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TOKYO -- Japan's retail investors are purchasing stocks through the Nippon Individual Savings Account program at a record pace following its overhaul earlier this month, with Japan Tobacco and other high-dividend shares drawing particular interest.
TOKYO -- The number of foreign nationals working in Japan has topped 2 million for the first time, the labor ministry reported on Friday, as the country takes in more factory hands, caregivers and other labor from Southeast Asia.
TOKYO -- Japan is preparing to add four new fields, including road transportation and rail, to its "specified skilled worker" visa aimed at alleviating labor shortages in especially hard-hit industries, Nikkei has learned.
TOKYO (Kyodo) -- Major Japanese insurance firm Sompo Holdings CEO Kengo Sakurada said Friday he will step down at the end of March to take responsibility for the company's involvement in used car dealer Bigmotor's insurance fraud scandal.
TOKYO (AP) — Crowned Miss Japan this week, Ukrainian-born Karolina Shiino cried with joy, thankful for the recognition of her identity as Japanese. But her Caucasian look rekindled an old question in a country where many people value homogeneity and conformity: What does it mean to be Japanese?
A Filipino man accused of dumping a Japanese couple’s bodies at their Tokyo home has told investigators that he “was asked” to do so by the ex-girlfriend of the victims’ son.
Beer worth US$55.5 million was imported from Japan in 2023, up sharply from US$14.5 million the previous year and a mere US$6.9 million in 2021 and US$5.7 million in 2020. Japanese beer imports had risen to a high of US$78.3 million in 2018 but began to fall out of favour the following year, slipping to US$39.7 million, after Tokyo and Seoul became embroiled in a major diplomatic row over the two nations’ shared history that led to boycotts of Japanese goods in South Korea.