The number of foreign tourists to Japan reached its all-time high in 2014. Tourism is now Japan's key to economic gro...

Hyogo Prefecture is home to a medical team that rides the helicopter to save lives in mountain communities that do no...

With exhibitions and events both in Japan and abroad, the moving calligraphy of Shoko Kanazawa is attracting global a...

For 5 generations, the family of Kosuke Kuji has run Nanbu Bijin, a famed sake brewery in Iwate Prefecture. Yet, as d...

Agriculture in Japan faces many issues including an aging and declining workforce. Hiroki Iwasa, the representative o...

Mitsuru Izumo is the CEO of bio-venture firm Euglena, named after a microorganism with enormous potential as a future...

What kind of life awaits Japan's estimated 10 million baby boomers as more and more of them enter retirement? Mio Kat...

Medical tests at just 500 yen per criterion; on-the-spot results; and advice from a trained nurse: all features of th...

With many traditional Japanese crafts facing decline, Rika Yajima founded a brand seeking to preserve such artisanshi...

Japan's unique yuru-kyara costumed promotional mascots are in the midst of a boom. And the maker behind many of the m...

Although Japan's long-established fresh fish industry is said to be worth around 3 trillion yen a year, a lack of new...

Takako Yamada runs an online English school based in the Philippines. Licensed local instructors teach students in Ja...

Becoming a sushi chef once took long years as an apprentice. Makoto Fukue turned this world on its head in 2002 when ...

The 1989 Hollywood hit Back to the Future Part II, saw a time-travelling DeLorean return from the year 2015, fitted w...

Recent years have seen Japan's fisheries hit by issues like global warming, overfishing, and a lack of new blood, wit...