In what experts say is a shift in attitudes toward death in rapidly graying Japan, donations of bodies for anatomical training have increased dramatically in recent years. Some 296,000 people had offered to donate their bodies to universities as of March 31 last year, compared ...

A public-private program has been underway in a Shiga Prefecture city to teach Spanish or Portuguese to children of migrants from Latin America working at local manufacturing plants. The program in Konan, launched in 2013, started after local officials found many children of Latin American ...