Japan’s prime minister joins female lawmakers in fight for more toilets in parliament

Japan’s prime minister has joined more than 50 of her fellow female legislators to push for more ladies’ toilets in ...

We started a website to help foreigners buy cheap homes in Japan. We've bought 6 homes ourselves, but it's not the money-maker you'd expect.

Two friends started AkiyaMart as a Zillow-like website to search for homes in Japan. They now own 6 homes in Japan, but the ...

A forgotten chapter: The stories of Allied POWs in Nagasaki during the atomic bombing

Hundreds of Allied prisoners of war were held in Japanese camps in Nagasaki when the U.S. dropped an atomic bomb 80 years ago ...

Japan’s Births Predicted To Hit Lowest Level Since Records Began

The total number of births in Japan this year is expected to come in below 670,000—far fewer than the official forecasts put ...

‘The best gift ever': Baby is born after the rarest of pregnancies, defying all odds

Doctors say just 1 in 30,000 pregnancies occur in the abdomen instead of the uterus. And Ryu Lopez is among the rare cases.
Adirondack Daily Enterprise

How Christmas has evolved into a global holiday

Christmas is a Christian holiday that observes the birth of Jesus. But did you know that the earliest followers of Jesus did not annually commemorate his birth? Or that Santa Claus is inspired by the ...
The Journal

Everything you need to know about Christmas

Christmas is a Christian holiday celebrating the birth of Jesus. But did you know the earliest followers of Jesus did not ...
Norfolk Daily News

Everything you need to know about Christmas, how it has evolved into global holiday

Christmas is a Christian holiday that observes the birth of Jesus. But did you know that the earliest followers of Jesus did ...