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Revised visa regulations aim to help interns unable to return home and who need a job in Japan.
Public health agency pleads with one group to take simple but critical precaution against heatstroke.
Liquored up naps, sometimes in car lanes, are so common in one part of Japan that there’s a new vocabulary word for it.
Three brackets make up the majority of financial expectations, but some women require a lot more.
Ranking reveals Japanese impressions of which prefectures seem to boast residents with the best personalities.
Service with apartments in Tokyo, Hokkaido, and Okinawa says all genders and nationalities are welcome.
Japan’s population continues to become more international, but the situation might be changing soon.
With stablemaster in poor health and out of the picture, new rules were put in place, prompting escape to karaoke box.
A pattern emerges in how creators pick characters’ birthday dates, with one day in particular being a major cluster.
Tokyo Metropolitan Board of Education continues mental gymnastics and insists that undercuts cause harmful incidents and accidents.
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