The CSIS Japan Chair, in collaboration with Japan Center for Economic Research (JCER), cordially invites you to Outlook for U.S.-Japan Relations: Perspectives from Japanese Legislators. U.S.-Japan ...

In some cases, steep, deep decline. Maybe most graphically (and demographically) there's Japan: a country that, since hitting a high of 128 million citizens in 2008, has lost population for 15 ...

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.

Linda E. White received funding from the Japan Foundation and the Fulbright program for research on Japanese feminisms and Japanese family law. For centuries, women entering marriage in Japan have ...

Faced with shortages and rising prices for domestic rice, many Japanese are doing what was once unthinkable — buying a foreign variety. By John Yoon and Hisako Ueno John Yoon reported from a ...

Japan has been actively developing electromagnetic railgun technology since 2016, aiming to enhance its defense capabilities against advanced aerial and maritime threats. This initiative is part ...

A budding plum blossom, photographed on Feb. 15 in Futtsu, in Chiba Prefecture, during one of the 72 microseasons that mark the traditional Japanese calendar: this period, between Feb. 14 and 18 ...

Which is why I invited my friend Yuki Sugiyama, a Kyoto native, to go shopping with me on a recent Saturday when Marufuji Japanese Market opened in Vienna, Virginia. Launched in January ...

Japan was hit with worse-than-expected news last week when the U.S. announced a so-called reciprocal tariff of 24% on all Japanese imports, with the levy on Japanese automotive imports set to rise ...

Dressed in a kimono, Hello Kitty performs a classical Japanese dance at a Tokyo shopping center event in 2007. Once a symbol of rebellion and girlhood, the cartoon cat has become a cultural ...

You can get in touch with Ryan by emailing r.chan@newsweek.com. The Japanese government has warned of catastrophic economic damage and nearly 300,000 deaths when the next "megaquake" hits the ...