Snowfall in parts of Japan has also left about 200 people injured. One city recorded 72 inches of snow, the highest in almost ...

Some people pay to live, but others want to pay to disappear without a trace. This is Japan’s Johatsu. A service where you can drop money to completely (and legally) disappear from the face of the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. My family moved from the US to Japan years ago. Living here has been filled with surprising perks, quirks, and challenges. Since ...

Many people dream about leaving the place where they were born or currently live and pursuing a life abroad. Usually, such dreams involve not some random country, but one that seemingly calls to a ...

People in Japan were swindled out of a record 324.11 billion yen ($2.1 billion) in 2025 in investment and romance scams on ...

Modern Japan sounds like a sci-fi premise: the incredible shrinking country. Japan may have one of the longest national life expectancies, about 85 years, and the world's largest city, Tokyo. But the ...

Life in Japan works differently in everyday situations. The differences show up in routine things like how people behave in public, how services operate, and how shared spaces are treated.

Video captured people gathering on top of roofs in the northern Japanese coastal community of Mukawa after a tsunami alert was issued for the country. An 8.8-magnitude earthquake struck Russia’s coast ...