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    • Wednesday, 20 September, 2023
      Leo Lewis
      Everyone loves a bit of corporate ‘malfeasatainment’

      Could the downfall of a second-hand car dealer prove restorative for Japan’s psyche?

      Maria Hergueta illustration of oversized fingers pointing at a mechanic who is standing beside a car
    • Tuesday, 19 September, 2023
      Sexual misconduct allegations
      Japanese boy band abuse scandal rocks entertainment industry

      Some of country’s largest businesses and media groups try to distance themselves from troubled talent agency

      Noriyuki Higashiyama, left, and Julie Fujishima
    • Wednesday, 30 August, 2023
      Japanese business & finance
      Japanese department store workers to stage first strike since 1950s

      Seibu’s flagship store in Tokyo to close for one day in protest at planned sale to US investment fund

      Pedestrians walk past a Seibu department store in Tokyo, Japan
    • Sunday, 20 August, 2023
      Leo Lewis
      Japan’s high standards of service face ‘shrinkflation’

      Waiting for pancakes in a Yokohama fast food outlet serves up a reminder of the labour shortage crisis

      Maria Hergueta illustration of a long queue of people waiting to order fast food.
    • Thursday, 10 August, 2023
      Global trade
      US-Japan whaling spat threatens Indo-Pacific trade deal

      Dispute between allies erupts just a week before Joe Biden hosts Japanese leader at Camp David

      A captured Minke whale is lifted by a crane at a port in Kushiro, Hokkaido
    • Sunday, 6 August, 2023
      Leo Lewis
      Japan’s elderly need protection from scammers — but not like this

      Categorising over-65s as incompetent in order to stop ATM fraud is a recipe for disaster

      Maria Hergueta illustration of a person standing in front of two huge grey hands - one held up to stop him and the other holding a credit card
    • Wednesday, 12 July, 2023
      Japanese business & finance
      Japanese banks accused of ‘gender-washing’ over women in management

      Wage gap persists as inconsistent definitions for senior roles inflate female representation

      A woman cycles past signage for Japanese banks
    • Tuesday, 11 July, 2023
      Cash is no longer king in Japan as use of coins drops sharply

      Turnround suggests nation’s long love affair with piggy banks is coming to an end

      Photo of ¥500 coins
    • Friday, 16 June, 2023
      Japan raises age of sexual consent from 13 to 16

      Reform also broadens definition of rape following longstanding criticism of penal code

      A woman holding a placard on which is written ‘No Means No’
    • Sunday, 11 June, 2023
      Leo Lewis
      J-pop abuse scandal exposes broader crisis of governance

      End of talent agency omertà shows how corporate relationships protected misuse of power

      Illustration of a singer at a microphone, with curtains on either side that also look like hands, which are wrapping round the singer
    • Saturday, 1 April, 2023
      Leo Lewis
      The disguised blessings of Japan’s demographic decline

      Business culture and employment prospects may undergo profound and beneficial change as the population shrinks

      Maria Hergueta illustration of an employee staring at a computer screen surrounded by Post-it notes, while another rises from his chair to follow notes that have turned into butterflies
    • Thursday, 9 March, 2023
      Sahoko Kaji
      Japan must lose its Showa mentality

      The attitude of my postwar cohort has gripped the country for too long

      Commuters outside Tokyo station
    • Wednesday, 22 February, 2023
      News in-depthNikkei Asia
      Japan readies ‘last hope’ measures to stop falling births

      Experts say next 10 years critical as prime minister eyes ‘children first’ society

      Sleeping baby
    • Sunday, 5 February, 2023
      News in-depth
      Covid fears kill Japan’s travel bug

      Taboos around spreading coronavirus and weak yen keep travellers home and industry ailing

      People walk through Dotonbori district in Osaka in December
    • Sunday, 5 February, 2023
      Leo Lewis
      Death and Japan’s nuclear shelter salesman

      Khrushchev once speculated that the survivors of the apocalypse would envy the dead. I agree

      Illustration of two people sat inside a nuclear shelter, inside of which is a clock approaching midnight
    • Sunday, 8 January, 2023
      Leo Lewis
      Japan’s reckoning with religious threats, real and imagined

      Abe’s murder has led to a crackdown on the Unification Church — and on parents frightening children with hellfire

      Maria Hergueta illustration of a Japanese woman dressed in gentle pink kimono standing at the entrance of a Japanese temple that is coloured red. The right pillar of the temple is cracked. There is a tree with a green canopy on each side of the temple entrance
    • Monday, 2 January, 2023
      Japan to offer families ¥1mn per child to leave Tokyo

      Government attempts to reverse decades of demographic decline away from the big cities

      A mother and her baby look at flowering cherry blossoms at the Shinjuku Gyoen National Garden in Tokyo
    • Saturday, 19 November, 2022
      Japan seeks wealthier western tourists to address China deficit

      Arrivals more than doubled month on month in October but Chinese tourists stayed away

      A Chinese tourist tries on a watch in the Ginza district of Tokyo in a pre-pandemic visit
    • Sunday, 6 November, 2022
      Leo Lewis
      ‘Degrowth’ — Marxism is back for the modern age

      A Japanese philosophy professor has scored an unlikely hit with a book denouncing unbridled consumption

      Illustration of a white pet mouse sleeping in an exercise wheel
    • Saturday, 29 October, 2022
      Leo Lewis
      Japan’s empty villages are a warning for China

      Beijing should take note of the risks posed by a property bubble and demographic changes

      Maria Hergueta illustration of empty houses with a line descending through them to show prices falling
    • Monday, 17 October, 2022
      Japanese politics & policy
      Kishida orders probe of Moonies after outcry over Japan political ties

      Former leader Shinzo Abe’s assassination highlighted connections with Unification Church

      Fumio Kishida, Japan’s prime minister
    • Monday, 17 October, 2022
      Japanese economy
      Japan hopes foreign tourist surge will offer upside to weak yen

      End of Covid-19 travel curbs raises hopes of $35bn economic boost from international visitors

      Foreign tourists at Tokyo’s Asakusa entertainment district
    • Tuesday, 27 September, 2022
      Working It podcast20 min listen
      Office slackers: the truth about doing nothing at work

      Every workplace has them. Here’s why

    • Tuesday, 27 September, 2022
      Shinzo Abe
      Protesters march on Japan’s parliament to criticise Abe state funeral

      World leaders gather to bid farewell to divisive leader who introduced Abenomics

      A protester holds a sign opposing the state funeral of former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe at a protest in Tokyo on Tuesday
    • Wednesday, 14 September, 2022
      Leo Lewis
      Pandemic fails to shift Japan’s attitude to employee wellbeing

      Stance on remote work can be viewed as resistance to broader change

      Office workers wearing face masks walk towards the train station in Shibuya, Tokyo
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