For Hiroshi Hiyama's latest contributions to The Japan Times, see below:
The LDP's Arfiya Eri is a young, female, multilingual former U.N. official. She's also the first person of Uyghur origin to run as a major party candidate in Japan.
More and more people are breaking with traditions on burial and mourning by swapping hometown graveyards for gleaming automated facilities.
Despite Japan's claims of high recycling rates and clean waterways, microplastics are being netted and analyzed off the country's coast.
