Japan’s foreign worker population broke the two million mark for the first time ever, underlining the nation’s growing reliance on external manpower to mitigate its deepening labor shortage ...

In the past seven days, Japan had the world's largest confirmed COVID-19 infections and the second-most deaths after the United States, according to a tally by the World Health Organization.

With the call over, another line was added to a whiteboard's row of Japanese tally marks counting how many emergency cases had been refused that day: 29 by midday. The paramedic was looking for a ...

This marks the first time in 33 years ... will turn positive. The final tally was compiled on July 3 by Rengo (Japanese Trade Union Confederation), the nation’s largest labor union umbrella ...

TOKYO, March 21 (Reuters) - Japanese companies have agreed to raise pay by 5.4% this year, the second tally of annual labour talk results from the country's largest union umbrella group Rengo ...