In August 1974, a 46-year-old man living on the fourth floor of a public apartment building in Hiratsuka, Kanagawa Prefecture, forced his way into the unit below him and killed two little girls and their mother. After attempting suicide he was arrested, and he told police he had been driven ...
A team of students, staff and parents sets out to run the Nakasendo, the ancient route linking Kyoto and Tokyo, ...
An employer needs a very good reason to legally retract a job offer they have already submitted, whether it be ...
Though their numbers have dwindled in the developed world over the past century, multi-generation households are still common, and in fact may become even more common in countries where income gaps are increasing. In Japan, multi-generation households have social relevance owing to cultural norms, ...
In almost all of Japan's major cities, close to 100 percent of the population are connected to public sewerage systems, but the farther away from cities you get the more the number drops. Tokushima Prefecture is the lowest, at 16.3 percent.
With the new school and fiscal year bringing plenty of new arrivals to Japan, here are some basic tips on how to use various legal services in Japan.
In the past decade or so, certain claims about Japan's housing market have come to be accepted as facts. One is that Japanese houses are only meant to last 30 years.
Spring is just around the corner, and for teachers and parents with kids who are moving on to the next stage in the Japanese education system, that means graduation season. MH has a question about appropriate attire for the big occasion: My kid is ...
It's often described as one of the most stressful events of human life — but in Japan moving house is virtually a breeze.
In a country where TV fare typically involves panels of posturing personalities oohing and aahing over each other’s exploits, Japan’s two national NHK channels are a welcome beacon of quality programming. In the past, NHK was often one of the few ways to watch ...
Filing a tax return isn’t easy at the best of times, but doing it in another country can be particularly challenging. Fortunately, if you work for a company and that’s your sole source of income in Japan, they will take care of everything for ...
The population is not increasing and there's a shrinking pool of potential buyers for the home you bought 20 years ago, or 10 years ago, or even yesterday.
After The Japan Times published a Lifelines column on Dec. 15 that focused on visa issues, we received a lot of mail from readers asking about their particular individual situations. We would like to stress that it is always best to have a professional look ...
I hope 2014 has started well for all our readers. Lifelines kicks off the Year of the Horse with an email from overseas reader Hannah, who has several questions about the Japanese education system: How often do English teachers administer dictation to their students? ...
In order to address its rapidly aging society, the Japanese government has enacted a variety of measures since the start of the millennium, mostly related to the health care system. A more pressing matter is housing, since so many elderly people will be living ...
