Thanks to the tireless efforts of an international team of women, an Australian program to tackle speech disfluencies is changing lives in Japan.

Last week, a simple hashtag kicked off an outpouring of guilt and humor on Twitter from Japan's foreign residents.

Stories of the Japanese people whom fate — and, more often than not, citizenship — brought before America's highest court.

Even taking 1965 as a false racially pure "year zero," mathematics muddies the homogeneity myth.

Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, long the champion of labor law deregulation, last year announced it was time to place a legally binding upper limit on overtime hours.

Western drag queens living in Tokyo, Kansai and Nagoya discuss the differences between the scene in Japan and back home.

Perhaps managers need to channel the spooky kid from "The Sixth Sense" and start seeing shareholders everywhere, because that is probably closest to social reality in Japan.

Portrait project on show in Tokyo is the result of months spent living as part of Hokkaido village community.

English teachers Jim Hickey and Douglas Forrester were offered a two-book deal in early 2016. But within weeks, Forrester was diagnosed with a brain tumor.

Something landmark happened late last year. Japan’s government undertook a nationwide survey of discrimination toward Japan’s long-term non-Japanese (NJ) residents. The Foreign Residents Survey (FRS), drawn up in 13 languages, was randomly mailed last November to 18,500 NJ residents. It was widely dispersed — ...

Confronted with hard questions about why they felt the need to adopt, the O'Briens chose to raise Sam, a child with Down syndrome.

A recent survey corroborates the stereotype many folks have of the Japanese worker: In short, their work is endless and breaks are few and far between.