s Asakusa neighborhood?

Casey Baseel
Nov 25, 2025

With a diplomatic spat prompting a warning from the Chinese government, we go to see if it’s had any effect on Tokyo’s most popular historical neighborhood.

China, Japan
(Asakusa • China travel warning • COK • Japan travel • Kaminarimon • politics • Sensoji • SNJO • society • temples • tourism • travel)

Japanese government considering raising foreign resident visa renewal fees by 400 percent or more

Casey Baseel
Nov 25, 2025

Proponents say they want to use extra money to improve quality of life for foreign residents, strengthen programs to find and deport illegal residents.

Japan
(COK • foreigners in Japan • immigration • Japan visa • Living in Japan • society)

What would convince Japanese people to live in a home where there’d been a death or “accident?”

Casey Baseel
Nov 18, 2025

Jiko bukken survey examines the deal-breakers and deal-makers among apartment hunters in Japan.

Japan
(accident apartments • accident properties • apartments • COK • jiko bukken • society • survey)

Japanese government considering tripling departure taxes to combat overtourism

Casey Baseel
Nov 14, 2025

As foreign visitor numbers and overtourism concerns both reach historic highs, policymakers think they may have found a way to use one to address the other.

Japan
(COK • departure tax • Japan travel • overtourism • society • tourism • travel)

Hello Kitty learns sign language in newest friendship with Japanese artist

Casey Baseel
Nov 8, 2025

Sign language art-themed Hello Kitty pop up shop opens in Tokyo.

Japan
(art • cute • Hello Kitty • japanese sign language • Sanrio • sign language • society)

Top Japanese baby names for 2025 feature flowers, colors, and a first-time-ever favorite for girls

Casey Baseel
Nov 2, 2025

Annual survey finds the most popular names and kanji characters for new babies.

Japan
(baby names • culture • Japanese language • kanji • linguistics • society)

Reports that using -chan in Japan constitutes sexual harassment are at least a little exaggerated

Casey Baseel
Oct 27, 2025

Sound-bite version of legal ruling is an imbalanced substitute for a proper meal/understanding of the situation.

Japan
(COK • culture • harassment • Japanese language • linguistics • sexual harassment • society)

Is a love confession necessary for a romantic relationship in Japan?【Survey】

Casey Baseel
Oct 26, 2025

Men and women show a difference in opinion on how strongly they need the cinematic romance staple in their real-life love life.

Japan
(COK • confession • dating • kokuhaku • relationships • romance • society • survey)

Majority of surveyed Japanese teens don’t call parents by standard Japanese words for mom and dad

Casey Baseel
Oct 23, 2025

Survey finds loanwords getting more use than okaa-san and otou-san.

Japan
(families • Japanese language • linguistics • society • survey • teens • youth)

Four things not to do with recycling boxes in Japan【Video】

Casey Baseel
Oct 22, 2025

Coca-Cola Japan shows the sad transformation recycling boxes can go through if people are too selfish to use them properly.

Japan
(Coca-Cola-Coca-Cola Japan • drinks • etiquette • manners • recycling • recycling boxes • society • trash cans • video)

Tokyo’s Shibuya losing popularity as a place to go drinking, drops out of top 10 in survey

Casey Baseel
Oct 21, 2025

What’s behind the Shibuya slide as a spot to grab a drink?

Japan
(alcohol • drinking • drinks • overtourism • Shibuya • society • survey • Tokyo)

Should you flush a Japanese toilet with your foot or your hand?

Oona McGee
Oct 18, 2025

Toto gives us a guide on proper bathroom etiquette in Japan.

Japan
(etiquette • Japanese squat toilets • Japanese toilets • society • Squat toilet • squat toilets • Toilets • Toto • traditional toilet • washlets)

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